Paulina Porizkova says she's 'having a hard time' using social media during Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Paulina Porizkova shared her thoughts on using social media amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

The 56-year-old took to Instagram over the weekend to discuss the internal conflict she feels about using Instagram while Ukraine is under attack.

"How does one keep posting about our general lives, our blessings, and fortunes when there is a war going on right in front of our faces?" Porizkova wrote to fans. "I know I am having a hard time scrolling through Instagram right now without dismissing some things as irrelevant or even slightly insulting. Yet, our lives go on."

The model acknowledged that although social media helps raise awareness for what's happening in Ukraine, people can quickly feel overwhelmed by the "unending violence" they see online. Porizkova said she feels as though people will "become impatient with the war and get back to what we always do" in order to make ourselves feel better.

Porizkova concluded by suggesting a balance of war-related posts to continue to raise awareness while we simultaneously continue to share content that boosts morale.

"I’m not advocating for only posting war-related information," she clarified. "I think we all need a little sunshine as well, or we get bogged down, and all the relevant information will just get passed off as another post that makes you feel bad. Do what you feel is right. But let’s keep the conversation going."

The star's post was met with thanks from followers who admitted they have been feeling similar mixed feelings about continuing to use social media "like normal."

"Thank you for expressing what I have been thinking," one person wrote.

"Agreed. Some sensitivity is needed surely," another said. "I was going to post a pic of a pretty drink during a meal out and decided against it. The thought of doing so made me feel icky."

"I struggle with this, too," wrote one follower. "And I agree with you that keeping the conversation going - especially when the topic is a painful or hard one - is so important. It’s difficult to always say and do the right thing. But to say nothing at all feels worse."

Porizkova's message comes just days after she blasted Instagram for removing another one of her Russia-Ukraine posts on the grounds of "propaganda" and "censorship."

The post in question was two side-by-side selfies — one heavily edited and altered to have her appear younger and and an unfiltered photo of herself. Porizkova called the photos an example of the "truth" versus "propaganda" in regards to the information being spread online about the crisis taking place in Ukraine.

“My last post in which I posted these two photos labeled ‘reality’ and ‘propaganda’ just got taken down by Instagram,” she shared. “I went on to talk about what it was like to live under Soviet rule as a child, and being indoctrinated to believe the Soviets were our best friends and had ‘saved us’ from oppression. In 1968. When the former Czechoslovakia just started to stand on their own.”

“What was so offensive about my post that it got taken down? I was speaking about censorship with no offensive language used, and I got censored!” she continued, criticizing the platform.

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