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An artist has revealed how easy it is to transform the human body simply by employing different poses.

In her striking photo project Illusions of the Body, Gracie Hagen's subjects go from sexy to awkward simply by hunching their shoulders, sticking their stomachs out and contorting their bodies.

She writes on her website that she created the series in order to ‘tackle the supposed norms of what we think our bodies are supposed to look like.’

Transformation: In her striking photo project Illusions of the Body, Gracie Hagen’s subjects go from pretty to awkward simply by hunching their shoulders, sticking their stomachs out and contorting their bodies