For when you're feeling down about your body

[winter]

Glamour photos of celebrities - before and after Photoshop

Mouse over the images and see how bellies and buttocks were tucked in, skins smoothed, arms narrowed, cellulite erased. And those are the beauty queens. Erases all complexes with a touch of the retouch brush.

(Gacked from pl.rec.uroda.)

Comments

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

A few weeks ago I read an interview with Heidi Klum. Her first shoot after having the baby is going to be for Victoria's Secret, and the interview asked what would happen if she hadn't lost all the weight.

She said something like: "They'll fix the picture. They'd fix the picture even if I was at my pre-pregnancy weight. No one looks the way models do in magazines in real life."

It's too bad more people don't realize this.

[winter]

Exactly. It's a little sad - over here in a class of 15-year-olds a friend teaches, half of them are borderline or clinically anorexic. And the rest want to be.

[muzivitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was the same way here when I was in high school. I remember angsting because there was no way in hell I was ever going to fit into a size two, seeing as I had hips and liked food.