Paulina Porizkova on dealing with social media trolls: 'It’s not the men that are the worst critics'

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit star said she didn't set out to start a #nofilter moment.

"I didn’t know that you could filter yourself!" Porizkova admitted to Page Six Style with a laugh. "Had I known, I probably would have … like, ‘Look at how great I look!’ But I just had no clue." In hindsight, the catwalker’s happy she hasn’t contributed to the darker side of Instagram culture, where users — many of them children and teens — feel pressure to filter their faces and bodies to perceived perfection. "Oh my God, the damage it’s doing is unbelievable," she said. "All these young girls look to those pictures and don’t necessarily know that it’s not real. Being immersed in that world … how inspiring is it to only see something that’s so out of your reach?"