Miss White

Every photo on Instagram is proof that I’m living wrong. Someone figured out how to make showering look like freedom, how to sit on a couch and look like they have something figured out, and I’m here trying not to crack my skull on the shampoo bottle when I slip.

Kirby White is a model from Sydney who somehow made doing nothing look like living. Her feed is just her existing—beach days, couch days, quiet moments—and each image reads like proof that she’s figured out something I haven’t. Even her most unremarkable seconds are devastating.

A photographer named David Collier saw what I saw. He shot her for a series called Miss White, published in Naked magazine. It’s Kirby, naked, in an apartment doing regular things. Showering. Cleaning. Being there. Pizza shows up in some shots, which shouldn’t matter but does—it makes the whole thing feel both real and impossible.

If I could find a genie right now I’d trade my entire life for hers without blinking. It’s a stupid thought about a stranger, but that’s what Instagram does. It makes me want to climb inside someone else’s skin just to feel what their life feels like.