Model Slams Swimsuit Company for Photoshopping Her to Look Skinnier: ‘This Industry is Crazy’

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/model-slams-swimsuit-company-photoshopping-her-look-skinnier-industry-crazy-1409316084



An Australian model is speaking out against a company that altered a photo of her body to appear several sizes smaller, saying she was “extremely shocked” to see the photoshopped image online after agreeing to participate in a photoshoot for the swimwear brand Fella Swim.

Meaghan Kausman posted the before and after photos to her Instagram account, declaring that “I refuse to stand by and allow ANY company or person to perpetuate the belief that ‘thinner is better.’” She pointed out that she’s a size 8, not a size 4, and all women’s bodies are beautiful. “This industry is crazy!!!! It is NOT OKAY to alter a woman’s body to make it look thinner,” she wrote in her Instagram caption.

[KitSileya]

1. Too many on DU would dismiss this as unimportant,

that it doesn't matter how women are portrayed in media because somehow, girls and women have a magical ability not to be influenced by all the images they see around them - all in order that patriarchy can keep women insecure and weak.

On a progressive site...less and less progressive, it seems.

[Scootaloo]

2. Wow, that is insane

News flash for the industry - women have internal organs! Yeesh. I've seen mummies with less concave abdomens than that photoshop gave her.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. the need for all of this could have been eliminated by taking another picture in a different pose.

the leg to the camera should be the straight one for one thing.

I blame the photographer not doing the job right.

[malthaussen]

4. Crazed. Definitely.

It's a most peculiar phenomenon, which I link for some reason to the use of barely-pubescent models in some advertisements. The message would appear to be that real women are not acceptable images.

-- Mal