21.10.12

Can’t always believe what you see.

 When Victoria’s Secrets models are regularly airbrushed to “look better”, surely it’s a sign that the apocalypse is nigh. These women are considered the world’s most beautiful and are paid cash mountains to model underwear. Their only job is to look good. And yet even they’re not “good enough”.
  Erin Heatherton, Victoria’s Secret Angel and girlfriend of Leonardo DiCaprio, said this about the use of photoshop by Victoria’s Secret, recently exposed online: “We’re not selling reality; we’re selling a story. It’s all about creating this fantasy. Retouching is an essential part of our job.”
  She also reckons body image has nothing to do with fashion imagery. “I think that’s something children should be taught by their parents. It should be taught in schools.” Except that 99 per cent of us don’t realise the images we see have been airbrushed because there’s no fine print to tell us.
  And if women like Miranda Kerr and 180cm Erin Heatherton aren’t considered slim or flawless enough to escape the airbrush, there’s something very, very wrong with this picture.

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