Instagram Model Digitally Alters Her Looks to Make a Point About Body-Shaming

To make a point about how trolls treat others online, body-positive Instagram model Chessie King partnered with Cybersmile, an anti-cyberbullying organization, to produce a new video:

In the video, King is happy with her body, but trolls swoop in with lots of advice on how she might improve it. With the help of photoshop, she continues to post pictures of herself taking the trolls advice. The results are equal parts horrifying and illuminating. It becomes clear the trolls have no actual interest in what King's body looks like—they simply want to make her feel bad and ugly.

Chessie's Instagram is centered around body positivity.

She encourages realistic body types and encourages people to distance themselves from trends and ideals that don't make them happy.

🐥 this lil’ chick is full of choc (swipe leftyleft to see me having an eggcelent time) • happpppy happy easter my gorgeous🐰🧡💛

A post shared by C H E S S I E K I N G (@chessiekingg) on Apr 1, 2018 at 10:20am PDT

Put your hand up if you gat the nerves to show your CURVES • for one night & one night only, we outta LDN, deep in the countryside 🌳 Half of the sky was hailing/chucking it down on us & the other half trying so hard to be sunny ☔️🌞 @thefoodmedic & polkaa dotty meee have escaped to the Cotswolds for a romantic spa getaway & it is so damn beautiful ❤️🧡💛 #wesnuggleduprightnow #havinganaffair #sorrymathewloveyou #curveswithnerves

A post shared by C H E S S I E K I N G (@chessiekingg) on Mar 28, 2018 at 11:59am PDT

King captioned the video by saying:

If we changed our body for every troll, listened to every cyber bully, we would be monsters. Whether you have 23 followers or 3 million, NO ONE should have to deal with regular hate online.

Well said, Chessie! After all, this is an image no one wants to see.

If we changed our body for every troll, listened to every cyber bully, we would be monsters. Whether you have 23 followers or 3 million, NO ONE should have to deal with regular hate online. Watch my highlighted stories to see how my body ended up looking like this • #TrollingIsUgly not you ❤️🧡💛

A post shared by C H E S S I E K I N G (@chessiekingg) on Apr 11, 2018 at 12:36pm PDT

H/T - Indy 100, YouTube