In our society today, there are many young girls specifically teenage girls who love the social media platform Instagram. The problem that comes with Instagram is the people they follow and look up to. Many teenage girls look at their Instagram feed and see half-naked women or women with the idealized "perfect" body.

I just want to take a moment and say stop. Stop comparing yourself to the 6ft blonde haired woman, that appears to be super happy in her photo. In our society today, women and teens are pressured to look a certain way because the media is telling us what is socially acceptable in our society, but that is not true. Young girls need to see true role models and look up to women who are striving for success not striving for Instagram likes.

There is much more in the world than how many likes you receive on an Instagram post. I know at the ages of (13-18) Instagram seems like the most important social media app, and looking up to women who appear to be "perfect" on the outside is more important because that is what they are choosing to show you on their page and it makes you question your own appearance, and it needs to stop.

If you are a teenager reading this post, I want you to know that you are beautiful the way you are. The women or teens you see on Instagram that appear to have a perfect life, and perfect body is not happiness. Happiness is within and how you are as a person, and if you can keep that in mind, you will realize that your beauty is much more than a surface level of Instagram likes. Because someone who appears to be perfect on the outside is more likely rotten on the inside and that is something you cannot fix. So I am asking for you to stop comparing yourself, stop wishing your life was like there's, and stop idolizing women like this.

You are beautiful just the way you are!