Episode 18 - Body Acceptance & Mental Health - Sara Puhto

In this long awaited episode of the Cognition & Co Podcast; Psychology in South Africa we take a look at body acceptance and how one young lady is single-handedly normalizing the human body, one photograph at a time. Sara Puhto is a 25 year old Psychology student from Finland, who grew up in Singapore. She came to South Africa in 2016 to study an undergraduate degree (BA General) at the University of Pretoria. She decided to further her studies in Psychology by getting an Honours degree at SACAP. 

She currently runs a social media page on Instagram relating to body acceptance and self acceptance. She attempts to bring forth acceptance, neutrality, and/or appreciation towards different topics related to bodies and body image, such as; body hair, hip dips, bloating, tummy fat, cellulite, stretch marks etc. Additionally, in the past she had placed focus on how posing, angles, editing and lighting change how individuals look in photos and relate this to “posing on instagram” versus how people look naturally in real life, without the posing. She did this to normalise how people look in real life because she feels like posing on Instagram can sometimes distort our perception of how bodies look naturally without posing.

Make sure you follow SaggySara on Instagram as well as on her TikTok page for more information on the work she does promoting body acceptance. 

Instagram: @saggysara

TikTok: @saggysara 

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