Body Image Activist, Eating Disorders mamaVISION

Marie Claire dares to place an unairbrushed photo on the cover of their magazine. No one gives a rip, instead focuses on the fact that the model is nude.

I just went on a big long rampage on this story on WeAreTheRealDeal here (part 1) and here (part 2) , so I’ll give you guys a synopsis, along with some specific commentary I want to make specifically to this eating disordered community.

Here’s the gist of it:

1) Former Miss Universe, model Jennifer Hawkins poses on cover of Marie Claire.

2) Hawkins is commended by The Butterfly Association for her efforts to “raise awareness about eating disorders,” (how exactly, no one has been able to figure out).

3) Her unairbrushed photo* supposedly shows “a slightly dimpled thigh.” (I have yet to see it, so let’s do a Where’s Waldo to try and find it).

*a new concept in Magazine production where the model actually appears as a human being “as is.” No computerized program is used to eliminate any/all signs of life.

My point here is the following, which I need to spit out before I have a heart attack:

1) This model does not, in anyway whatsoever, represent the “normal, average” girl/woman — so don’t even START kidding yourself. We live in a demented world.

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This is a good one — check out the side by side images of a “normal” skinny mini sized model next to Plus-sized model Crystal Renn, reported by Daily Mail.

In this soon to be published magazine editorial in V Magazine, hands down Renn is rockin’.  Now is this because she is a better model, does she have a better bod, or something else?

Here are their stats:

Renn, 5′9 age 23, size 16

pictured alongside fashion’s latest new face;

Jacquelyn Jablonski, 5′ 9, age 17, size zippo

See more pictures next page.

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Fake Twiggy vs Real Twiggy - C'mon people!

Tipster Cirsty clued me into this story, so I kept an eye on it, and sure enough this ad actually got banned!!

Finally, yesterday, the ASA banned the complete set of Olay Twiggy ads, ruling that the post-production retouching could give consumers a “misleading impression of the effect the product could achieve.”

WHAT? They wouldn’t do that…would they?

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Earlier this month, December 2009

Prior photo showing a more healthy looking Brittany

I woke up to the news that Actress Brittany Murphy had died. As actresses goes, she seemed to be relatively cool one, and really quite a beauty. To bad she didn’t know it.

Brittany died of cardiac arrest at age 32.

Rumors of drug use and plastic surgery addiction are also swirling.

The paparazzi vultures are all over this story at the moment, so as I bounced between TMZ and Huffington, the reports are all over the place, so I’ll keep an eye on the loss of this young talent.

But my gut tells me that the toxicology reports will come back with some sort of cause of death associated with the actresses recently shrinking frame and fragile appearance of someone who perhaps could not, would not, did not seek help for her ED.

Hooray for Hollywood,

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UPDATED 12/22/09…more information on reported heart condition, eating disorder and/or drug abuse

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