My (21M) girlfriend (19F) Photoshops her Instagram pictures for hours and it’s a major turnoff for me

My girlfriend fits the mold of the typical blonde sorority girl who goes out all the time and posts Snapchat stories with girls she later says she can’t stand. I’m her first ever boyfriend of a long line of thirsty boys who’d invite her over to have sex then never talk to her again unless they’re horny.

Of course, I don’t see her that way (honestly I did when we first started, but I’ve realized there’s so much more to her that I love). I love her so much and she tells me that I’m helping her love herself and raise her standards for how people treat her.

But she still takes around 80-100 takes of the same pic of herself to curate her Instagram (that’s not an exaggeration). She takes a bunch with me and complains that they’re “not cute”. Personally, I think every picture with me and her in it is a cute picture and I think she’s the prettiest girl in the world.

But now she has started Photoshopping her Instagram pics and the amount she cares about her image is a major turn off to me.

I know it’s not my job, but I want to make her feel better about it and make her stop caring so much about having a curated social media persona. It gets hard hearing when she doesn’t think pics of us are good because they’re not staged and edited, but I don’t know what to do.

It’s such a bummer because I love her just the way she is and I hate when she feels like she has to impress random strangers she doesn’t even care about. How do I deal with it?

TL;DR My girlfriend has self esteem issues from her past and puts a lot of her self worth into her Instagram persona. It’s a major turnoff for me and idk what to do

Submitted June 23, 2019 at 09:39PM by electricguitar146 http://bit.ly/2Y4ghqx