- I thought that looking at these photos
was going to make me feel awesome.
And honestly, it's just making me feel bad about myself.
- I hate that I don't like them more.
Like I just wish they made me feel really good
because that's, that's what I look like.
(Girls cheering)
- Oh my god!
- I'm doing it right now, share
- Oh she did it!
(girls screaming)
- Two, three, go, it's happening
(Angelic music playing)
- We are learning how to trap people with thirsty photos.
Is that what we're doing? I think so.
- My name is Rachel. I'm the Try Guys producer,
and I am a mom of twins.
I became a mom two and a half years ago.
- My name is Krisanne Dunham and I'm a content producer.
I became a mom in December, December 29th in 2020.
- We're going to talk to Mik Zazon,
an influencer who posts a lot of thirst trap photos.
She's really good at it. We're going to look,
get a little lesson on how we're going
to do this with Kaylin and Mik.
And then the three of us are going to go do
this big photo shoot and then comes the part
that I'm really nervous about.
Going to post them on our social media and yeah.
Then we're just going to sort of bathe
in our self worth for a little while.
(up beat music playing)
- My name is Mik Zazon. I am a creator on social media,
founder of the normalize normal bodies movement
and Rose Retreats, which is
a women empowerment event company.
I'm here to help you embrace your bodies.
- So we are moms.
(laughing)
There are many moms out there. This is a,
a tough time for us because our bodies have changed.
- It's definitely a rollercoaster.
I mean, you think that you're prepared to be a mom
when you actually become a mom.
It's like, it's just learn as you go.
You're doing things, not for yourself anymore.
Very selfless acts. So when she goes down to bed,
that's when I kind of am like, okay, this is my time,
which my time is like cleaning.
- It's like stopping being the protagonist
of your own story.
Suddenly two other little people are the protagonist.
- Like you talk about changes in your body,
but changes in your lifestyle,
kind of create those changes in your body too.
When you're used to sleeping eight, nine hours a night,
and then you go to sleeping and waking up for hours every
night, your, your whole life changes.
- Your body is ever changing.
Like that's the beauty of bodies in life.
And knowing that your worth, isn't what you look like.
I applaud you for having kids. It's so difficult
My sister is like, I haven't shaved in a month.
And I'm like, you know, that's all, you know,
- Okay
- You know, you're taking care of humans. That's so special.
- My body changed for sure. And I was like, oiling it up,
getting the belly butter going like your boobs, get bigger.
Everything gets bigger. I mean, you're just not the same.
- Coming into my body again was a little bit daunting.
You know, there's a lot of stuff to work out.
I'll never forget walking around the hospital.
And I had to hold my belly like this
because as I walked my organs moved.
- I'm not leaving the house thinking, did I brush my teeth?
Like, did I put on makeup today? Do I look great?
I'm leaving the house thinking are my children alive.
(Upbeat pop music)
- Hi everyone. I'm Kaylin.
I'm the Try Guys, brand manager.
So I manage all of our social media platforms.
- Yeah, but why are you really here Kaylin?
- So on the side, I also,
(laughing)
I do post a lot of thirst traps
- [Ariel} We have two expert thirst Trappers.
- [Rachel] Yeah
- [Kaylin] I would not call myself an expert
- [Mik] Yes you are
- Mik is the expert over here.
I'm learning from her as well today.
- Listen
- What is a thirst trap?
- My definition of a thirst trap is to bring attention,
to embracing my body and giving people permission,
to look at it and say, I want to do that too.
I want to embrace my body, an unphotoshopped body.
- Let's get on our feet and let's try some poses.
- Yay
- You have to help us.
- I would make angles angles.
Yes, yes.
Love that. You can also go like this.
- What are we reaching for thought?
- Doesn't matter. The sky.
- Yes Ariel. Look at these angles.
- [Krisanne] You're down there
(laughing)
- [Krisanne] How'd you get down there?
- When we do the photos. You can like sit and squat.
Is like a thing too
- [Mik} Yeah that's attractive.
- Well like bathing suit photos.
Like this is the whole thing right now where you like,
do this like push your hips back.
- [Krisanne] Oh I've seen this I've seen this!
- Oh let's see.
- When you move things towards the camera, they look bigger.
And when you move things away from the camera,
they look smaller. Yes.
- This, this feels so strange.
- Honestly you're killing it though.
- You are.
- That is literally how to do it.
- That's actually a pose too. Like one of the bathing
suit poses is to sit and crawl. Like the sit and reach.
- I'm never taking photos of myself.
I'm always taking photos of my kids. It's never me.
And every once in a while,
I'll send a photo of like me with my kids sort of.
Proof of mom, like proof of person.
- We do that trend text too we're like
- Like I am also here.
- proof of mom
Okay. So, so I don't know what, what do you do.
You go to stand here and go.
- So I think that the fact that you're already putting your
hands in your pockets is a great idea.
And you really love the idea of like lengthening
one leg to create some sort of angles.
- [Kaylin] Yeah that's great. Oh my gosh.
- [Rachel] Yes Ariel
- Yes. Yes.
- [Kaylin] See you already got it.
- This is so, this is so unnatural.
- You can first start off like this and put one foot out.
Yep. That's literally perfect.
- Yeah like
- yeah
- Oh, I see.
- [Mik] Do you see? Cause it looks phenomenal.
- Yeah, yeah
- I feel like I should not be standing.
I feel like this is just awkward and frumpy.
- So you want to be sitting.
- [Mik] Yes. That's already
(Laughing)
- Shake your hair and then look at the camera.
- Okay
- [Ariel] Yes that's perfect!
- [Mik] Okay. Maybe,
(laughing)
lengthen this out a little bit
and then roll your hips back
and then like prop yourself up.
- [Kaylin] Ariel. I know you're facing that way,
but the view over here is excellent.
- [Krisanne] Your butt looks really good.
- I can like look back and laugh at the air, yeah,
and I will shake my hair, but I'll like,
pretend like I'm just like having fun with myself.
- I'm just having fun by myself in my bedroom in my mansion.
- [Kaylin] Yeah, that's perfect see the way you
like side to your hips
(rock music playing)
- [Krisanne] We are at a photo shoot house.
That's going to turn into a thirst shop house.
- I feel great.
I was telling everybody that I'm a morning person.
I'm also really trying to manifest like courage
and confidence today because I feel like
the second I am like, ah, I'm not good at this.
Then I'm just going to, you know, retreat into myself.
- Honestly, I feel really nervous.
- [Krisanne] Me too
However, I'm being inspired by Ariel and Krisanne saying
I'm just gonna like speak only confidence
and fortitude into the situation today.
- [Krisanne] Honestly, I think just putting myself out there
and getting myself outside of my
comfort zone would be the goal.
Of course I would want like at least 10 good pictures
(laughing)
out of the 2000 that we'll probably take.
(funky music playing)
- I want to be more present for myself
because I feel like I'm disappearing
because being a mom does not mean that
I should just fade away
- [Krisanne] You don't think about yourself
when you're present and you're like,
oh my God, my baby's so cute.
But you're like in your sweats and your hair tie.
And you're like, oh, that's why I wasn't in that photo.
But looking back you're like I should have took a photo.
(video playing)
- Oh my god
(laughing)
I mean yeah my ass looks amazing,
but also you can kind of see my cootch
(funky music playing)
- [Ariel] I don't think that thirst trap
has to be overtly sexy.
And I don't want for these photos that I'm taking to be like
me trying to be sexy or me trying to look younger.
It's somebody feeling confident
in themselves, in their body.
(cheering)
- This looks so good
- Your face looks so good that I even forgot
that you're boobs are out
- I think the most exciting part is getting outside of my
comfort zone. I just feel like I'm in a routine right now.
So having this is kind of exciting.
Sometimes as a mom, you, you gotta be real,
you know, you can't sugar coat things.
So I think this will be a really good learning experience.
Not only for myself, but for us together.
- [Mik] Laugh at us, yeah. That's cute.
- As my kids age, they're going to get
further and further away from me,
less a part of me and more a part of the world.
So I need to make sure I'm staying
a whole person unto myself so that
when they are their own people, unattached to me.
I'm not left with like a shell of a human being.
I want to take care of myself because I want them
to do the same thing for them.
So I hope they look back and think,
wow, my mom, she was so hot and so cool.
I'm sure they'll think I'm lame.
But what if they thought I was cool? One can dream.
(pop music playing)
- This looks straight out of a magazine already
(funky music playing)
- You guys. there are like 3000 of these
for us to go through and we have to pick like at least five.
- Oh my God. I am so awkward.
- [Rachel] Oh my god
- I am the most awkward penguin, look at my,
look at me, I'm just going.
Okay I actually
do really like some of these
- Okay look up here, that is amazing.
- [Krisanne] Look at you, awesome
- [Ariel] I love this one
- [Rachel] And your side boob
- [Ariel] You just look so naturally, just like
- [Krisanne] I feel like you're in your element
- [Ariel] You look like the cool girl that like,
I wish I knew.
- You do know
- I love these, I love these.
- [Krisanne] Oh God.
- [Rachel] I love these
(screaming)
- [Krisanne] oh Jesus
- [Ariel] Its perfect, it's a really good photo.
- If you saw this
Oh god, do not
(laughing)
all that I see here is my stomach. You guys.
- What?
- Oh Ariel
- That's all I see here yeah, okay I see,
Like a little bit of flow hanging out
over my swimsuit there.
- Oh, because you're a human with skin
- Right? okay
- Oh, look it without the hat. No?
- Hmm no, no. I just all I see is leg and stomach
- I know. I hate when you see anything on my stomach,
but flat, which is unfortunate because
my stomach is not flat, so it's all the time
(giggling)
- On the day. It felt really exciting to have like
Kaylin and Alex there cheering us on,
the photographer Brittany, everyone was so supportive
and looking at the photos and I'm not as thrilled as I was
- [Krisanne] Okay, these are my favorite of you
- Really? I, I hate these.
- Why?
- Look at this though, look, I could cry, I won't,
but I could. My like tummy and my chest
are the same thickness across, it's like, there's no boobs
- That's everybody when they're laying down,
because their boobs go to the side, there's no way
- [Krisanne] Oh geeze
(laughing)
- [Ariel] They're perfectly shiny and amazing
- Oh my god
- They're incredible
- So my boobs are fully exposed, they are my biggest
insecurities after having a baby right now,
my boobs are uneven, they have stretch marks.
They are lower than I want them to be.
- Oh dear God.
- The blue ones, no
there were a couple where I noticed that I,
you can just see cellulite down the side of my leg.
I thought that looking at these photos
was going to make me feel awesome.
And honestly, it's just making me feel bad about myself.
- It's just not flattering light. And in this photo,
in this swimsuit in a different light would be incredible.
But some light is flattering and some light is not.
- I felt so good when we were taking these. And I was like,
Ooh, I'm going to do like a sexy pool girl thing.
And then I see it. And my heart just drops because I'm like,
why did I think that I looked to good?
You know, like this, this makes me want to cry.
How did I think that this would turn out well?
- It did though, think about the white swimsuit
and the better light, it did turn out.
- Its the lighting it's not you and in this moment
we were like, oh my God, look at her.
- And why are we so uncomfortable
with seeing rolls and cellulite?
You can see like rolls around my stomach
and like the sides of my stomach. Oh, look at that though.
- Stop
- Before I even scroll down to the booty, look at my waist.
Horrifying
- [Ariel] No!
- [Krisanne] No, it's not
- [Ariel] It's not horrifying
- Mik would say that's just a normal body.
Like we took 3000 photos.
I pulled like four that I really liked
- With every single good picture online,
there are hundreds of photos that they don't post.
And one of my favorite things to do is post
the photo that I would never post.
And then also post the photo that I would post.
- I'm just worried that I'm putting too much
of myself out there
- [Krisanne] It's no secret that our whole body changes
after having a baby.
No one talks about how much it wreaks havoc on your boobs.
The only reason why my boobs look so perky and so big
is because I didn't pump all day that day
- I am so concerned that if I post these online,
that the feelings that I have people online will
just reflect that,
we all have like social media presences and,
and get comments. There are a lot of really supportive
and nice people out there,
but there are also some people who are not as supportive.
- Every bad comment that I have.
There are hundreds of amazing comments too,
screw everybody who. Who has the energy
and time to post negative comments.
Like, are you kidding me? That's embarrassing.
- You know, I'm looking at these and I'm trying
to look less at like what my body actually looks like.
And just remembering how fun this was to do.
Instead the first thing I do is zeroing in, on my waist.
- [Rachel] Look at like us just piling our faces together
- [Ariel] I know
- [Krisanne] It's cute
- My body has just been a battleground.
I'm happy with where I am.
I feel like my body has done amazing things.
I want for the people that see these photos to understand
that your body doesn't have to be perfect in order for you
to appreciate it and celebrate it.
- I'm going to like them more, I'm just going to try
and like more of them they're good photos.
That's what I look like, I'm a human person
who really likes pizza.
- We're going to post photos for a week
and you can't post anything else for that week.
- Ahhh
- No babies.
- So I think that like, to work your guys
your way up to like the big reveal,
what you guys should do is post
like a little teaser first.
- I think my first one's the telephone.
- Oh yes. I love that one.
- I just think this one reads is fun. Sweet and innocent.
And not that thirsty.
- Yeah. I feel like this one it's sort of,
it's thirsty, you know, it, it kind of has like
traditional thirst trap vibe, you know,
where it's like, like you're some, come see what I'm doing.
- I think I'm going to do the orange dress.
I feel like I'm most comfortable in that picture.
- Should we post the first one?
- Yes.
- [Kaylin] Yeah
- How does that make you feel?
Because it makes my heart race.
- Ugh, I think it's just because we've been waiting
for this moment for, I feel like for so long.
- [Rachel] For so long!
- Maybe just do it, because I could, I could
- [Rachel] Are you going to push it?
- Forever
- Push okay, I like can't do it until someone else does it.
It's like when you're jumping
- How about, we count. How about I count down for everybody?
- I'm sweaty
- I'm doing it right now, share
- Oh she did it
(screaming)
- Oh shoot here we go
- Its happening
- This is killing me
- Mine is still loading
(screaming)
- In the beginning, I wasn't that excited to post these,
but once I got on a roll, I got really excited to post again
the next day and the next day.
And I just tried to internally show myself a little more
grace and a little more kindness.
I was proud of myself and I was proud of the way
the photos looked.
- I went, so massively far out of my comfort zone,
being in this photo shoot and telling myself
not to look back and think,
I wish I was still that I wish I was still that it's saying,
Nope, this is who I am now. And it's great.
- All these pictures made me feel liberated.
And it actually gave me more confidence.
You know, when you become a mom,
you kind of lose yourself sometimes and your body changes.
You know, it can be a lonely state,
but there's so many people going through that.
This is kind of the first things I've ever done for myself.
Since I had a baby,
- I think my perception of myself is kinder than it was
your body is an ever changing, ever fluctuating entity.
Why not fully embrace it wherever it is right now,
because it is worthy of being there.
- Mom's get out of your comfort zone,
just put yourself in the photos that you take of your kids.
You want to be in those photos.
You want to be in those memories
and you're going to appreciate it.
And you're going to thank yourself later.
(rock music playing)
- [Mik] Like, you're flirting with a boy like,
oh, you're stupid.
(laughing)
- [Krisanne] Come on Chad, Chad stop joking around.