Body Image, Social Media, & Beauty Standards

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode Georgie and Engrid branch off their original episode on</span> <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/putting-people-on-pedestals/id1465664059?i=1000484018440"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Putting Other People On Pedestals</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">-  and deep dive into the role social media and influencers have on consumers' perception of reality, desire to live an unattainable lifestyle, and ever-changing beauty standards. </span></p> <p>Trigger Warning: for anyone struggling with disordered eating, an eating disorder, or body dysmorphia there are two mentions of numbers/measurements in this episode. </p> <p><strong>_____</strong></p> <p><strong>IN THIS EPISODE:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Georgie shares more of the reality of influencer life, namely the pressure to document</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How social media/influencers contribute to this desire to achieve an unattainable lifestyle</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Engrid shares about how she feels when she’s trying to curate herself</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">She also dives into what happens on a macro scale when we are chronically exposed to “over-curation”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">We can be subconsciously influenced to emulate what we see on social media, and thus begin to live a life that isn’t really ours</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How social media impacts the beauty standard</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“Beauty privilege” &  “Pretty Privilege” </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">It