This is an article that reminded me of the blog I wrote on August 18th. As someone who is,embarrassingly enough, influenced by the media regarding what I should look like, I find this really sad. The model in the article is so pretty with her "real" body!! This makes me wonder....if I ever have a daughter, what will she be looking at as her "ideal?". Little kids get scared of people dressed up as monsters around Halloween, and they have nightmares about ghosts and demons because they see them in all the scary movies and TV shows. No matter how much you tell them "it isn't real", and although they may know it isn't real, it's still SCARY! Same thing with this incredibly misleading advertising. It may not be "real", but if it's in your face enough, it may start to seem that way. My first reaction to print ads with models half naked in them is usually "I will never look like that". And it's true...I never will, and after reading this article I know that she probably won't either! How sad that even the beautiful girls doing the modeling aren't good enough anymore.
Anyway, check it out :
http://astrology.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/was-the-photoshopped-ralph-lauren-model-fired-for-being-overweight-525248/
