First, it will come as a surprise to no one that Candice Swanepoel did not lose her Victoria’s Secret angel wings over the “too-skinny” controversy from a few months ago. But that doesn’t mean that Swanepoel is totally free and clear. She is still doing interviews, talking about her weight, her size and her overall health. Naturally, the professional model has been media-coached …
A British psychologist believes that the number of thin women on TV needs to be addressed, as this can trigger eating disorders in young women. The controversy has been especially hot in Britain recently due to the selection of sickly-looking contestant Cher Lloyd as the winner of the most recent season of X Factor. …
Damn you, Blunt! I want to hate you for marrying one of my pretend boyfriends (John Krasinski), but you just keep endearing yourself to me.
Via the Mail Online, Emily Blunt recently spoke out against airbrushing in a recent issue of Elle Magazine, saying:
‘I don’t like it when they stretch you out and make you all long and skinny. ‘It makes you look like a Barbie. Who the hell looks like that?’
Well said. What’s interesting is that the Mail opens its article with a slight misquoting of this line, saying:
Airbrushing makes you look like Barbie. Who the hell wants to look like that?
A slight, but rather important, difference. Unlike the …
The UK’s new Equalities Minister, Lynne Featherstone of the Liberal Democrat Party, has said that all women should aspire to be a UK size 14 (US size 10/12) with a buxom, hourglass figure, the UK’s Daily Mail reports today.
Ms. Featherstone has stated that women should not be made to feel inadequate by stick-thin models staring out at them from advertising billboards and magazines, and has suggested that all too often women are made to feel wretched about their size as they constantly compare themselves with ‘unattainable’ figures of celebrities and models.
Instead, Ms. Featherstone has said that women and girls should regard curvaceous women, such as Christina Hendricks (whose body type we’ve covered here on ZL before), as their role models. The minister described Hendricks, who plays Joan Holloway in the BBC drama Mad Men, as ‘absolutely fabulous.’
Ms. Featherstone has also said that the constant bombardment of the general public with the media’s images (often digitally-altered or airbrushed) of stick-thin models and …
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