You South Africa

LOVE THE SKIN YOU’RE IN

The versatile fashion duo

NTLAHLA (19) & SESONA (24) MGODUKA

@similarbutnotthesame

These fashion-forward sisters from Port Elizabeth post snaps of themselves in the same outfits to prove that style has no size limit. Ntlahla is a first-year BCom student and Sesona is a civil engineering technologist.

What does body positivity mean to you? Creating an environment that allows each individual to love themselves boldly. It’s seeing beauty in others but also looking at yourself and seeing nothing less.

Why did you start posting pictures of yourselves in the same outfits on your Instagram page?

We were both in a space where we felt insecure and after chatting to each other, we found that as sisters we were always comparing ourselves to each other.

We were dissatisfied with ourselves but we were also tired of feeling that way, so we started SimilarButNot-TheSame as a project to stop comparing ourselves to each other and just love ourselves boldly.

We decided to do it via Instagram along

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