Warnings for Airbrushing?
Should airbrushed images in a magazine carry a warning label? Or should airbrushing be banned altogether?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2139797/Were-proof-glossy-maga...
"Rachael and I share the wish to be perfect, as well as an addiction to Diet Coke.
We both have anorexia nervosa, the psychiatric illness which causes more fatalities than any other, and which is the most difficult disease from which to recover fully.
We also share an addiction to the only thing we have ever wanted to feed on, suckle at and drink in great big, thirsty gulps: the glossy world of fashion magazines, the sartorial equivalent of toxic waste.
Rachael, who is 20, hit the headlines last week when she and her mother, Lynne, set up an online petition calling for airbrushed photographs in glossy magazines to be clearly labelled as such.
Rachael’s decline into anorexia was made worse by her obsession with photographs of super-slim celebrities in magazines.
She traces the beginnings of her illness back to being 13, when she saw a picture of Victoria Beckham in a magazine.
‘I absolutely loved her. She seemed to have it all. She was skinny, with big boobs,’ Rachael says.
‘She was my idol. I went around telling everyone that when I grew up, I wanted to have big breasts and be really, really thin.’
What would she say to her idol now, if she were to walk through the door?
‘She has a daughter now. Is she going to pass her neuroses on to her? I want children, but I wouldn’t want my daughter to go through what I’ve been through.’
Rachael, who is 5ft 4in, was size 10/12 and weighed 8st in January 2005, when she made a New Year’s resolution to lose weight.
Before long she was in the grip of twin addictions — to starvation and to glossy magazines. She started obsessing over thin celebrities, compiling motivational scrapbooks with pictures of them which she would pore over to stop herself eating when she felt hungry.
‘I spent all my money on magazines. I’d buy them on the way to school, then hide them in my bedroom.
'Other girls were buying shoes and make-up, but I’d spend my money on all the weeklies and two or three monthlies — any magazine with someone on the front who I thought looked skinny."
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While I believe that most anorexic's will become anorexic's regardless of whether or not they see stick then models in magazines, there is definitely evidence to suggest that seeing these women "feed's" the problem and gives anorexic's inspiration (or thinspiration as they call it).
What say you?
Oh my husband doesn't care. My mother does though.
I'm sure he'll love you more as you become "cuddlier" :O)
Miss Mimi, it will, takes about a year or so. don't worry!
Airbrushing is usually subtle, and is intended to deceive..
I'm hoping it sucks itself back in at some point, since it seems to be doing it without any assistance from fat. ;)
You just had a baby, so no, you are not fat.
"Well, I'd say fat is when a substantial amount of your belly hangs over your pants."
Guess I'm fat then. :(
and with the tendency to get symptoms of the disease from time to time, personally it's not images of thin as a stick women that have caused or worsened the disease. Rather it's been my own lack of self confidence, aiming at perfection, and addiction to losing weight itself.
The latter I would say is the worst, cos you get to a point when even a majority of your loved and trustworthy ones tell you that your weight loss is actually excessive, and causing you to look bad, and YET you wanna continue cos you just love that high of being in control(when in actuality it's more like out of control)of your body.
That said with regards to air brushing I'd say it should be banned in the advertising world because it's definitely false advertising!
http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/ap/vogue-bans-too-skinny-models-from-its-pages
Well, I'd say fat is when a substantial amount of your belly hangs over your pants.
It is far worse because it is total deception.
Airbrushing makes some pictures more pleasant to look at. How is it different than makeup or body-shaping clothes?
But what is fat? What was sexy less than a century ago is considered obese now. Thanks too stupid magazines and air brushing.
Diets are popular because people do not want to be fat and are hoping for an "easy " way to fix it.
Because there is too much pressure on women to be thin Brit? That pressure stemming from magazines and air brushing.
Well, I do not think it really is about "relating". It is more about making clothes look so that people want to buy them.
When it comes to facial creams, make up etc. Again, make it look so that people want to try it.
Perhaps you the exception to the rule.. Otherwise, why would all these diets and fads be so popular?
I can't relate to those images....I'll never be that skinny without becoming severely anorexic.
They are projecting an image that women can relate to and hanker for..
The fault lies with ourselves..
I do it to see what kind of clothes/styles the new season brings. Also to see what new products are on the market. I have a pretty good eye for those things...so I know if something is worth trying or not.
Then for the love of God, why do we buy these magazines/clothes, etc?
If nobody likes photoshopping, why are they still doing it?
OR, that the models advetising facial creams and treatments are about 12 years old.And the list goes on.....
I also hate that the models advertising mascara ALWAYS wear false lashes:(
No to airbrushing, it's false advertising.
Airbrushing should be banned. It is a way of distorting the truth and in many ways gives women the wrong message about themselves..
Ya, pro-Ana sites are frightening.
Came across this video which is heart breaking :( ....
http://youtu.be/RLYbSghCtXg
The mags are definitely thinspiration for anorexics or any person with a eating disorder. They obviously still would have the disease however, it certainly encourages them. Also there are websites for promoting anorexia and lots of thinspiration videos on YOUTUBE ( I find loads when Im looking up diets!) scary stuff.
This "idolizing" thing is something I could never "get".
But apparently it happens quite a lot.
Sad.
And as I said, show people how they really look.
Can you imagine actually seeing what some of these women REALLY look like? I've seen models at Fashion Week in Paris and I'm sorry, but in IMHO they are AWFUL. Skinny far past the point of starvation, angular boyish faces, no breasts, no butt, nothing that identifies them as a woman (which is most likely the fault of starving themselves so they can wear these ridiculous outfits).
NM, I think adults who see celebrities as role models have serious problems, but young girls don't know the difference. They see these women on magazines, they watch them on TV, they listen to men talk about them (and mothers) and they want to emulate them. Combine that with a predisposition for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and you get Anorexia nervosa or, on the other end of the spectrum, compulsive eating.
I think the should come out with some mags with models "au naturel"...no airbrushing, no body make up, nothing. Just as they are. That will send the right message to people.
I also think that people who are addicted to those mags and see celebrities as "role models" have a serious problem.