A new generation of moms are editing pictures of their kids in hurtful ways. Here, three young women reveal what it’s like to be under their mothers’ thumbs—literally.\xa0 |
When Sabrina Coleman was in high school, she went through her mother’s phone in search of photos of herself. When she found them, something seemed…off.
“I was like, ‘Oh, my skin's a little pale and very smooth,” Coleman recalls. All the photos, she realized, had been edited to lighten her skin tone and erase her acne. She and her mother use completely different social media platforms, so until this moment Coleman wasn’t aware that her mom was editing photos of her before she posted them. \xa0 She brushed it off, but a few years later—when Coleman was 20 and experiencing weight fluctuations through college—it happened again. She discovered a photo her mother posted online in which her face and arms were digitally slimmed.\xa0 |
“That was the first time [to my knowledge] she more drastically edited my body,” she recalls. |
Coleman, now 22, recently went viral on TikTok for sharing the experience of having what she calls a “Facetune mom.” The video, which shows some of these photos before and after her mother’s digital editing, received over one million views and thousands of comments from people who were saddened by Coleman's story. \xa0 Even more surprising, however, is how many people could relate. \xa0 Read the full storyto learn more about the impact photo editing has had on this generation's body image. |
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