At the time, it sort of outraged me, how people were Photo-shopping their content in secret. So even as I learned to alter my images, I told myself I’d use my power carefully. The class progressed, and I got into searching for Instagram versus reality accounts that placed celebrities’ and influencers’ untouched photos and unpaid paparazzi candids next to the edited images they posted on their accounts: realistic waists and jaws slimmed down and snatched, cellulite painted over, passed off as real. Yes, it outraged me to see how they’d lied. It entranced me, what they truly looked like versus
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