No, we are "Not Heidi's Girl"! ? An outcry goes through Instagram
At some point, everyone dreams of becoming famous. Then you ask yourself what it takes to get big. With all the casting shows, and self-presentation platforms like YouTube, it seems easier than ever. Most of the time you are the biggest opponent yourself: exaggerated demands and dissatisfaction with ourselves keep us from trying it out. Even worse, many media and formats even want to dictate what we need to be to succeed.
No more skinny models and Heidi Klum
The current BARBARA magazine is about fashion. Barbara Schöneberger gets her first own fashion show? also without model measurements. Scandal? No, quite normal! In addition, we show seven people who have found their own style because we think that everyone should be as he or she likes. There are many types of beauty. That's why we find beauty requirements like those in Germany's Next Top Model? not made authentic.
And we are not alone with that. Heidi Klum posted a video in early August in which she called "girls" to apply via Instagram. Applicants should post under # ichbingntm2018. The video has been viewed more than 600,000 times and the hashtag has over 4,000 posts.
What Heidi probably did not expect is that there would be a countermovement that has collected at #notheidisgirl after all, already over 200 posts. Here posts are posted, where it is clearly stated that the author rejects the format. The whole thing was initiated by an account called Vulvarines.
View this post on Instagram# ichbingntm2018 #iamnot # iamnotgntm2018 #notheidisgirl #notmycompetition #sisterhood #everydaybeautiful #grlpwr #feminismfact #vulvarines #iamnothereforyourentertainment #supportyourlocalgirlgang #girlgang #smashingpatriarchyismycardio #instagood #selfietime #happyme #follow 1. Take a picture of yourself on which you are all yourself are. In the photo you hold a piece of paper in your hand, which says "# notheidisgirl, because ..." and in a nutshell, why you do not want to be Heidi's girl and reject the format of Germanys Next Topmodel. 2. Post the photo on Instagram, Facebook and / or Twitter with the hashtags we used above. Which hashtags you use is up to you. It is important that you post the picture in any case under the hashtag # ichbingntm2018, so that it appears under the usual pictures for the qualification "Heidis Mädchen" and sets a mark. 3. In your post, nominate 5 more people (all genders) who join in the campaign within one week and post a picture. IMPORTANT: Every post that draws attention to the fact that it is not OK, which utopian beauty ideals Germanys Next Top Model represents and how it puts pressure on people of all sex, sets a sign and is therefore valuable! The more we are, the stronger the message.
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However, with the many young GNTM applicants, it can not accommodate the countermovement. If you want to support, make a selfie with an announcement against the format and upload it on Instagram with the hashtag #notheidisgirl.
Incidentally, we are also #notheidisgirl, because we find that beauty can not be measured in dress sizes. Especially since we have three different things in the closet? with one and the same body, of course. Whether thick, thin, big, small, gray or colored:
You are beautiful the way you are, do not forget that!
A hawk-girl group has started this - join in! #notheidisgirl #small heroines #vulvarines # ichbingntm2018
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