Her body is not perfect.....and I love her for it

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  • Blue801
    Blue801 Posts: 442
    Love it! Thanks for sharing.
  • HeidiMightyRawr
    HeidiMightyRawr Posts: 3,343 Member
    Love this, thank you for sharing it!

    I was shocked at first when I saw her runway pic, and then the next shot of her stomach that they're in the same week! It's hard to believe but when you think about it, if you do prepare yourself for that kind of event and all that in entails, and then go back to normal it can make a huge difference. My stomach sometimes looks a hell of a lot different first thing in the morning to after dinner and I'm not even trying to look runway ready!
  • love2lift_85
    love2lift_85 Posts: 356 Member
    Bump. Thanks for posting!
  • Booksandbeaches
    Booksandbeaches Posts: 1,791 Member
    Good article! Thanks for posting it here.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Great article. I like how she said everyone has thigh cheese and that it's normal.

    There needs to be more exposure for this type of stuff.
  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    Photoshop. Clearly.

    Because my belly looks like the "later that same week" photo, and I don't care how much I flex, or how tan it is, it aint going to look like the runway shot in the same week, unless it is faked.
  • nyboer
    nyboer Posts: 346 Member
    Tx for posting!
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Love it...and now am not to concerned with that itty bitty part on my thighs.
  • tempehforever
    tempehforever Posts: 183 Member
    I remember reading an interview with a VIctoria's Secret model not that long ago, where she revealed that in order to be "show ready" for their big runway shows, she has to stop eating solid food one week before the show, and stops drinking any water 48 hours prior to the show. It's crazy to me that in order to show "perfection" women have to starve and dehydrate themselves, and the masses who don't know that continue to try to attain the unattainable. As someone who has struggled with body image, Iwill say it took me a long time to post the pic I have up now as my main profile picture because I saw so much wrong with it. It's not on par with those glossy perfect magazine pictures..... I'm glad so many women are willing to expose their true selves and let the rest of us know that we are probably more like them than we thought we were.
    Marcia Cross (who played Bree on Desperate Housewives) has said the hardest part is staying that thin, that she sees her job as being paid to not eat and it's a living hell.

    I think that's sad. She was so thin you could usually see her ribs on her chest if her shirt was low cut. I'm glad I have no aspirations to act. It's good to see actresses like Gabourey Sidibe getting serious work.

    Doesn't it make you glad not to have to be an actress or a model? I'm sure as hell glad that my career doesn't depend on perfecting my appearance. :) Thank god, haha.
  • chatogal
    chatogal Posts: 436 Member
    love it!!!
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    Thanks for sharing.

    Now that I'm a full grown adult I understand how the human body works. But, I wish I had seen stuff like this when I was younger. I had fully defined/visible abs, but I still felt bad if it poked out the tiniest bit when I sat down or breathed in deeply. We see thing so much more clearly in hindsight. And even though I'm better now, my husband tells me I am still too hard on myself and don't see myself the way he and others do, and that someday when I look back I will realize that as well. I enjoyed being pregnant because I felt like I didn't have to worry about my perfect abs anymore while I was pregnant.
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    Photoshop. Clearly.

    Because my belly looks like the "later that same week" photo, and I don't care how much I flex, or how tan it is, it aint going to look like the runway shot in the same week, unless it is faked.

    It is the different e between bloated and dehydrated. They do it all the time in bodybuilding.
  • journey_man
    journey_man Posts: 110 Member
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    So this is the "unrealistically good" picture of lady gaga? How can anyone (1) fail to notice the grotesquely small size of the body (look at the hands!!!), and (2) think this looks good?
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    Gaga's face and hair look better than usual there but her body looks deformed, like an alien, or an insect. (No, I'm not body shaming the girl, I'm saying they photoshopped her and/or strapped her into some industrial corset.)
  • invisibubble
    invisibubble Posts: 662 Member
    Ah, we need more of this kind of honesty. Thanks for sharing.
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    but I just find that hard to believe. I am not as fit as her runway photo but the difference of my stomach from day to day doesn't look like that much...that's a lot of difference...did she stick the stomach on purpose just to make her point further? I am curious...
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    I figure she ate no carbs for a week, did some serious dehydrating, accentuated her ab lines with makeup, pumped things up hard before the runway and barely breathed while on it.

    Then had a feast the whole following week from being starved and photographed the bloat from that.
  • cafeaulait7
    cafeaulait7 Posts: 2,459 Member
    but I just find that hard to believe. I am not as fit as her runway photo but the difference of my stomach from day to day doesn't look like that much...that's a lot of difference...did she stick the stomach on purpose just to make her point further? I am curious...

    I think part or most of it is that she has really bad posture just standing there, lol. So she is kind of sticking it out, but I bet not on purpose. Anyone can let their tummy all hang out and it'll look big. She might want to use those abs to hold her more upright while just bumming around (or whatever she's doing in those pics) :D:D

    She was probably bloated, too, yeah. Or at least not extremely dehydrated like for her event.
  • sarahslim100
    sarahslim100 Posts: 485 Member
    thanks
  • smilesback
    smilesback Posts: 327 Member
    Thanks sara for bringing this. I like how women are applauded for what they do to teach self-acceptance. This is a sacrifice for some women to do this. so thanks, but I am still responsible to accept and love myself as the beautiful, unique individual that I am becoming. And I am 62!
  • _rozamu
    _rozamu Posts: 119 Member
    nice, thanks for sharing

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