Bethenny Frankel NEVER filters her ikon . She said , " sure celebs say , ' I look this way because I do n’t drink and I sleep a pot . ' multitude are lying . See a celebrity or a [ Real ] lady of the house in person versus their societal medium , and [ the remainder ] is staggering . "
On the surface level, beauty filters and Photoshop may seem like harmless fun or quick confidence boosts. However, according to theHarvard Business Review, “Studies have shown that virtually modifying appearance can provoke anxiety, body dysmorphia, and sometimes even motivate people to seek cosmetic surgery.”
Social media can tempt us to compare the natural, unfiltered faces we see in the mirror to the photoshopped or filtered pictures that we see on our feeds. This has led a lot of people, in Hollywood and beyond, to denounce the use of filters or encourage a more realistic approach to them.
Here are 23 celebs who spoke out against beauty filters:
1.After testing a bunch of popularSnapchatfilters that all changed her brown eyes to blue,Selena Gomezsaid, “Literally every single Snapchat filter has blue eyes. But…what if you have brown eyes? … Am I supposed to have these eyes to, like, look good?”
She also notice that , while the dish filters changed her eye color , the distorted ones left them brown .
She enunciate , " I retrieve I ’ll just stick to the ' gram . dark-brown eyes are beautiful , everyone . "
2.During one of herLas Vegasresidency shows, Adele spoke to an audience member, model/nutritionist Jamy G, who took avideousing a beauty filter. After overcoming her initial shock at the filter, Adele told her, “Why are you doing filters like that? We don’t look like that, darling.” Fanspraisedthe singer for how she handled it.
divvy up the clip on Instagram , Jamy caption it , " What a beautiful moment shared between Adele and I. She call me out , and I was here for it . Lol literally speechless ! "
3.Bethenny FrankeltoldOprah Daily, “No. I have never filtered [my Instagram pictures]. … It’s desperate, it’s destructive, and it’s rampant. … Certain celebs say, ‘I look this way because I don’t drink and I sleep a lot.’ People are lying. See a celebrity or a [Real] Housewife in person versus their social media, and [the difference] is staggering.”
She continued , " The crack subtle tweak where someone look really instinctive is more annoying . You ’re thinking , ' await a moment — she has no make-up on , and she look perfect . Ugh , why do n’t I front like that ? ' … [ percolate paradigm are ] not the influence I want on my child or on other nestling . We have to unfollow — the incorrect people are the biggest influencers in this land . "
4.In anInstagramvideo,Demi Lovatocalled out the “unrealistic beauty expectations” that a beauty filter gave them by pointing out all the changes it made to their face, such as changing their eye color and making their nose smaller. They said, “Thank God I’m realizing this now, and I’m sorry for using them without realizing how dangerous they were before.”
She also said , " Thank God these were n’t around when I was 13 , but also … how are teens supposed to learn to accept themselves with this shit ? "
5.After fans toldFlorence Pughthat a picture she’d posted on her Instagram story had a filter, she explained that her phone “corrected” her face automatically. In a follow-upstory post, she said, “It was really fucked up that my phone automatically decided to make me the way that it wanted me to look.”
She cover , " I reckon filters are a really nerveless matter to have , and I ’m altogether aware that people do n’t of necessity want their ' imperfections ' and ' defect ' out there . and that ’s totally all right — I myself have even been known to use a few filters . But that should be your selection , and that should be your decision . And this phone here should not mechanically decrypt what it ’s been programmed to think is beautiful . … And I read a duet of message , and some of you were saying that even your freckle have been blurred out . And that ’s really distressing , and it is scary . And I think in a world where we see so much on our earphone and we know that so much of it is n’t really — it ’s really alarming that it does it automatically . … Be aware that this is only add to this circle of insecurity , and I hope that spill about it serve . "
6.Testing out a beauty filter on herInstagram Story, Lizzo candidly told fans, “These filters freak me out! If you’re watching this, I want you to know you got that no-filter beauty. The beauty that these filters give you is a nice thing — it’s cute, but if your skin don’t look like this, if your nose don’t look like this, if your lips don’t look like this, if your eyes don’t look like this — that’s okay…” She ended the video by showing her face without the filter.
7.Lizzoparticipatedin a TikTok trend where, set to “Humble” by Kendrick Lamar, users showed themselves with and without makeup and filters to promote body positivity.
8.While filmingEverything Everywhere All at Once, Jamie Lee Curtisrequestedthat no filters or other alterations be used for her character. OnInstagram, she said, “In the world, there is an industry — a billion-dollar, trillion-dollar industry — about hiding things. Concealers. Body-shapers. Fillers. Procedures. Clothing. Hair accessories. Hair products. Everything to conceal the reality of who we are. And my instruction to everybody was: I want there to be no concealing of anything.”
She carry on , " I ’ve been sucking my abdomen in since I was 11 , when you bug out being conscious of boy and bodies , and the jean are super tight . I very specifically decided to relinquish and resign every musculus I had that I used to clinch to hide the reality . That was my goal . I have never felt more free creatively and physically . "
9.In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Garcelle Beauvais shared an unretouchedInstagramselfie and captioned it with this important reminder: “I hope you remember you’re beautiful just as you are, no filter or makeup needed.”
She add up , " You beam just ok . "
10.OnRed Table Talk, model Paulina Porizkova said, “I make a point of not using filters [on Instagram] ever because that’s kind of my thing. … I am so delighted when I see a woman my age that looks like I do. … And I find it beautiful on them, so I’m kind of hoping to do for other women what some of those women do for me.”
She also enunciate , " The amount of , like , ' Hey , grandma ' that I get … it hurts my ego a little bit . But , at the same time , is n’t that part of the dish of becoming senior ? That we acquire more confidence because we bed who we are . And we ’re a little light with just telling people to wee off . "
11.During a fan Q-and-A for aSiriusXM Hits 1 Town Hall Special, Taylor Swift was asked what she’d tell kids growing up in today’s world. She replied, “I think kids now are facing such harder circumstances. The fact that the isolation and that rejection hits in real time. … It’s harder than what I had to go through, so hang in there, I have no idea how you’re doing it. Also, you don’t need to look like a filter. You’re great.”
12.Actor Mitaali Nag toldUrban Asian, “Using filters to make your skin or body change to an unbelievable extent is definitely wrong, and it gradually develops an inferiority complex. … I keep a check on what kind of work is done on my pictures or videos before posting them, and [I] make sure that nothing looks artificial in them. I make sure that my social media reflects the real me by posting pictures and videos in a raw or no makeup look mostly.”
She preserve , " I feel anything done in limit does no damage . So , if once in a while I use a filter on my picture or put up a professionally blast picture which has been photoshopped on my visibility , I do n’t feel I am setting a forged example , because I check that to equilibrise it with post more of my raw and real self . "
13.Emilia Jones toldElle, “‘For better or worse, Gen Z’s approach to beauty is so dictated by social media — it’s so present. I think it’s not a good thing that teenagers are looking on Instagram and seeing all these filtered and airbrushed images that aren’t real.”
14.In honor of her 47th birthday, Tracee Ellis Ross shared a series of unfiltered pictures of herself onInstagramand celebrated the aging process. She wrote, “I LOVE getting older, and I LOVE my life. … I’ve worked so hard to feel good in my skin and to build a life that truly matches me, and I’m in it, and it feels good.”
She continued , " I remain curious and docile and so it will all keep getting better . No filter , no retouch 47 - class - honest-to-goodness thirst trap ! Boom ! "
15.Sharing a no-makeup and no-filter video onInstagramfor the #UnfilteredChallenge, Tia Mowry captioned her post, “We all know the feeling. That pressure for us to always be perfect. You know what I’m talking about, the societal pressure for us to act, look, speak the right way… the list goes on. I’m here to tell you that you should always be authentic, be real, and be unapologetically YOU.”
" Whatever that feels and looks like to you , " she conclude .
16.Discussing her role inMare of Easttown, Kate Winslet told theNew York Times, “I hope that in playing Mare as a middle-aged woman…I guess that’s why people have connected with this character in the way that they have done, because there are clearly no filters. She’s a fully functioning, flawed woman with a body and a face that moves in a way that is synonymous with her age and her life and where she comes from. I think we’re starved of that a bit.”
She also reject to let production edit out her body in an intimate scenery or touch up her cheek in the promotional poster .
17.On herInstagram stories, actor/model/Love Islandcontestant Ekinsu Cülcüloğlu said, “I’ve decided I’m not going to be using filters anymore — no. I think it’s a bad example for all the women out there and young girls. So, no more filter.”
18.Testing out a beauty filter in anInstagramvideo, Jennifer Love Hewitt shared her honest reaction, saying, “I do not look like this. I wish I did. But I don’t. But I wish I did. But I don’t.”
19.In an Instagram video forLinda Ikeji’s Blog, actor Chacha Eke Faani explained that she stopped editing and filtering her pictures because she was tired of living a “lie.” She said, “Social media has brought about this level of scam, and I don’t want to participate in it.”
20.Influencer/author Chessie King Carter stopped using filters on Instagram because she realized she was “getting real social anxiety that [she’d] bump into a follower, and they would think [she didn’t] look as good as [she does] in the pictures [she puts] online.”
She assure theSun , " I started post the right images of me — ones that would make the cut for Instagram — but also posting I that did n’t ' make the cut ' alongside it . I could n’t believe how many girls said I was ' brave ' for doing it . … That made me pull in there was a real need to show this . "
21.Showing an example of an extremely face-altering beauty filter onInstagram, Jameela Jamil said, “Celebrities who use these feature transforming filters…suck. You’re contributing to the same shit that fucked you up. Stop the cycle. I beg of you. No likes are worth what we are doing to the kids.”
She carry on , " It also sets YOU up for aroused damage when you have to then regard with your own genuine face IRL . Nobody wins but the patriarchate when we do this . "
22.After taking a month-long break from Instagram in January, actor Madeleine Westembraced"filter-free-Feb" upon her return to the platform. In a blog post for9Honey, she wrote, “Terrifying as it is to face the cyber world without the cushioning effect of a few tweaks, unfiltering my Instagram has revealed just how many veils and disguises we dress the real world up in order to survive it.”
She continued , " This is human nature , but the reality is that by living in a well numb , blinkered state , there are myriad unbelievable matter we miss along the way . "
23.And finally, sharing a makeup-and-filter-free selfie on Instagram, Tyra Banks captioned her post, “You know how people say #nofilter but you know there’s a freakin’ filter on their pic? Or maybe there’s a smidge of retouching going on but they’re lying and saying it’s all raw & real? Well, this morn, I decided to give you a taste of the really real me. I wanted to smooth out my dark circles so badly!!! But I was like, ‘Naw, Ty. Show ‘em the REAL you.’ So…here I am. Raw. And there YOU are…looking at me, studying this picture.”
She continued , " peradventure you ’re recall , ' Whoa , she looks ROUGH . ' And if you are , large ! You merit to see the veridical me . The REALLY real me . "
