Extreme weight loss blogger shows what's behind her 'selfie'
Simone Anderson, an Australian makeup artist, is literally half the woman she used to be. Despite this amazing accomplishment, she still experienced the ugly side of the internet.
Over the past 11 months, Anderson has been documenting her body transformation; from 169kg to 83.85kg (which equals out to around 375 to 185 lbs). That's nearly 200 lbs!
She posted this inspiring Instagram of herself, showing her incredible before and after transformation:
A post shared by Simone Anderson (@simone_anderson) on Jul 10, 2015 at 1:19pm PDT
While Anderson did receive mostly inspiring and encouraging comments, the negative overshadowed the good for her. A slew of internet trolls wrote comments calling the photos fake, asking where her extra skin was, why her hair was different, why her phone was different...basically doubting Anderson for ridiculous reasons.
Anderson was fed up by the negative comment, so a few days later, she posted this Instagram:
A post shared by Simone Anderson (@simone_anderson) on Jul 12, 2015 at 4:54pm PDT
While we think both versions of Anderson's Instagrams are beautiful, the more important issue is our society's strange obsession with internet body shaming.
Let people tweet, Instagram, and post all the 'selfies' they want — the beautiful thing about the internet is with one simple click you can "unfollow," no harm done.
See how celebs respond to body shamers:
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