Supermodels Uncovered - a short film by Dove

[waywardsis]

See how models get from the makeup chair to the billboard - and how what we're seeing isn't even close to reality.

Evolution (http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.ca/flat2.asp?id=6852)

[Nancy LC]

Wow. :|

Ok, is it too short now?

[AFwife]

I saw that today on E NEWS.....sad how they cheat us out of our money.

Anything to make a buck.

[nawchem]

Wow, the makeup I expected but the computer part was freaky!

[KvonM]

i'm amazed some of those girls even recognize themselves up on those billboards. i'd seen stuff on how they do magazine covers, using airbrushing to tighten thighs and elongate arms too. that's just freaky.

[Angeline]

This is a bit of a tangent but ...

I was watching What Not To Wear today, and it feature a 20 something girl named Amanda. She still fit (and wore) some of the clothes she had when she was 14.

She was a tiny little thing, with a pretty gamine face, and the hosts moslty objected to the fact that most of the clothes that she wore made her look 12 years old.

The thing that bothered me is how they went on and on and on and on about what a great body she had, and how most women would DIE for her body.

She was gorgeous, there is no doubt about that. But what is it about our society that the ideal female body is that of a 14 year old.

[LilithD]

Wow, amazing film, one has to ask how long they are going to bother with models at all any more. Wouldn't it be much easier to just computer generate the whole thing?

[Angeline]

According to my coworker, this has been done already. A few companies, like Coca-cola in Japan have run ads with computer generated models that you could not tell from real people.

[Analog6]

Just brings home how unreal the image promoted by the media is, and how unattainable by real people.
I read an article which said Angelina Jolie will not allow a photo showing her thighs to be published unless they are slimmed down in Photoshop.
And we think WE have image problems!

[Goddessrhi]

I sent the link to all my female co-workers. It's terrible how we look to unreal images and hate ourselves for not matching up.

[sunkizzed]

yup its true freaky my exboyfriend works for an effects studio and they do the pantene commercials he does all the touch up work on the computer when he showed me one day i was astonished, than he laughs and says i give all the girls there complexes haha butt head

[Lisa N]

what is it about our society that the ideal female body is that of a 14 year old.

Our society worships youth and fears aging (or at least showing it), so it doesn't surprise me at all that the 'ideal' body seems to be that of a 14 year old girl.
Look how common botox injections and plastic surgery to minimize the signs of aging have become. There is no shortage of products promising to 'erase wrinkles' and 'restore youthful looking skin'.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to look your best at any age but IMO, it's being taken to extremes these days.

[potatofree]

What scares me is the number of women having plastic surgery to try to look like the models...who don't even look like the pictures of them in the first place.

I remember reading an interview with Cindy Crawford. She was on teh subject of makeup and airbrushing and has spoken out about it to girls groups. When she's all done up fpr the camera, she refers to herself as "the thing"... since she feels like it's not even HEr anymore.