I Hate When People Say I Photoshop Myself

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“I hate when people say I Photoshop myself,” the 19-year-old Instagram bikini model tells me over lunch. Her name is Alexis Ren, and she is confidently explaining how she looks the same on Instagram as she does in person. With long blonde hair, suntanned skin, and a waist so small in circumference it appears to defy the laws of physics, she is a flawlessly filtered bikini body come to life. And she knows it. “Like, ha!” she exclaims, describing the feeling when haters finally see her in real life or on Snapchat. “I do work this hard, and I have this

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