Those same researchers have called for social media platforms to highlight when photos of people have been digitally manipulated.Īnd while digital manipulation apps have a negative effect on girls and very young women in particular, Dr Prichard says women between 25 and 35 are likely to be affected in a similar way. While the apps are too new for any scientific studies to assess their long-term effects, researchers from the UK's Royal Society for Public Health have found the practice of editing photos is creating "a generation of young people with poor body image and body confidence". "Yes, idealised images that have been digitally altered have the potential to further increase the negative effects of exposure to fitspo on body dissatisfaction," Dr Prichard says This effect is worsened by image editing apps, says Ivanka Prichard, a senior lecturer at Flinders University who explores the connections between body image and health behaviour. I tried the apps, and noticed them chipping away at my self-esteem. (Beck says she doesn't use apps to change her body shape.) "It's very hard to tell from looking at someone's photos whether that's what they actually look like," says Beck, who is based in Melbourne and has around 215,000 Instagram followers. Instagram fitness personality Beck Lomas says body editing apps "have become so common" among social media influencers nowadays, it's almost the norm. How popular are body slimming apps on Instagram? Not wanting to go down that slippery slope, I deleted the apps off my phone after trying them once. I began to understand how, on a beach holiday featuring a few too many buffet breakfasts, you might be tempted to engage in a bit of digital nip-and-tuck. Once I'd digitally retouched myself, the "before" photos of me, which I originally thought looked healthy and cute, started to look a little unwieldly and dumpy to my eyes. I admit the result was compelling: with a few swipes and taps I started looking like a fitter, more willowy version of myself the type of woman who gets up at the crack of dawn to practise yoga by an infinity pool before running a half-marathon, perhaps.īut I also noticed the apps chipping away at my self-esteem.
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