Fitness Blogger Sara Puhto Reveals the Truth Behind "Perfect" Booty Pictures

In the era of the curvy booty, everyone is looking for those Kardashian Kurves. But, as fitness blogger Sara Puhto recently demonstrated on Instagram, the bootylicious pics you see in magazines and on social media aren't always real; rather, all it takes to get yourself a little junk in the trunk is an understanding of angles.

In a recent post, the 20-year-old showed the power of knowing your angles through a side-by-side photo comparison. In one photo, the blogger stands normally, revealing a smaller butt—curvy, sure, but not of the Kim K variety. In the second image, she demonstrates a "booty pop" pose: A simple shift of her body that makes her bum look bigger and curvier.

In the caption, Puhto wrote, "[I]n a world where Kardashian's booties are so glorified, we need to remember that the photos we see of them and others aren't always reality...Their butts can't ALWAYS look that big from every angle 🤔 Same goes with photos on Instagram, we see them as goals and think we'll never be able to gain that much muscle or lose that much fat, but what you need to remember is that those photos you see are achievable, you can get to your goals, you can achieve anything with the right amount of determination, patience and effort! Don't think you can't because you're comparing a posed photo of a body to your everyday body."

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This isn't the only time fitness blogger Sara Puhto shared ~real~ photos on Instagram. Just last week, she posted a side-by-side of herself with a "relaxed tummy" and one where's she's flexing, to show how it often takes dozens of shots to get the "perfect" fitness insta pic. In a time of airbrushed beauty, her candor is refreshing. The moral of the story: Love your own body, because the photos you see in on social media, the pictures of celebrities we strive to emulate— they're not real life. They're just the work of a little photo magic.

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