Personal Trainer Shares Honest Photos Debunking Perfect Booty Photos on Instagram

One personal trainer is setting out to show how lighting, editing and angles come into play in the Instagram world.

27-year-old Sophie Allen from Melbourne, Australia shared a side-by-side before and after photo of her butt, squeezing it in one photo and tilting it in the other.

“I have cellulite too and it appears when I squeeze my butt and disappears with the simple act of slightly tilting my hips out!” Allen wrote.

She went on to encourage her 146,000 followers to be proud of their achievements despite being discouraged by seemingly perfect fitspiration photos online.

“Don’t ever let instagram take away from your achievements, cause there’s a lot of editing, tilting, posing, angles, lighting and all the rest going on,” she wrote.

“We alll do it, just don’t beat yourself up if you feel like you see all these celluliteless peeps out there,” she continued. “We have to embrace and love our bodies as they are, whilst working towards our healthiest, strongest selves.”

Allen’s photo has received almost 22,000 likes, and the comment section flooded with positive responses.

“Yaaaaaas!!” wrote one follower. “Thank you so much for keeping it real girl.”

“I honestly can’t even explain how seeing this post with pictures makes me feel; I’m not a big person but I struggle SO much with body confidence,” someone else said.

“You hear a lot of really fit Instagrammers or YouTubers say what your post says, but just saying it rather than posting pictures with it is quite different. This is really inspiring,” wrote another.

Allen, who is known for sharing body-positive images with her fans, isn’t the only woman in the public eye who is embracing her body.

Earlier this month, Hilary Duff put haters on blast when she wrote a powerful Instagram caption about loving her body despite the “flaws” that “websites and magazines love to share.”

“Since websites and magazines love to share ‘celeb flaws’ – well I have them!” she wrote aside a photo of her in a black swimsuit.

“Ladies, lets be proud of what we’ve got and stop wasting precious time in the day wishing we were different, better, and unflawed,” she continued. (Read the entire empowering message here.)

Another actress who has been criticized for her appearance, Orange Is The New Black‘s Taryn Manning, shared a photo of her bare midriff along a self-confident caption saying people are too quick to attack her for her size.

“I have worked hard to get my cortisol levels down through meditation and self love,” she wrote, adding that she clapped back at a body-shamer in a previous video on social media. “If you saw my video earlier that was me reacting poorly combating a bully. Someone who won’t go away.”

“I love my weird little body and love your awesome body too. All of you,” she wrote. “Everyone is perfect to me! Everyone is beautiful. No judgment please!”