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I really love the message that is being sent by Glamour Magazine's editor, Cindy Leive. Below is my favorite part of the article. Although the whole thing is worth the read. She is talking about how moving forward they want to show more "realistic" women after receiving a lot of positive feedback about a picture in their magazine of a woman smiling, wearing nothing but a string bikini, and having an "unperfect" body. She starts out setting the record straight about how she is not saying one type of body is more desirable than another:
To be clear, I'm not on the "real women have curves" bandwagon here, arguing that only bodies like Lizzie's are "real"---and that slender women are all unreal waifs who should just eat a cheeseburger and get over themselves. Turning the tables so we can bash one type instead of another isn't the answer. Celebrating the fact that we're all born different is. Think about it: In real life, women of all shapes and sizes have crazy sex appeal and killer confidence. Why should our own pages look any different?
We'll do our best to live up to this standard in the future: shooting models who diverge in every way from the cookie-cutter norm. Is it a retreat from fantasy? Of course not: If we wanted unadulterated reality, we could just print everyone's driver's-license picture. But I happen to think that a fantasy every reader can have a piece of is the most powerful fantasy of all. Thank you for encouraging us to try to provide it, and for pointing the way forward here. Your words inspire me daily.
I just LOVE how she is encouraging women with every type of body, not just the "skinny" girls or the "curvy" girls. We are all beautiful!
I also like how she talks a little bit about fantasy. We all know that the fashion industry sells a "fantasy" and if they didn't we wouldn't be interested.
Are the boudoir images I take a little bit fantasy? Yes, I would say they are. They are images of you carefully crafted to show your best assets, but also your true beauty and confidence.
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