The legend of Australian swimming Cate Campbell targeted capitalism to conduct unrealistic beauty standards for women while hitting trolls that targeted it on its appearance.
Olympia on four times, 32, spent a lot of time in front of the camera by appearing with the media since she retired from competitive swimming last year.
Cate explained that she loves work, but seeing herself on the screen so much was aware of her appearance.
“Suddenly, I felt all my insecurities crawling back,” she said in an Instagram post.
“ A large part of society concerns what we look like and the people in front of the camera are very safe …
“I am 32 years old and I do not know what I am supposed to look like and when I am in front of the camera and that I look at myself, all that I can see, these are these wrinkles around my eyes or pockets or my eyelids or these lines on my forehead.
Olympian Cate Campbell says that she recently became more aware of her own insecurities thanks to the work of the media she does
Campbell says that she is 32 years old and does not know what she is supposed to look like ‘
Campbell’s Candide post encountered a wave of positivity of his disciples, but that also attracted the attention of trolls online.
The big swim has retaliated on them with a second video, noting that his message was not a criticism of the personal choices of anyone, rather a question of beauty standards that our capitalist society created for us ”.
“There was your basic basic trolls, which I expected in a way. “You look terrible”, “Oh my God, I cannot believe that you are 32 years old, you look more like 60, 50, 40” and it was quite predictable. “”
Campbell explained that she had also received comments from people whom she called “concerned trolls”.
“ They looked at me and they always thought that I looked like my age was unacceptable, but they formulated their horror in concern and began to try to rationalize and understand why I would look as I look at the age that I am, “she continued.
“I was told that I had too much exposure to the sun, that I should wear SPF, that I should not drink alcohol or eat sugar, that I should stay in the shade, that I should have all kinds of antioxidants.”
Some trolls wondered even if she smoked cigarettes and suggested that the former Olympian “ to lead an active and healthy lifestyle ”.
“Do you know what is one of the main factors contributing to aging?” Campbell said.
Olympian four times have made criticism of trolls online when you talk about the question
Campbell thanked the trolls, saying that they inspired her to continue doing the things she loves
“It’s stress and let me tell you, going to four Olympic games is very stressful. So maybe it has something to do with wrinkles on my face.
Campbell continued by saying that it realized that society considers aging as something we can avoid if we try strong enough, rather than a natural part of life.
“ It looks like we cannot look at people and see their value according to what their faces look like because we look at them and if it does not fit into a very small narrow standard of beauty, we think they should have tried stronger ”, she added.
“And I’m just not sure I want to subscribe to that.
She thanked all those who had sent support messages – then addressed the negativity she cut.
“ I want to give a bigger cry to the trolls or to the people who wrote and gave me advice ”, she said
“ Tell me to stay inside, to put SPF, to stay in the shade, to drink more water, to sleep more that made me feel that what my face was doing was a failure in my name, was because I was not trying hard enough or that I did not do the “good things”.
“I mean that you have inspired me to continue doing everything I like … so as not to be smaller by trying to integrate ourselves in this very, very narrow way in the way we, women, are supposed to look, and therefore how we are valued, because a large part of our value is based on our face.”
