AIBU to feel society nowadays just makes you feel inadequate physically?

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Everyone wherever you look on TV/social media, and just in general in life with perfect straight white teeth, Botox, all manner of fillers, etc etc
I used to feel pretty confident about my appearance despite not looking perfectly model Iike. Fast forward a few years and now I feel I am hideous having all these imperfections! Please tell me others feel this way!

I think the longer you spend on social media the worse you can feel. I’m only 30 but see women at work age ~21 obsessing about their appearance because they don’t look like their favourite instagram influencer. Fact it, no one looks like that in real life. I bet you’re more gorgeous than the people who feel insecure enough to put lots of Botox and filler in their bodies :(

How old are you?

I'm 47 and haven't had any cosmetic work done. I don't even dye the grey hairs that have started to appear 🤣

I feel fine about how I look. Some of my female friends have had work. Most haven't. I don't use Instagram or other SM (I do have Facebook) so don't see a lot of filtered/filler-ed women to compare myself to.

So get yourself some botox, fillers and straight white teeth then. I think the most concerning thing is that your mind has been warped to such an extent that you find that stuff beautiful.

I am 53 and I dont feel this way.
I havent got any Botox or fillers or teeth done..I think I look fine. Not stunning but fine.
I don't use SM much and I would rather watch paint dry than follow any influencers.

You can simply decide not to feel that way. I know she's gone conspiracy theorist now, but I read Naomi Wolf's 'The Beauty Myth' when I was about 18 and the scales fell from my eyes.

I am definitely not naturally beautiful but I refuse to tag my self worth to something there's a huge corporate imperative for me to feel bad about.

Nope.
Everyone wherever you look on TV/social media, and just in general in life with perfect straight white teeth, Botox, all manner of fillers, etc etc

I'm not really seeing this on the TV I watch. Though I do see some young women who would be naturally nice looking who look weirdly artificial with pumped up fat lips, unnatural eyebrows etc. They don't look as good as they would without it now, and I'm pretty sure they won't as they get older.

When did ordinary women want to look like celebs? I have no desire to look like the women on TV. It would be out of place in my ordinary life with my ordinary husband.

I honestly think it's such a British thing .. disclaimer. I don't live in Britain but I follow British newS

Women's magazines used to make me feel like that so I stopped reading them. You have to remember that the beauty industry is worth billions and billions is spent on making you buy stuff.

I really recommend the Beauty Myth.

Most of em look shocking and their plastic surgeons/ aesthetic practitioners should be struck off.

But the botox and fillers all look dreadful as do the white knashers. I wince every time i look at Rylan. It's all emperors clothes.

Was in a museum the other day, societal norms back in this day told women that big foreheads were the thing, as a consequence women plucked and plucked and ended up like this... don't play the game.

Don't pay attention to the trash tv or media. You'll be happier.