Olivia Dunne, a college gymnast at LSU who racked up 4.3 million followers on Instagram, is accused of Photoshopping her photos.
According to John Dorsey, an Instagrammer, Dunne’s waist appears squeezed out from the back of nearly every photo in which she appears to be Photoshopped.
It is accompanied by five sets of photos, which he breaks down one by one.
In a shot of Dunne posing on a balcony, Dorsey mentions how the siding in the background appears to be crooked, as if she was ‘crunching’ her waist.
In addition, he claimed there was a warped door in the back of the shot, a bent chair, and crooked crown moldings.
According to Dorsey : “You have millions of young women following you,”
“It’s kind of your duty to not do this. These young women will want to look like you and you can’t even look like you without Photoshop.
“So where does that leave them? If you were just a small time account the responsibility doesn’t really lie on you, but in this case, millions of people are watching. You should act like it.”
While Dunne has yet to respond to his bold claims, plenty of her followers have expressed their opinions.
The comment of one follower was : “I’m glad you covered this,”
“She is the highest earner on the NCAA circuit and obviously has a huge reach.
“In a sport fraught with body image issues and eating disorders, having someone like this playing edited photos to look even more unattainable is reprehensible IMO.
“Women in gymnastics have been pulling together to combat abuses, with the exception of this girl. What a poor role model.”
Another said: “I am a gymnastics coach here. Young girls can feel so insecure, this doesn’t help.”
A third objected: “Stay away from her, it’s too late.”
In another instance, Dorsey was particularly criticized: “The gymnastics and cheer culture have a great negative impact on the mindset of young girls, almost like grooming.
“She worked hard to get where she is. She doesn’t owe anyone an unedited photo. Gymnasts often feel “big” or “muscular,” and what Liv is doing is not with bad intention.
“She isn’t pushing any program to buy. It is a parents’ job to teach their kids that not everything on the internet is real because it isn’t.
“Frankly, what she’s doing isn’t harming anyone, as long as they have their priorities straight.
“Stop caring about society and their expectation, then you will be a lot happier, and you won’t care about people editing their photos (Unless they are genuinely trying to scam people).”
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