Comments on: [Balancing the Scales] The Messages Advertisers Are Sending

By: kat magendie

kat magendie — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:45:52 +0000

Me too!

And stop with the botox already – eyewww! it makes people look strange…

By: Ami

Ami — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:41:11 +0000

Yes! Now that’s a role model to look up to. It was in More…and I’d like to see more famous people putting their “real selves” out there!

By: kat magendie

kat magendie — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:32:56 +0000

I know — !! remembe when Jamie Lee Curtis let photographers take photos of “her real body” and put them in the magazine? I think it was More….

By: Ami

Ami — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:39:36 +0000

Hi, Kat! Thanks for stopping by. I totally understand retouching to get rid of blemishes, fix stray hairs, etc. That’s minor, in my opinion. It’s the extreme stuff that I find problematic. Sure, not every picture makes me look my best, but I’m not going to go around retouching them to make myself look thinner. I just choose the more flattering pictures to share. Why can’t advertisers and magazines do that? What’s wrong with showing someone on a cover or in an ad that has some curves to her, whose waist isn’t cinched perfectly, whose hips are round and full? Have we really been so brainwashed as to think that if we do this, buy that, wear those, we’ll look as thin and gorgeous as that unrealistic goddess on the cover?

By: kat magendie

kat magendie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:10:05 +0000

PS Ironically, my author photo is “touched up” a bit! I look all smoothed out…a little too smoooooth to my liking *laugh* But I understand what the publishers were trying to do….. But I can’t imagine anyone shaving pounds off of me or making my big nose smaller or my full cheeks thinner -ugh! Anyway, bookmarking your site to come back….

By: kat magendie

kat magendie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:06:21 +0000

Hear hear! You said it, Ami!

I am going to come back tomorrow and catch up here on your posts . . . !