Bringing up the rear: Meet the Instagrammer with 1.3 million followers

  • Jen Selter, from New York City, has become an internet hit after posting photos of her workout and yoga sessions to Instagram
  • She counts Rihanna and sports stars among her followers
  • Selter, who is single, admits that some of the pictures can be a little 'showy' but that she wants to inspire and motivate people to stay fit

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 09:03 EST, 3 January 2014 | UPDATED: 11:36 EST, 3 January 2014

She's recognized wherever she goes and counts Rihanna among her fans - and it's for one very impressive attribute: Her rounded rear end.

Jen Selter, 20, from New York City, has amassed more than 1.3 million followers on her Instagram account, @jenselter, after posting poses from her workout and yoga sessions.

Just one picture of her on a workout ball or squatting at the gym can garner as many as 80,000 likes, and thousands consider her a fitness inspiration.

'I'm recognized wherever I am,' Selter told the New York Post. 'I don't really go to public gyms anymore just because it is a whole big scene when I'm there. I don't like being watched.'

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Jen Selter
Jen Selter

Famous asset: Jen Selter, 20, from New York, has amassed 1.3 million followers on Instagram after posing pictures of her pert behind. She says she aims to be an inspiration for other people to get fit

Fitness fanatic: Photos of Selter working out at the gym can garner as many as 80,000 'likes'

Fitness fanatic: Photos of Selter working out at the gym can garner as many as 80,000 'likes'

She admits that her photos are always focused on her rounded behind, explaining: 'I don't really post a lot of face pictures... They don't want to see my face.'

Selter, who is single and lives with her mother on the Upper West Side, took cosmetology classes while holding side jobs at a plastic surgeon's office and a gym after graduating high school.

 

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When she started working out at the gym, she noticed that her behind began getting bigger and was inspired by the transformation.

She joined Instagram in March 2012 and began posting images of her body. When she saw people reposting her images, she asked for a credit and her number of followers boomed. 

Active: Selter, originally from Long Island, is now a spokeswoman for a nutrition supplement company and hopes to launch her own line of workout gear while inspiring others to keep fit

Active: Selter, originally from Long Island, is now a spokeswoman for a nutrition supplement company and hopes to launch her own line of workout gear while inspiring others to keep fit

Jen Selter
Jen Selter

Stunning: Selter, who is single, says she struggles to go anywhere where she is not recognized

Proud: She says that while she has worked hard to achieve her behind, anyone can do it

Proud: She says that while she has worked hard to achieve her behind, anyone can do it

Curvy: Selter worked in a gym until she amassed half a million followers and began getting other job offers

Curvy: Selter worked in a gym until she amassed half a million followers and began getting other job offers

Once she achieved 300,000 followers, sponsorship offers piled up from companies including Nike, Lululemon and New Balance, among others.

She has since quit her gym job and secured deals with water company NY20 and a nutrition supplement company, Game Plan Nutrition, for which she is a spokeswoman.

While she would not reveal how much she makes from these deals, Selter, who did not go to college, said they give her 'a lot more money than a graduate would be making'.

Her mother, Jill Weinstein, said she couldn't be more proud of her daughter and her following.

'I'm very proud of her because this is a girl who didn’t want to go to college, and she was able to build up this social media in such a way that she has become famous and she is an inspiration and motivation for so many people,' she told the Post.

Close: Selter is pictured with her mother Jill, who said she is proud of how her daughter motivates others

Close: Selter is pictured with her mother Jill, who said she is proud of how her daughter motivates others

Many followers have suggested her plump derriere is fake - but she insists it is real, explaining that the only cosmetic surgery she has undergone was a nose job as a teenager.

'I'm Jewish,' she said. 'Jewish girls have big noses. Probably 1 out of 3 girls I know [has] a nose job.'

Selter, who hopes to create a line of workout gear or even her own chain of gyms, admits that some of the photos can be 'showy' - but said that she simply wants to inspire people.

'I see myself motivating and inspiring everyone around the world,' she told the Post. 'With hard work and dedication, anyone can get to where I am.'

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She kind of looks like Sandra Bullock and that is not a bad thing!

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Horrible scrawny stick insect

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unnatural looks deformed if you ask me !

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Does she really want to go down in history for being in love with her own buttocks?

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fickle, but hey, if it works.............#don't hate the player .....

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I have to agree with the many prior comments that her butt looks odd or fake. Its just too big compared to the rest of her body. Why would anyone want their buttocks formed in such a way that they could be used as a shelf? The rest of her looks great. I would love to have a stomach like that, but I am too lazy to work at it. Oh, and why is her mom trying to be hip and cool wearing those dopey aviators?

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wow you dont get many like her

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Self-obsessed. Imagine what she will be like at 50 when her narcissist personality is all that's left.

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Just so glad she's not my daughter. Could not stand looking at it or her huge ego!

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I'm amazed by her tiny waist and flat tummy. Wow!

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