Plus Size Model Robyn Lawley Shows That Angles Are Everything

We’re told to “know our angles,” and no one understands that concept better than a professional model. Robyn Lawley, a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue star and the first plus-size model to be shot for Australian Vogue, demonstrated that angles can change everything when she posted two selfies to her Instagram on Thursday.

In the first, the 27-year-old Aussie is posing with her hips tilted back and to the side, giving the illusion of a thinner torso. “My ‘Back in Brooklyn’ lingerie set from @weloveshag #handmade,” she captioned the photo, in which she’s wear a bra-and-panties set.

In the second image, the model is posing straight toward the camera — no tilts, twists, or strategic angling. She captioned the second photo, in part, “Angles, retouching, position all can dramatically change a body. I’m content with my body and I only eat high quality local food, a lot I grew myself.”

Lawley goes on to suggest eating locally sourced food and even growing your own food, like she does, to stay healthy. “I believe the highest quality food is what is key, it’s so rich you don’t eat much and you need to eat a lot of local seasonal vegetables,” she writes. Lawley is the latest major name to come forward to prove that bodies don’t need to look flawless to be beautiful.

Fellow model Iskra Lawrence proved that thigh gaps could be totally faked with the right pose and a manipulated angle when she did just that on Instagram. Lawrence, also a plus-size model, posted side-by-side shots on Instagram to prove that she could create space where there is no space.

She captioned the photo, “no thigh gap or thigh gap who cares. We all think we want different things and we should because we are all different, there’s no wrong way just be the healthiest & happiest for you. I’ll be the first one to tell you pics are all about good lightening and angles. Always remember social medias not real life never let anyone else’s pics make you feel insecure about yourself. If you don’t look like her and she doesn’t look like you that’s how it’s meant to be. You are meant to be YOU no one else, your body is your home so love and respect it. When you look after it beautiful things happens.”

Both Lawley and Lawrence are body positivity advocates. Lawley spoke out to Sports Illustrated calling the one-size-fits-all body-image standard “stupid” and talking about how she intends to teach her daughter Ripley, to love her body. “I don’t want her freaking out about her weight. She’s going to be tall and curvy like me, I can already see it. She’s a three-year-old-sized month-old. Weight is so mind-numbingly dumb to worry about, unless it’s to a point where it’s affecting your health,” Lawley told the publication.

Lawrence, who has overcome an eating disorder, has taught classes on body confidence, routinely writes missives on social media to remind her fans to have body confidence, was instrumental in getting Self Magazine’s restrictive New Year weight-loss diet pulled, and once Photoshopped her own body to show how easy and deceiving images can be. “It only took me about 10 minutes to photoshop myself to ‘perfection’. But WTF is perfect?,” she wrote.

But it’s not just plus-size models spreading the body positivity around. Fitness blogger Anna Victoria posted spliced images to Instagram in May, showing her toned body standing up, and then her fleshy belly while sitting down. She wrote, “Picture on the left was taken one day before the wedding and the picture on the right was taken… 2 minutes after! Someone recently said to me that we all have our good angles and we all have our bad angles, so why do we let our bad angles carry so much more weight than our good angles? If you focus on how bad you look in the bad angles, at least focus on how good you look in the good ones too!!”.

Another fitness blogger, Sarah Puhto, posted side-by-side shots to her Instagram a month ago to show that even the Kardashians use angles to make their best assets look even better. She wrote, in part, “Since its #humpday I thought it would be appropriate to post a booty pic. I thought I’d show my booty from its normal straight leg standing position vs a posed booty pop position cause in a world where the Kardashian’s bootys 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.”

Puhto reprised the message a week ago, but this time it was to demonstrate what a difference a day of eating can make. “24 hour transformation photo- Christmas edition,” she captioned the three photos, which showed her gradually de-bloat. “First photo was taken in the morning after waking up. The second photo was 8 hours after the first and after eating a whole bunch of delicious Christmas food and a having a few drinks. And the third was taken 24 hours after, just after waking up, no workout in between these photos and no flexing/sucking my tummy in. I’m sorry these photos look kind of cringe, they’re taken from my least flattering angle,” she wrote.

And in a Facebook post last month, Foodie Girl Fitness, a.k.a. Ashlie Molstad, posted two photos that show that the simple act of sitting down can make a person look less fit. “Same girl. Different angles,” she wrote. “If I’m going to show you the posed, put together, professional sides of me, I’m gonna make damn sure you see the not so flattering sides too. Because, contrary to what society has taught us to think, our worth isn’t measured by how many belly rolls we have, or how many dimples on our booty, or how much jiggle hangs out on our arms.”

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