We magnify the body, we perfect the silhouette, we help to cheat That was said about push-up bras by a woman who manages a French company which invented them. A bra now being marketed to girls who haven’t even hit their teens and, mostly, will not possess anything that needs support, let alone need a […]
First up, Lydia Turner (discovered here first!) in ABC’s The Drum Unleashed today about the failure of “weight-loss” dietary products and the death and injury they cause. Then Julie Bindel on men who use prostituted women and why, followed by a podcast with Diane Levin, co-author with Jean Kilbourne of So Sexy So Soon: The new […]
A special guest blog posting by Lydia Jade Turner on the Jennifer Hawkins Marie Claire photoshoot controversy. Lydia is Director and Public Health Advocate with BodyMatters Australasia and an Allied Health Professional specialising in eating disorders prevention. As an Allied Health professional specialising in the field of eating disorders, it has been interesting to observe […]
This on Nine MSN At last we can see “plus sized” women posed seductively, mouths parted slightly, dull eyes staring off into the distance, draped over some inanimate object looking passive and desperate for male attention.
Thought this Letter to the Editor in The Australian today from Leanne Torres in response to my Jennifer Hawkins piece yesterday deserved reprinting: IT’S wonderful, in theory, that a major women’s magazine is willing to admit its own “flaws” by publishing a picture of a woman whose body has been untouched by technology’s scalpel. However, […]
SHOCK horror: nude supermodel has dimple on thigh. In a move labelled daring and revolutionary, this month’s edition of Marie Claire features nude photos of Australian model Jennifer Hawkins airbrush-free. The shoot reveals “brave” Jen with all her flaws. And what exactly are these impediments? A tiny crease in Hawkins’s waist, a slightly dimpled thigh […]
