When Liza Parker, a 29-year-old from Ontario, Canada, posted a before-and-after photo of herself to celebrate her one-year anniversary of following Instagram fitness star Kayla Itsnines’s Bikini Body Guides (BBG), Kayla regrammed the progress post to her own 5.2+ million followers:
When Parker realized her photo had been reposted, she was completely stoked. “I’ve posted many progress pictures over the past year, and to see that [Kayla] noticed mine made me feel great,” said Parker, whose journey has been a long one. Riddled with body insecurities and an obsession with her weight, she used to eat restrictively and exercise obsessively, which left her feeling tired and weak.
While Kayla’s shout-out earned Parker some 3,000 extra followers over the course of three days, the response wasn’t all positive. Instead of applauding her hard work, many commenters on Instagram and Facebook, where her photo was also posted, accused her of Photoshopping the pictures and getting surgical enhancements — two accusations Parker calls “absolutely false.”
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