The male body positive Instagram influencer who ditched his six pack
He would visit the gym every day after running an hour back from work."One day I saw a plus-size girl on the beach living her life with a belly roll.Image captionMr Blaine said when he started his Instagram account bopo.boy he"went head first into the body positive movement and saw that there weren't any men".
"I want to be the role model that I desperately needed that could have saved me 10 years of destroying my body," he said.. Instagram said there had been 2.8 million #bodypositivity posts on the site and it was growing"as people connect with others and become empowered to share their real selves". "Every day we see people come to Instagram to promote a positive body image, redefine body standards and find their own versions of beauty, using campaigns such as #acneisnormal and #myrealselfseptember," said a spokesperson.
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