IN CASE YOU NEED PROOF…
I like Eva Longoria, quite a bit, and so the point of this post isn’t a slam on her. Rather, it’s a perfect demonstration that she is a normal girl just like the rest of us. No girl is comfortable in her skin 100% of the time, and it’s completely understandable. Mainstream media bombards us with images that we ultimately know are largely fabricated, but the proof is often hard to find.
I’ve always said you can open any Victoria’s Secret catalogue and clearly see the airbrush marks and spots on inner thighs where excess inches have literally been cut away in photo programs. Sometimes, though, the best example is a side-by-side.
The photo on the left was shot for Bebe Sport’s recent campaign; the photo on the left was snapped just yesterday off the coast of Portofino, Italy.
Left Photo: Bebe Sport; Right Photo: Bauer-Griffin for People
She’s a real girl, ladies - with a healthy figure just like the rest of us.
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Funny thing is that the tabloid blogs are claiming she must be pregnant (so far not confirmed). Truth is, she is real like the rest of us, curves and all. Thank you for posting this.
I can remember seeing Jenny McCarthy on The Rosie O’Donnell Show way back when…she brought with her a poster of herself in a bikini. With a sharpie, she drew on the poster to show all the places that they had cropped and airbrushed her body…they had lifted her boobs, shaved inches off of her thighs and tummy, removed her zits and other symptoms of the PMS she claimed to be experiencing the day of the photo shoot, among other things. She said that she barely recognizes herself in ANY of the media images that are out there of her.
You really have to wonder when this “ideal” that can make us all feel so inferior isn’t even real to begin with…
Thanks for posting this, Keira. It’s nice to be reminded that nobody’s perfect…even though it looks that way when we flip through a magazine.
Oh you need to check out the “photoshop disasters” website/blog. It’s also amazing how “Celebrities Without Makeup” on the cover of the magazine makes it sell like hotcakes. John and I were at LD the other day in the line up commenting “um… none of them look bad at all!”
No ‘body’ is perfect.
that’s an ugly bikini.
Great find! Good to have that reality check every once in a while!
I like the bikini picture over the silver spandex pants.
Blemishes are for everyone. Anyone perfect has to be lying.
Left photo thru’ a man-lens. Right photo thru’ a real-lens… :0)
And you wonder why so many women (and girls) have such issues with body image.
Thanks for posting this, Keira. I still don’t think I can bring myself to wear a bikini just yet, but it does give me some hope.
It’s a shame that magazines and marketers still feel that images need to be doctored to showcase the “perfect” woman. It just feeds women’s insecurities.
And PS… yes, that is a horrible bikini
ahhhhhh, I love pictures like these. Real good for the world to see that we’re all just bones, skin, ripples and puckers. I used to be a real hardbody - was obsessed with it. Was. Now I’m a happy person.
and just read Rebecca’s comment…that’s exactly what I thought about the celebs without makeup. Some looked better in my eyes.