Re: Why real women lose self esteem.

[Guest guest]

Pretty wild. I noticed on one pic they actually removed some definition on the

side of her ab.

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" Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half

as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. " -Charlotte Whitton-

Why real women lose self esteem.

Go the following site and run your mouse in and out of the picture,

to see what a " real " model ends up looking like. Unbelievable!

http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/index.html

[Guest guest]

HOLY COW!!! Thanks for posting this one.

Danna

Why real women lose self esteem.

Go the following site and run your mouse in and out of the picture,

to see what a " real " model ends up looking like. Unbelievable!

http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/index.html

[Guest guest]

You never know who is real and who has been photoshopped. Lines and

shadows can be added to anyone to put in muscle definition that

doesn't even exist. Definitely makes me wonder about the 's

Secret models.

Stasia

> Go the following site and run your mouse in and out of the picture,

> to see what a " real " model ends up looking like. Unbelievable!

>

> http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/index.html

[Guest guest]

That's a great link. I send people there all the time when they come to me in

tears because they can't get their legs to look like some model's. I'm like,

HELLO, even models don't look as flawless as their magazine pictures. It's

trickery! They have cellulite and spider veins right along with the rest of us.

Here's one where super model Tyra Banks talks about her cellulite and stretch

marks.

http://www.cnn.com/books/dialogue/9804/tyra.banks/

The digital blond model is eye-opening too:

http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/blonde/index.html

It's great to want to be the best *you* possible, but if you want to be somebody

else you're hosed. Chances are even they don't look like their pictures, not all

the time anyway.

Consider the 10-12 pound difference between fitness models real weight and

contest weight. They don't walk around looking like their magazine photos year

round. They diet their brains out, carb deplete, apply layer after layer of

ProTan, enter their contests, and do their photo shoots while they're still

dieted down. The magazines digitally re-touch any flaws in the pictures and then

the fitness women return to their lives as mere mortals until it's time to do it

all again. Now, they're extremely fit mere mortals, they're just not as perfect

as the magazines would lead you to believe. :-)

Why real women lose self esteem.

Go the following site and run your mouse in and out of the picture,

to see what a " real " model ends up looking like. Unbelievable!

http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/index.html

[Guest guest]

And if TYRA BANKS has cellulite, come on - it is NORMAL!!

There was also that magazine layout with Lee Curtis - my

favorite actress - where people were " stunned " because she let them

photograph her actual body and face, and allowed no airbrushing. She

did it to show normal women that without all the help, everyone has

flaws. And she looked good, just not perfect. That was very helpful

for me, becasue you get so bombarded with images of perfect, young

hard bodies all the time with Barbie proportions that you start to

feel worse!

Gotta love media honesty. Riya