What Really Happens In A Photo Shoot

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YouTube - Dove-The true photo shoot

Every teenage girl should see this - and frankly every woman. When we see those sags, wrinkles, spots, hair that isn't perfect, etc... we can remember this video and LAUGH. Those pics in magazines of course, as we know, are not reality at all. And they also enhance the butt, boobs, stomach, etc.... no wonder they look so Stepford Wife Perfect!

 

[scooterbug44]

It's one of my favorite videos - so insane so to see how unrealistic these images are and what they do to self-esteem.

It really pisses me off because SO MANY young girls have serious eating disorders because of it.

Try to name an actress or celebrity who is a healthy weight, who has not had any plastic surgery, and who has NOT appeared on a magazine cover deliberately airbrushed and digitally altered to look physically different.

There was some show I saw w/ the "fashion" guy from Queer Eye where he tried to get women to have a realistic idea about their own body size as part of a makeover. One was having them face a line-up of other women and try to insert themselves in the spectrum correctly by size - they were usually off by a couple sizes and many inches.

 

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Have you seen this one?

YouTube - The Transformation - Read Description on the right

OMG what skin!!
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[zip]

Damn, I thought it was all real. That guy looks good and with attitude.

 

[Beach Runner]

It's one of my favorite videos - so insane so to see how unrealistic these images are and what they do to self-esteem.

It really pisses me off because SO MANY young girls have serious eating disorders because of it.

Try to name an actress or celebrity who is a healthy weight, who has not had any plastic surgery, and who has NOT appeared on a magazine cover deliberately airbrushed and digitally altered to look physically different.

There was some show I saw w/ the "fashion" guy from Queer Eye where he tried to get women to have a realistic idea about their own body size as part of a makeover. One was having them face a line-up of other women and try to insert themselves in the spectrum correctly by size - they were usually off by a couple sizes and many inches.

Ditto. Our daughter started therapy at 13 about her self-image issues. The frustrating thing for her is that no matter how thin she gets, she'll still be 6'3" and have big bones. Now that she has lost weight, she turns heads (in a positive way) when she walks into a room, yet that gives her no self-confidence. And all of her attributes (brains, artistic abilities, being an accomplished violinist, etc.) don't seem to make up for her that she's not a size 0.

It's not just young girls. I know women of all ages who work out all the time and keep getting skinnier and skinnier, including one who is almost 70 who I saw at the gym last week. She looked like someone from a concentration camp. I swear, one of my friends has got to be below a size 0. Where do they buy clothes when they get that skinny?

 

[hkem1]

This is just all a marketing campaign by Dove to try to sell more of their products.

Obviously we know that these pictures of models we see on billboards aren't what they truly look like? But why is it crazy to think Dove is trying to stretch the truth as well in order to make more money?

 

[Gidget]

Who cares - the point is seeing it right before your eyes - elongating the neck, raising the brows, putting hair where it isn't, etc... that's what's fascinating - it isn't just a little air brushing. Dove's marketing campaign could be worse - being about the natural beauty in women. I don't see that as a bad thing.

 

[scooterbug44]

I don't think most people realize just how much these photos are altered and just how huge of an effect being bombarded by those images has.

It isn't one "marketing campaign" versus another, it's the root of millions having eating disorders, unhealthy eating habits, poor self esteem, and lifelong or life threatening effects from it.

More than 1/2 of American women are on a diet right now.

Millions have or have had a serious eating disorder. Unhealthy dieting, bingeing, anorexia, purges, cleanses, excessive exercising, diet pills and products, laxatives, you name it. Many others are overly self-conscious and have body image issues and pass on those issues to their daughters.

Our society continues to tell girls and women that being thin is better than anything else. Computers are making the images they are bombarded with even more unrealistic than before and people are literally dying to be thin and having insane (and insane numbers) of surgical procedures.