Airbrushed Magazine Covers

I had remembered seeing this picture  surfacing the web of Jennifer Lawrence. I immediately looked at the two pictures. I was surprised to see how almost identical the two pictures were, but was saddened me was that the magazine would airbrush Jennifer when her original picture looked amazing to begin with. In a society where there is this idea of what a perfect body should look like, but when even those in the public don’t even match up to that expectation, what kind of message does that leave?

I agree with Jessie when she brings up the point of  who comes up with what to “fix” on a person on a magazine cover. It has become okay for many magazines to do this to whatever star is on the cover, giving the audience such a false hope of having this so called idealistic body.

Both men and women suffer from some sort of body insecurity, it doesn’t help that people we see on t.v. shows and movies who are already expected to look a certain way, are put on a magazine cover or promotional poster then in fact they are touched up to fix those so called imperfections that are deemed unacceptable to show to the world.

Going back to Jennifer Lawrence’s magazine cover, as Jessie mentions in her blog post is that Jennifer has repeatedly told magazines to not airbrush her. She tries to be a good role model in the sense so be proud of your body and all imperfections with it, but how far must someone go to get the point across?

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