19-year-old Victoria Erickson had her picture taken by a professional photographer when she was out with a friend in the market district of her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.
The university student looks happy in the photo with her friend, but she became upset when she noticed the appearance of cellulite on her thighs.
She said: ‘I'm so used to things being Photoshopped and airbrushed and I was like, "It would be so easy to just fix that, why didn't he?’
‘Well why is that the new normal?’ she asks.
In her blog post she wrote: ‘I'm not the cute blonde on the left… but rather the more prominent, jean-jacket covered, cellulite-charging woman to the right.’
‘My mentality went from "You look HAPPY!!" to "Yeah, you look happy... but why? You're fat.’
She soon discovered a new outlook on the photo, embracing the ‘flaws’ she had convinced herself she had.
‘I'm 19 and I've had enough. No more body comparison and emotional affliction. No more distress caused by preconceived notions of body image. No more to any of it.’
‘I let that little voice in the back of my head tell me that I wasn't good enough... I let the brain washing, nerve-damaging thoughts seep in and overwhelm my mind, allowing the thoughts to poison my spirit..’
The inspirational young woman finished the blog with a message of acceptance of her body.
‘It's actually OK to look at a photo and say, "Yes, I like this picture of my cellulite.’