- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Kate Winslet
- Keira Knightley
I think only when the stars themselves start calling out the photoshopping will the media stop using it at the rate they do.
In this blog I hope to track my adventures in fitness, food justice, gardening and body acceptance. I will do so with a critical eye--examining how anti-fat bias, economics, class, sexism, urban (suburban and rural) development deprives us of satisfying movement, and how health is collective and personal.
I think only when the stars themselves start calling out the photoshopping will the media stop using it at the rate they do.
Generally, I think that Beyonce is pretty upfront about what she has to do to "achieve" the desired effect for movies like "Dream Girls" (lose 20 lbs by fasting pretty much and drinking that cayenne pepper lemonaid that was popular a couple years ago) or "The Fighting Temptations" (at the time she gained 10 lbs to look more like a girl from Alabama).
ReplyDeleteWhen she's on tour or is singing, I think that's usually when she's most closely at her "natural" or set-point size--which isn't Hollywood Skinny, but not real people average by any means either.
I don't think that she has quite as much control over her image as say, Meryl Streep or Kate Winslet because when they are photoshopped to hell, they can (and will) do an interview blasting the publication. Beyonce is still in her 20's, they are older, and both Oscar winners. I think that she does what she can, like talking about how hard and sucky it was to get Dream Girls skinny, but maybe with age (and I think she's coming into her own power--for so long she was carefully handled by her parents). She may be able to fight back against the photoshop diet.