Thanks to several women in the entertainment industry standing up for their curves, curvy women are slowly becoming more acceptable to be photographed. Think Christina Hendricks and Sofia Vergara. They are women who are kicking back and saying, "I like the way I look." Christina Aguilera is even embracing her new mommy curves, which is naturally getting a wide range of reactions from constant critics.
I follow some friends that are models on their internet sites, and there are a few niche fashion areas that I enjoy following as well. I'm a costumer, so it's no surprise that I like any new creative fashion. More often than not, when an online album of real women are posted wearing sexy clothing there are always hateful comments strewn amongst the good ones. People saying she shouldn't wear such things, larger women shouldn't wear sexy clothes. Or saying that a girl is too flat chested to be wearing such and such. Men and women have these reactions. Seems a little close-minded to me.
Our thin girlfriends are about to undergo the added scrutiny that the rest of us have been under for quite some time. "Reverse Photoshop" adds curves.
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Reverse Photoshop adds curves to models.
There's a part of me that jumps up and down and says, "Finally! The day I've been waiting for! Curves are acceptable!!" But let's not get carried away.
This method of digitally adding curves is no bueno. The entertainment/fashion industry is trying to be "cutting edge" with these curvier women, while the rest of us have been bored with having the identical model look for years. The problem with it all is that they are not hiring curvy women. They are simply adding curves to thin models.
So what, Miss Blogger? Isn't that good enough?
I say, NO.
Why? Because again it's an ideal. Instead of using actual women, they are creating curves on females' bodies who are not built that way. It's doing the opposite of self-esteem boosting. Now it's taking on thin bodies and pushing them to be curvier.
Why can't they let women be???
On the magazine covers above, both of those women had curves added to them. As long as they don't stop with major digital body alterations, women will never have a fair chance at understanding they they are normal. There is no normal in magazines or photos. And all of those normal women who are brave enough to model for smaller companies are hit with a constant barrage of criticism. "Too skinny." "Too fat." "Too this...too that..." It's our own fault. It's our cultural way of thinking. Tear women down if they take a sexy photograph and they do not look like Heidi Klum.
Well guess what? I bet the person making the nasty comment doesn't look like Heidi Klum either.
So be aware. Even if you start seeing these curvier women on magazine covers, they are just as not real as the thin ones. I have to at least give them a "C" for effort, though.
