The Bachelor’s Keira Maguire slams influencers who Photoshop themselves to look WORSE for attention

It’s no secret that many Instagram influencers use photo-editing apps to hide their physical imperfections from fans.

But former Bachelor star Keira Maguire believes there are some social media stars who use these apps to enhance their flaws, simply to gain attention.

The 35-year-old explained on the After 20 podcast: ‘There are a lot of attention seekers [on Instagram] and I see that behaviour a lot. That’s probably the only thing that annoys me on social media.’

‘Even those accounts that have the cellulite and stuff like that, they’ve edited those photos to make them look worse,’ she added.

‘Like, I physically watched edit their photos to make their cellulite look worse, because they know it gets engagement.’ 

A frustrated Keira insisted these so-called ‘body positivity’ influencers ‘don’t really care’ about promoting realistic beauty standards.

‘That person is only doing that for the likes and the engagement, because they know it works,’ she declared.

Annoyed: ‘Even those accounts that have the cellulite and stuff like that, they’ve edited those photos to make them look worse,’ Keira said on the After 20 podcast this week

Keira insisted that enhancing flaws with Photoshop isn’t ‘healthy’, even if it does help to promote body positivity ‘in some small way’. 

‘What I’m trying to say is, don’t believe everything you see. Whether it’s good or bad. Instagram is not real at all,’ she said. 

‘But what you can do is control what you’re following and the way you’re looking at it.’ 

Hitting out: Keira insisted that enhancing flaws with Photoshop isn’t ‘healthy’, even if it does help to promote body positivity ‘in some small way’

Keira, who boasts more than 140,000 Instagram followers, has previously spoken of her love-hate relationship with social media filters. 

The influencer, who shot to fame after appearing on Richie Strahan’s season of The Bachelor in 2016, told Popsugar last year she sees filters as a way to ‘shield her energy’ rather than to make herself look more attractive.

‘I feel like an Instagram filter protects my energy. I know that sounds really weird. But I feel like because I do give people so much access to myself, there needs to be some sort of filter to protect myself,’ she explained.

Instagram vs reality: Keira, who boasts more than 140,000 Instagram followers, has previously spoken of her love-hate relationship with social media filters. Keira is pictured left in an edited Instagram selfie, and right in an unedited cast photo for Bachelor in Paradise 2018 

‘When you’re in this kind of industry, you do have a lot of people talking about you so you need some form of protection,’ she said.

In October, Keira said the only reason she uses Instagram is because it’s her ‘job’.   

‘To be honest with you, it is my job and it is how I make money. If I had a choice, I would probably, I probably wouldn’t use it,’ she revealed on SBS’s Insight.

Shield: The influencer, who shot to fame after appearing on Richie Strahan’s season of The Bachelor in 2016, told Popsugar last year she sees filters as a way to ‘shield her energy’ rather than to make herself look more attractive

No choice: In October, Keira said the only reason she uses Instagram is because it’s her ‘job’