These days, Instagram has become proliferated with fitness and lifestyle models who seem to boast impossibly perfect figures and lead even more impossibly perfect lives, often from tropical locales that many of us could only dream to afford. Of course, “impossible” is the key word here, as many of these models have a little help from the right lighting and angles and a touch of Photoshop here and there. Not to mention, all of the not-so-subtle corporate branding they to do afford such luxury.
Chrissy Teigen recognizes this, so on Saturday the body positive advocate took to Twitter to poke some fun at those so-called Instagram models. “I have been training to be an Instagram fitness model,” she wrote. “This is after one bag of tea and 5 reps of 2 squats!!!! If I can do it so Can U!!!!”
i have been training. to be an Instagram fitness model. this is after one bag of tea and 5 reps of 2 squats !!!! If I can do it so Can U!!!! pic.twitter.com/6IdVHPwMa9
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2018
As with most of Teigen’s burns, the joke was short, succinct, and to the point. As others chimed in, the mother of two joked back and had some fun with her followers.
Your results were SO amazing that I increased the tea from 1 bag to 1 box, but I could only do 1/2 rep on the squats before all hell broke loose. WTF?? 🤦🏼♀️😳😂 pic.twitter.com/bpFcNhhvaU
— Marsha Stoddard (@marsha_stoddard) July 29, 2018
keep going uGot this!
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/SampleofKarsen/status/1023379529719537664
yes any tea Lipton or earl gray good
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/jenatkinhair/status/1023512173048295424
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2018
As usual, there were a few who didn’t quite get the joke.
https://twitter.com/kwesi_nikon/status/1023498223678308353
Teigen naturally responded with her trademark sarcasm:
wow u got me
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) July 29, 2018
— Amanda (@wickedwif) July 29, 2018
Or others did it for her:
https://twitter.com/KingJique/status/1023378020017627137
https://twitter.com/monderlust/status/1023378970933383168
As usual, Teigen, Photoshopped or not, proves that she’s somebody we can all model ourselves after.
