DE1162 Emily Denton Body Image, age, sexuality, gender

DIVERSITY NOW! All Walks Beyond the Catwalk

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This the layout of my magazine that I am going to have. Focusing on the first photoshoot around my 900 word article and the second shoot around my 500 world digital article. I am going to combine on 2 pages a photograph and a quote from my work as looking at i-D this is something they often do and an element I can take from their publication and put into my own work.

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This is my favourite image and this is the main image I am working one of my photo-shoots around. I love how she is still posing as a model whilst holding the beauty ideal of society in her arms and showing that even though she maybe considered ‘curvy’ she is still a model and she is still posing. I think this image gives off a really powerful message for the fashion industry and its the same message that I want to give off, so am re-creating similar images to go into my magazine. I love the basic, nude, colouring with the bright red lipstick I think it all works well together and is really powerful.

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'I believe body positivity has the power to save lives'

Megan Jayne, 22, from Colchester, Essex, was hospitalised with anorexia and fed through a tube. Since recovering, she now shares body positive bikini photos on Instagram and has 39,000 fans.

This article really caught my eye, it is about a woman who was fought anorexia for years and she has now overcome it and is very confident in her own skin. At the age of 14 she was told that she only had weeks to live due to the serious condition, anorexia nervosa. After another five years Megan began to love her body and learnt again how to love her body. She started posting pictures of her ‘thunder thighs’ gaining lot of positive responses. 

She said: 'When I look in the mirror I see belly rolls, I see cellulite, I see a million flaws that have previously sent me spiralling into self hatred. 'But this time, I also see happiness.

'I see beauty, beyond the one dimensional photoshopped form we’re taught to aspire to. I see worth, that extends far past the physical. 'My vision is no longer clouded by the "not good enough" mentality we’ve all been taught about ourselves.'

Megan suffered from being body conscious from the age of 5, constantly comparing herself to other girls in her year. 

'I became an empty shell of a girl, still obsessing over whether my stomach was visible through my hospital gown.'

This is an example of what photoshopping can do and the effect that it can have on girls even as young as 5. Thankfully Megan over came anorexia and has seen that being perfect is not what being ‘real’ is all about. It is about loving your body as you are.

'I will be eternally thankful for my body, in all its imperfect beauty.’

She states, ‘I try to show people that the impossible beauty standards on our screens and in our magazines are not requirements for happiness’. 

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This is the type of inspiration and idols that young girls and women need to look up to. This is a positive step forward as it is once again bringing the negativity of photo-shopping into the media spot light.

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I really love the this image, and would also love to recreate my photoshoot along the lines of this photograph. As part of my project I'm not just looking at body size I'm looking at ‘real’ bodies, not just the size of the body but everything about the body. The skin of the body, and how real and beautiful it is, going on to talk about in my article now brands change the real beauty of the body and the skin into something fake. I like how this image is just on her mouth and part of her face. I like that we can see some of her natural beautiful ‘real’ skin.

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(via charli howard speaks out about the modelling industry's impossible standards)

An interview following up the previously posted article.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3294113/High-street-skeletons-know-painfully-catwalk-stars-reveal-deeply-worrying-vital-statistics-models-high-street-chains.html

This article is about young girls thinking they need to have the same shape as models and then unforntunatly this is where eating disorders start to happen. Linking it more with blaming brands appose to just the catwalk. Referring to the mannequins in Topshop being forced to be pulled down because they were too skinny. The Mail did an investigation and found that ‘every one of the models in their recent campaigns had a waist-to-height ratio below the healthy level.’ The report goes on to state that the average women BMI is 26.9 and these models are representing a much lower BMI how cant he brand be considering the consumer in their advertising? 

‘The more you force us to lose weight, the more designers have to make clothes fit our sizes, and the more young girls are being made ill.’

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Young women often look up to celebrities in order to want to either follow in their footsteps, follow their style or their body image. A lot of young girls would love to look like, lets say Beyonce. She is an idol to so many young girls and women across the world. However when she shares photos on her Instagram that are clearly photo-shopped, it begins to question how can we ever get a true and real representation of beauty if young girls idols are changing their bodies to something that isn't real. Magazines and catwalks have a major major influences on young women and girls, the photo-shopping done in campaigns, even to change the tiniest glitch makes the photo false. The tiny models that walk down the catwalk, young girls are made to think this is the only way to feel and be seen as beautiful. Now celebrities are changing images they are putting on their social media pages to millions of fans who look up to them. It makes you question how are young women and girls ever meant to have a normal and healthy perception of the world if these famous celebrities cant even promote their natural bodies on social media.

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(via watch winnie harlow meet her adorable mini-me, april star)

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I love this image, I saw it on an article on i-D online. I feel that it could be used to show the shy side of some people in the topic of body image within the fashion industry. The colours are really eye-catching. A potential idea for my photo-shoot.

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(via zendaya takes a stand against retouching)

This article stood out for me as this is what my article is partly based on. This young model had the courage to stand up and say that her images had been photo-shopped and she was not happy with it. Her hips had been made slimmer, the thighs and her make-up emphasised. 

"These are the things that make women self conscious, that create the unrealistic ideals of beauty that we have."

She received a lot of praise and positivity for her honesty and body positivity. This is a positive step for photo-shopping in the industry. This idol for many girls has stood up and said and will help many girls realise the dramatic changes that are made on photo-shop but is it enough to make other people stand up and say there needs to be a change? 

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Bigorexia – Never Buff Enough

This short film talked about Bigorexia, also known as muscle dysmorphia. The video stated that it is almost a reversed anorexia, and many cases go unnoticed, similar to anorexia. Going on to say that muscle dysmorphia is a condition where one doesn’t feel they are big enough. The film documented one man in particular, suffering from bigorexia he calls his body a work in progress and admits he will never completely beat bigorexia and will never be completely happy with his body.

Children as young as 15 are asking for steroids, similar to anorexia in terms of how people are influenced by media pressure, and how it is about obsession appose to vanity. A recent study found that around 1 in 10 men suffer with bigorexia at some stage. The condition can lead to serious health problems, depression and even cause death. According to reports 53% of boys aged 10-12 and 48% of boys aged 13-15 are concerned with how they are viewed by others. These statistics at such a young age are so high.

Bigorexia is a big problem in the industry but has not really come to light until recently with more documentaries being based on it. The fashion industry is very focused on women speaking of how body issues and conditions such as anorexia, but not enough light is shed on men who suffer from the same or similar conditions. With shocking statistics from reports about young boys being conscious of their bodies when they should be enjoying life is worrying. Just as women’s ‘perfect body image’ is beyond achievable so is men’s. In the film it stated ‘men aren’t meant to look like women’, proving how much influence the media and its impossible body ideals are doing to society.

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This video was done by a girl called Em Ford and was created to challenge peoples beauty perceptions. I feel the video highlights more than just what body image is, not just about the body but about the whole face, how it is not just industry that can make people feel insecure about themselves but society too from the influence of the media. She has suffered from acne all of her life, and this video that she has made proves that we as a society are so used to seeing false images in the media, photoshopped images that society don't remember what is normal. We continually compare ourself to unrealistic untrue standards that we don't remember that everyone is beautiful. I feel this video highlights another part of body image, beauty and how the fashion industry and media have a major influence on people to have unrealistic standards of beauty not just what our body looks like.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTRwj9t-vU)

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How do we see ourselves?