The same could be said about Sarah Murdoch on the cover of Women’s Weekly, looking beyond gorgeous, but entirely age-appropriate.
Both Sarah Murdoch and Jennifer Hawkins are models. They are genetically blessed individuals whose career relies on their looks. Raging about them as individuals is unfair on them and claiming that they are unfit role models because they are thin is ridiculous.
I absolutely agree that the average woman looks more like Bianca Dye who posed nude for Madison magazine a couple of months ago (and looks bloody amazing, in my humble opinion), but that wasn’t the point.
If you want to complain and rage about the airbrushing issue, do it over its misuse, not its lack of use. Complain about its misuse in the Ralph Lauren ad, where the model looks like malnourished skeleton. Complain about magazine covers where the celeb is 50, but has absolutely no wrinkles, and the skin of twelve year old.
Celebrate models/celebs who are brave enough to step out from airbrushing norm, and show that they do, in fact look just like the rest of us, and don’t judge those who were hit with the beauty gene wand just a little bit more than you or I.
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