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Fashion magazines are really having a hard time with this whole “accurate representation of the female body” thing that we crazy ladies are clamoring for. I mean, they’re trying, kind of. But man, they just can’t seem to get it right. Like, for example, when Numéro magazine recently airbrushed model Karlie Kloss…to make her look less thin. Sorry, Numéro. Close, but no body positive cigar. More
Lately, everywhere I go seems to be plastered in advertising for ‘The Mindy Project’. Mindy Kaling rocks, so I’m pretty happy about this on the whole. But when one of the ads popped up in the middle of my Mindy-covered New York magazine, I was gobsmacked: Why was her skin a completely different (lighter) color in the ad? More
Today, a page on Upworthy.com featuring scary statistics about American girls, disordered eating, the media, and body image has been making the Internet rounds–and for good reason. The facts, which are part of Miss Representation‘s Keep It Real campaign and in partnership with LoveSocial.org, SPARK, and I AM THAT GIRL, are reminders of why it’s essential to call out practices like the excessive use of Photoshop: because regardless of what critics say, consistently being exposed to images of unattainable “perfection” is bad for girls and women. More
