Feeling fat? Especially after the holiday season?
Chew on this and then look in the mirror again….
Lizzie Miller (pictured left), a 20-year-old model from the US, caused a stir last year when she refused to let glossy women’s magazine Glamour airbrush the very natural but slightly flabby roles of tummy fat out of a photo.
Good for her!
Her defiance in the face of the fashion industry's keenest and meanest weapon – Photoshop – was the high point of the year for many young women, this blogger included, who are growing increasingly sick of the picture perfect body images portrayed in the Western world. Not only is it unrealistic for most normal, healthy women... but who the hell decided that a size 0 is the perfect body? I mean have you ever looked at an emaciated 0 sized woman? It's not a pretty sight!
Since reading about Lizzie Miller in ‘The Wobbly Bits that Shook the World….” I have not been able to shake the whole fashion industry sham, which believes it has created the perfect body for all women to emulate.
It’s even got to the point where I can no longer stomach the glossies with a straight face, let alone accept digitally manipulated fashion and entertainment photos that appear on-line and all around us… all have been so obviously doctored to create what they believe are the ‘perfect’ female measurements.
Nobody is perfect, unless your airbrushed
After studying Lizzie’s picture and reading the furor around her story, I really began to wonder if any woman’s body is as perfect as what we see in magazines and other modern photoshoots?
The question that remains is should these images be manipulated? Obviously the world has an image of the perfect body and that is what many women strive to be like day in day out… perhaps it’s a way for us to fulfill a fantasy or it gives us a goal to strive for?
A body to die for
On the other hand, does it create false and impossible goals for us? Not to mention all those people who starve themselves into thinness, so they can be like their favorite celebrity and fit into that impossible dress size.
Kelly Clarkson before and after being airbrushed
Love this post, Ruth -- right on! It reminds me of an incident in one of the glossy mags in the '90s when, in the quest for perfection, the photo editors removed the little flap of skin from the corner of some of the models' eyes (don't know the anatomical term for it)!
ReplyDeletethanks Lucy! better than discussing dead bodies all the time.....
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