Insta posts can be a bit like John and Mary from Father Ted. That pretend moment, as the shop door opens, that all is harmonious, to keep up appearances. ‘Hello Father.
Mary was just washing my hair,’ says John to Father Ted as she pulls his head from a bucket of water. This week, former Miss Universe Ireland, Roz Purcell, let us in on the story behind the picture to lift the veil on the toxic nature of Instagram perfectionism. ‘Killing each other before and after this photo was taken,’ she confesses beside an image of herself in a bikini with rose tinted glasses (literally and figuratively) on a beach in Maui, Hawaii, looking all loved up with beau Zach Desmond.
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