But here’s the thing. The static, glossy images on the cover of those magazines? They’re not real. I don’t just mean that they’re intensely photoshopped, though of course they are. I mean that they’re not living, breathing humans like you and me. They are snapshots; tiny moments frozen in time and then drastically altered on the computer. In real life we don’t exist that way. We grow and change every day of our lives.
