This Model Started Uploading ‘Real’ Photos Of Her Life On Instagram

It gave us Insta inspiration.

‘These are the things that matter, yet we never share them’. She made her decision in order to show people the positive message to truly living their real lives. Very little, it turns out.

Instagram is place for nice filters, top-notch exposition, fancy clothes.

When she felt like enough was enough and that she wasn’t really happy doing what all of this, O’Neill chose to drop everything and to focus on the reality of life.

Twenty-four-year-old Stina Sanders from Bristol chose to unfilter her grooming diary for a week – no lies, no filters, no gimmicks – in a trailblazing attempt to empower women miffed by the apparently ideal world of a beauty blogger. But that’s ok, because who’s life really is?

“People were pleased that they could actually see it’s okay to be normal”, she told People.com. She posted no-make-up selfies, moustache bleaching, and even a quick snap of herself right before her colonic irrigation, and her followers began dropping like flies. Stina also spoke briefly about her battle with anxiety in one post.

Aaaand she quickly lost thousands of followers. Oh.

But since her story broke, her followers have surged to around 36,000 followers, presumably in support of her mission. “I thought that my followers would remain the same but I would get no likes, but the total opposite happened”.

And so she started sharing photos of all the stuff we never talk about on social media: hair removal, therapy sessions, dodgy feet. I’ve been judged all my life for being a model, yet when people get to know me they’re always surprised that I’m not the usual stigma that is attached to a fun job like my own. Instead of keeping in tune with well-edited, flawless Instagram pics, Stina experimented with posting real-life moments – beyond makeup-free selfies. “I wanted to see what would actually happen if I stopped posting glamorous photos, and shared stuff that you wouldn’t normally even share with your friends, stuff that is taboo, stuff that was quite crude”, she said in an interview with People Magazine. “So many people suffer – celebrities and just every day people – it’s silly that only recently, as a society, we’ve only just recognised the importance of understanding mental illness and the issues that it brings”.

Jamie Pine finishes his video with a few words that I would like to leave you with and for you to think about.