Airbrushed to perfection

I am very impressed with myself, Big Brother has been going on for a while now (a month?) and I am not watching it!! I have watched most of the other Big Brothers, but this series I decided to avoid and have. It just goes to show, when you set your mind to something it can be achieved, even if it is just avoiding BB. If I wasn't with Veggie Hubby I would probably be watching it, as it passes the time easily, but he doesn't want me to watch it so I don't. In other unmarried years I was living mainly apart from VH so I could watch it, but this year with us sharing our little flat it wouldn't be fair of me to subject him to it.

Instead, Veggie Hubby and I watched a documentary presented by Alesha Dixon tonight, about the fashion industry's airbrushing obsession. I probably wouldn't have watched it, but her personality is so infectious, I thought I would give it a go. Alesha phoned around many magazines trying to get a photo of her on the front cover that wasn't airbrushed, and most were not interested. Surely Alesha is beautiful enough, she doesn't need airbrushing? It puts me off buying women's magazines actually, for putting up such fake images on their front covers. This is cheating the consumer. Of course, covers sell magazines, so it is not surprising but it is sad. What was interesting was that airbrushing is not so important for the men's magazines as it is for the women's/teenage girls mags. This is a pity as these distorted 'perfect' images of celebrities can lead to self-esteem issues and anorexia in impressionable young girls who look at them, and think that is how they should look.