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The Perfect Body?

Posted: 23/01/2012 00:00

Loving your body, be you man or woman, should be intrinsic. Loving your body shouldn't be split by those who have the perfect curves and those who don't. Take note Ulrika Jonsson.

Following New Look's lingerie campaign featuring the 'perfectly' sized and shaped Kelly Brooke, the actress/ model said that all women should love their bodies and should avoid plastic surgery.

Jonsson retaliated (if that's even possible) by writing a column in the Sun raising the issue that some women need to have surgery because they aren't perfectly shaped like she is.

Her argument is that after having four kids and hitting a certain age, her boobs sagged and her stomach bulged. So she wanted to replace her "'fun bags'".

I have a few issues with this.

Firstly, why on earth would you try to denounce someone that is trying to make women feel good about themselves as they are without the need for products and surgery?

Secondly, Mother Nature has made us the way we are and we should embrace that. If we get saggy tits, so what?! There is something truly wrong about paying someone to slice you apart and change your appearance when there is nothing wrong with you in the first place.

Thirdly, and this is my main point, women have been made to feel lowly of themselves because beauty companies, advertising and the media sell them the notion that they are not perfect without the next beauty product or surgery to improve them and make them into an ideal. Without consumerism and capitalism we wouldn't think these things. It's only an idea that has been sold to us. Yet this idea has been so ingrained in our society, people actually believe it to be true. Hence Jonsson's outburst. What is the perfect body after all?

Jonsson has entirely missed this point. But it is worrying that women like her feel so insecure. And it is only because she has fallen for this beauty myth. I am the first one to admit that I love make-up. But I know on what grounds it has sold to me, and I am fully aware of why I am using it.

But this has to change. Yet it won't if people like Jonsson attack women because they themselves feel inferior. Where's the sisterhood in that?!

 

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Loving your body, be you man or woman, should be intrinsic. Loving your body shouldn't be split by those who have the perfect curves and those who don't. Take note Ulrika Jonsson. Following New Look...
Loving your body, be you man or woman, should be intrinsic. Loving your body shouldn't be split by those who have the perfect curves and those who don't. Take note Ulrika Jonsson. Following New Look...
 
 
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14:59 on 23/01/2012
Plastic surgery has given us bodies like Katie Price and in reality I suspect most men are happy to look at it but would not want to actually lay with it.
Yes ,plastic surgery does produce bodies which look younger than they actually are but do women do it for themselves or so that anyone looking at them are impressed ?
Thats the real question.From this mans point of view,yes they look great but when the lights are off and you are snuggled up does it make any difference? I dont think so
Most women are suckers and are brainwashed by lipstick ads which offer a kiss or shampoo ads that offer glamour with creams and potions offering a younger look,all rubbish of course
.Most also seem to wear far too much make up with younger women generally not having t a clue how it should be used.
All in all the topic rather makes women out to be people who spend their lives trying to impress others.
03:13 on 23/01/2012
Good engineers and designers know perfectly well that work of nature is very difficult to replicate.
If you slap Angelina's face on anybody you will get somebody less beautiful .
21:48 on 22/01/2012
The perfect body is one YOU feel comfortable in in spite of what culture's spin doctors tell you you need to be like, feel like look like, etc. The perfect body comes from looking and thinking outside culture's box and being happy with what an who you are.