To raise awareness for National Body Image Week, stars of all sizes celebrate their beautiful bodies by posing in their smalls for the latest issue of Who (on newsstands today), including former TV personality Toni Pearen, now 5.5 months pregnant."I've had all-day sickness and all-night sickness but when I get over all the difficulties it is an absolute miracle," Pearen says.
Nice to see pregnancy featured but perhaps a more realistic view would have been more progressive or would speak to the importance of body image on a deeper level. It kind of annoys me that we are supposed to feel really happy that magazines take the time to feature bodies of 'all shapes and sizes' but in reality, these are still celebrity bodies and Pearen is totally glammed up. I mean, seriously, Pearen admits she doesn't wake up in the morning feeling fantastic so it seems kind of strange to position her a la Demi Moore as though pregnancy hasn't changed the way she thinks about her body. And why does she have to be practically naked to be proud of being pregnant? How much do you want to bet she spent the last few weeks agonising over the photo shoot, ensuring her bump looked perfect? And how much photoshopping went into the final result?
ANNOYING.
2 comments:
I think she looks great. :)
I think she looks great too, but I also have to wonder how much photoshopping went into this shoot for all involved. It seems to me to be quite alot. Who do these shoots seemingly every second month but I'm yet to see a series of photo's that I think are true to life.
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