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StopHatingYourBody
On a mission to live a body positive life
This is a series of ads from the early 20th century right up to the 1970s.
You might notice what they’re advertising is, instead of the weight loss solutions we’re used to today, they’re actually advertising weight GAIN.
‘It’s hard to believe they once called me skinny!’
‘Skinny girls are NOT glamour girls!’
‘a skinny, scarecrow figure is neither fashionable nor glamourous!’
‘thousands quickly gaining beauty-bringing pounds!’
Notice how less than a hundred years ago, these ads were meant to shame thin bodies the way weight loss ads shame fat bodies today? Notice that how as time goes by, the ‘ideal’ body shape changes from era to era? Notice how in these ads as well as those seen today, they’re meant to make people feel bad about the way they look?
These ads are just as bad as the ones that run today. They’re meant to shame you and make you feel inadequate for one sole reason: so you go out and spend money on their products. It’s not about your self esteem, your health, or your happiness. It’s about selling the product. It’s about making the money.
Your body is NOT wrong. You don’t need pills, diets, or supplements to make you happy, attractive, or ‘right’. All bodies are good bodies. It doesn’t matter if you’re skinny, fat, tall, short, disabled, scarred, anything at all.
Do not let the media dictate what you think you should be. The media is fickle. It does not care about you. Don’t let yourself care about what it says.
Love,
This is Roy A. Cui. He is a digital retoucher. His job is to digitally manipulate and ‘perfect’ the images that you and I see every day in ads and magazines.
At great personal risk, Roy has made this video to speak out against retouching and to talk about how nothing you see is real, how the women he retouches don’t even look like the finished product.
His goal with this video is “trying to get magazines that focus on fashion, beauty and the female lifestyle to print ONE UNretouched image of a model per publication for the summer of 2012. ”
Roy says in this video that he knows he might be committing career suicide, but he knows that it’s so important to get this message out.
Watch this video and share it with as many people you can. And more importantly, please, please remember not to judge yourself against people you see on TV or in magazines who aren’t even real.
Love,
(Source: awesome-, via fuckyeahbodypositivity)
How did Disney Channel go from this:
to this:
(Source: thr-ill, via annieelainey)
This is a series of ads from the early 20th century right up to the 1970s.
You might notice what they’re advertising is, instead of the weight loss solutions we’re used to today, they’re actually advertising weight GAIN.
‘It’s hard to believe they once called me skinny!’
‘Skinny girls are NOT glamour girls!’
‘a skinny, scarecrow figure is neither fashionable nor glamourous!’
‘thousands quickly gaining beauty-bringing pounds!’
Notice how less than a hundred years ago, these ads were meant to shame thin bodies the way weight loss ads shame fat bodies today? Notice that how as time goes by, the ‘ideal’ body shape changes from era to era? Notice how in these ads as well as those seen today, they’re meant to make people feel bad about the way they look?
These ads are just as bad as the ones that run today. They’re meant to shame you and make you feel inadequate for one sole reason: so you go out and spend money on their products. It’s not about your self esteem, your health, or your happiness. It’s about selling the product. It’s about making the money.
Your body is NOT wrong. You don’t need pills, diets, or supplements to make you happy, attractive, or ‘right’. All bodies are good bodies. It doesn’t matter if you’re skinny, fat, tall, short, disabled, scarred, anything at all.
Do not let the media dictate what you think you should be. The media is fickle. It does not care about you. Don’t let yourself care about what it says.
Love,
![“This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body image [issues] are too often adopted by young girls and women — thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.”
-Jennifer Lawrence, about her body image to the Chicago SunTimes
Jennifer Lawrence is a beautiful and talented actress in the limelight and she is not typical “celebrity thin”, so editors think she should lose some pounds the photoshop way.
Do not be pressured into becoming an image that isn’t even real. You are beautiful without photoshop!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx73e8ihWR1r6wac6o1_400.gif)
“This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body image [issues] are too often adopted by young girls and women — thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.”
-Jennifer Lawrence, about her body image to the Chicago SunTimes
Jennifer Lawrence is a beautiful and talented actress in the limelight and she is not typical “celebrity thin”, so editors think she should lose some pounds the photoshop way.
Do not be pressured into becoming an image that isn’t even real. You are beautiful without photoshop!
(Source: day47, via annieelainey)
I reblogged this quote and was amazed by how many people had already liked/reblogged it, and those who were still responding to it.
It is everything you need to know about how to value yourself.
I would love for every girl to have this as her desktop wallpaper. To see it on billboards. On posters at the bus stop. This is what our children should be learning from the media. Not undervaluing their worth because society’s standards of beauty are not what they see in the mirror.
“You are beautiful not for the shape of the vessel, but for the volume of soul it carries.”
Reason #784957049 NOT to judge yourself based off women you see in the media.
One word: AIRBRUSHING!I don’t believe there is a single magazine that doesn’t airbrush those who appear on it (and if there is, please let me know. I’m curious). There’s really no reason to even do it and I don’t get why they do, because in my opinion, Britney looks perfectly fine in the untouched photos.
Regardless. All it takes a is a little google search to see how fake the images of people on magazines are. It is NOT something you should allow make you feel inferior or any less beautiful. YOU (and the women who get airbrushed without any reason) are beautiful WITHOUT photoshop and airbrushing.
(Source: bodypositive-zone, via lacigreen)
BE BRAVE! JOIN THE BODY PEACE REVOLUTION!
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BE BRAVE! JOIN THE BODY PEACE REVOLUTION!
(Source: leilockheart, via annieelainey)
![”By the time a girl is 17, she has seen more than 250,000 messages about what she is supposed to look like.” [Source]
We grow up surrounded by photographs of women with every flaw carefully photoshopped out - and then are told that we can be as thin as they are, as beautiful as they are, as flawless as they are, if only we try harder. We are taught that beauty is essential to happiness, to success, to our professional lives. We are taught that weight is the best and most important measure of health. We are constantly reminded that we are companions, to be admired - the pretty prize the guy strives for, the superheroine with heels and cleavage windows.
We spend all our time creating an outer facade for ourselves, without realizing that as long as you are striving for something that you consider to be better than us, we will never be happy with who we are. We layer ourselves in different shades and different fits, strive to look better and better while inside we feel worse and worse. We grow up staring at these icons of perfection on our television sets and in our magazines, feeling inadequate about our own imperfections that seem to stand out a mile in our bedroom mirrors.
“Twenty years ago, the average model weighed 8 per cent less than the average woman—but today’s models weigh 23 per cent less.” [Source]
It’s called, among other things, The Photoshop Effect, propogating the myth of the ‘Perfect Woman’ through use of shaky media ethics and fragile self-esteem to create, instead, the Perfect Lie.
It’s H&M admitting that they’d been pasting models’ faces onto fake computer-generated bodies. It’s the pounds being trimmed off and the wrinkles being smoothed out and the freckles being painted away on the bodies and faces of celebrities in magazine shoots while the text printed next to them preaches natural beauty and self-esteem. It’s body shaming in advertising, in this century and the one before.
It’s young girls looking at those photos and feeling their self-confidence shatter because in their minds, they are ugly. And who is going to tell them otherwise? Certainly not the $170 billion dollar beauty industry, or the mainstream media, or our politicians. Certainly not general office culture, where it is accepted practice to demand women wear high heels and makeup (and to fire them if their appearance doesn’t match requirements).
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” [Audrey Hepburn]
We are just a couple of girls with laptops and our own piles of insecurity. But we want, in our own small way, to speak out. And we are putting together a video.
So here is what we’re asking for in the way of contribution.
Film. WE ARE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS - particularly those who enjoy and have experience using cosmetics - to film themselves going from plain face to fully made up in hopes of driving home the message. We would also, with the volunteers’ permission, pick several submissions to put through Photoshop as well, to show the full extent of the transformation. This is not about shaming. This is about saying, ‘We are all in this together.’ The two of us will be contributing ourselves, and as a show of good faith will be the first faces in the video. [DOVE - MAKEUP VIDEO - ‘EVOLUTION’]
Speak. Whether it be through spoken word poetry or just you sitting in your bedroom, talk to us. Tell us about your experiences, your feelings, your body. Why you hate it, or even better, why you love it. Tell us about how you got to where you are in your journey. [KATIE MAKKAI - POETRY SLAM - ‘PRETTY’]
Write. Don’t want to show your face or record your voice? Take a photo or a video of yourself holding up a sign. It could be something inspirational, or something poignant - doesn’t matter.
Research/Contribute. Don’t want to be in the video in any shape or form? No worries! We’d still love to hear from you. Send us facts you’ve researched or articles you find relevant or ideas for the project. We would love to hear from anyone and everyone.
[CONTACT US: EMILY’S EMAIL. IMAAN’S EMAIL. EMILY’S LIVEJOURNAL/TUMBLR/TWITTER. IMAAN’S LIVEJOURNAL/TUMBLR/TWITTER.]
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD. REBLOG, RETWEET, RE-LINK.
And we leave you with this, which always terrifies and inspires us.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0i6f0BE6z1qen4sno1_500.jpg)
”By the time a girl is 17, she has seen more than 250,000 messages about what she is supposed to look like.” [Source]
We grow up surrounded by photographs of women with every flaw carefully photoshopped out - and then are told that we can be as thin as they are, as beautiful as they are, as flawless as they are, if only we try harder. We are taught that beauty is essential to happiness, to success, to our professional lives. We are taught that weight is the best and most important measure of health. We are constantly reminded that we are companions, to be admired - the pretty prize the guy strives for, the superheroine with heels and cleavage windows.
We spend all our time creating an outer facade for ourselves, without realizing that as long as you are striving for something that you consider to be better than us, we will never be happy with who we are. We layer ourselves in different shades and different fits, strive to look better and better while inside we feel worse and worse. We grow up staring at these icons of perfection on our television sets and in our magazines, feeling inadequate about our own imperfections that seem to stand out a mile in our bedroom mirrors.
“Twenty years ago, the average model weighed 8 per cent less than the average woman—but today’s models weigh 23 per cent less.” [Source]
It’s called, among other things, The Photoshop Effect, propogating the myth of the ‘Perfect Woman’ through use of shaky media ethics and fragile self-esteem to create, instead, the Perfect Lie.
It’s H&M admitting that they’d been pasting models’ faces onto fake computer-generated bodies. It’s the pounds being trimmed off and the wrinkles being smoothed out and the freckles being painted away on the bodies and faces of celebrities in magazine shoots while the text printed next to them preaches natural beauty and self-esteem. It’s body shaming in advertising, in this century and the one before.
It’s young girls looking at those photos and feeling their self-confidence shatter because in their minds, they are ugly. And who is going to tell them otherwise? Certainly not the $170 billion dollar beauty industry, or the mainstream media, or our politicians. Certainly not general office culture, where it is accepted practice to demand women wear high heels and makeup (and to fire them if their appearance doesn’t match requirements).
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” [Audrey Hepburn]
We are just a couple of girls with laptops and our own piles of insecurity. But we want, in our own small way, to speak out. And we are putting together a video.
So here is what we’re asking for in the way of contribution.
- Film. WE ARE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS - particularly those who enjoy and have experience using cosmetics - to film themselves going from plain face to fully made up in hopes of driving home the message. We would also, with the volunteers’ permission, pick several submissions to put through Photoshop as well, to show the full extent of the transformation. This is not about shaming. This is about saying, ‘We are all in this together.’ The two of us will be contributing ourselves, and as a show of good faith will be the first faces in the video. [DOVE - MAKEUP VIDEO - ‘EVOLUTION’]
- Speak. Whether it be through spoken word poetry or just you sitting in your bedroom, talk to us. Tell us about your experiences, your feelings, your body. Why you hate it, or even better, why you love it. Tell us about how you got to where you are in your journey. [KATIE MAKKAI - POETRY SLAM - ‘PRETTY’]
- Write. Don’t want to show your face or record your voice? Take a photo or a video of yourself holding up a sign. It could be something inspirational, or something poignant - doesn’t matter.
- Research/Contribute. Don’t want to be in the video in any shape or form? No worries! We’d still love to hear from you. Send us facts you’ve researched or articles you find relevant or ideas for the project. We would love to hear from anyone and everyone.
- [CONTACT US: EMILY’S EMAIL. IMAAN’S EMAIL. EMILY’S LIVEJOURNAL/TUMBLR/TWITTER. IMAAN’S LIVEJOURNAL/TUMBLR/TWITTER.]
- AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD. REBLOG, RETWEET, RE-LINK.
And we leave you with this, which always terrifies and inspires us.
