I know. Everywhere I go it seems that I too am surrounded by endless scrupulation on my appearance.
Billboards here and billboards there.
It is hard thing to deal with at times but I am proud to say “No airbrushing here”.
This girl is natural and proud of it!
A recent article in US Weekly http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/bethenny-frankel-shares-untouched-nude-photo-with-us-20091912 is causing quite a stir from animals rights activists cheering Bethenny Frankel’s unspoken statement against fur to Houswives fans and foes across the globe! Bethenny, star of Real Housewives of New York shared her unaltered uninhibited nude photo from her PETA photo shoot with the magazine, without regrets.
Bethenny never admits to or denies airbrushing of her photograph, so will we ever know the truth? Is it our right as consumers to know? Should this be okay with all of us? I don’t know.
I would first like to say “ROCK ON Bethenny” – what a great statement to make! Secondly, Bethenny is taking some heat for what many in the media think is acceptable. Did she do something wrong? Is she deserving of this criticism? I think it is dishonest and deceiving for images to be made “perfect” however, look at television and great literary pieces across generations. Are they 100% true? Are they a total lie or does fact and fiction intersect into a gray area of interpretation?
This kind of corruption of a woman’s body can be found in Barbie’s all across America…so what makes an Ad any different? Well for one, at least with Barbie we have a choice as consumers as to whether or not we will support this blatent disrespect of the human anatomy – but what about the tween and teens standing in line at the grocery or sitting in the waiting room at the dentist. What about all of us women who have to stare at a booty the size of a pea and boobs as big as well, BIG and not feel inferior? Makes MY laugh-lines and leg dimples feel pretty crappy!
It is disheartening to me that
-One study reports that at age thirteen, 53% of American girls are “unhappy with their bodies.” This grows to 78% by the time girls reach seventeen.
-In a survey of girls 9 and 10 years old, 40% have tried to lose weight, according to an ongoing study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.
-The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that eating disorders affect more than 5 million Americans each year.
-Each year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. More than 90 percent of those afflicted are adolescent and young adult women.
and so on and so on and so on….
You can read more here http://depts.washington.edu/thmedia/view.cgi?section=bodyimage&page=fastfacts
Take a look at the Photoshop of Horrors Hall Of Shame 2000-2009 at jezebel.com for a peak at what beauty has become over the last 9 years. Is it any wonder that women have such distorted body images?
Here, editors used Martha’s head and a model’s body, because (from Jezebel’s piece) Ms. Stewart was still in jail when the issue was being put together. It wasn’t supposed to be a photograph, anyway, it was art: “The piece that we commissioned was intended to show Martha as she would be, not necessarily as she is,” Lynn Staley, assistant managing editor at Newsweek, told The New York Times. You oughta see the rest of the magazine covers – sigh. http://jezebel.com/5426296//gallery/gallery/13
So I guess the question is…does it bother YOU? I would have to say that this is far from natural beauty and that it is truly a disgrace to us women (and the women who have been tweeked) to have Photoshop to compare ourselves to.
What do you think?
Very interesting…Sometimes I do not even realize how much airbrushing is actually happening to women. Thanks for sharing.
Hey there girlie! It really surprised me too! I think we just get so used to viewing these women as “perfect” that we somehow do not even notice or realize how much has been to make them look this way. Thanks for coming over and hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas!!
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