Plus-sized models reveal just how much Photoshop can change your body

“Swipe for reality.”

With these three words, Diana Sirokai and Callie Thorpe are sending a powerful message to women: don't believe everything you see on social media.

The plus-sized models and friends recently posted two black and white photos to Instagram — one edited using Photoshop and the other left untouched — to show just how much of a difference the tool can make.

And, the stark difference has left many gobsmacked.

“It’s no wonder women are laden with insecurities,” Thorpe writes in the post. “For years we have been subjected to perfect airbrushed and often altered images across the media.”

She continues that while photoshop “has its place” in some industries, it can also be used to the “extreme”. “It just goes to show how much we can really alter ourselves,” she adds.

Thorpe says she thinks they look “perfect just as we are” but wanted to show women that “it’s okay to look ‘normal’ to have cellulite, stretch marks and tummies that aren’t flat and toned”.

Sirokai also posted the image on her own Instagram, saying they hoped to show women “how magazines  and the media takes editing to a different level”.

“Models and celebrities do not even look like themselves,” she adds. “We live in such a fake world it’s time to bring real back.”

Together the women have over 600,000 followers. Some of whom were shocked at the difference between the two images.

“How did they even do this? I’m shocked,” one person wrote.

However, others have praised the women, suggesting they look better in the unedited image.

“I think y’all are way more beautiful without the photoshop, y’all are straight goddesses,” wrote one follower.

“I much prefer you with those wonderful curves,” wrote another.

“Actually, you look incredible in the original one.”