The Perfect Woman (Part 1)

The mixed media messages and the reactions I hear from both boys and men continually blows me away. Ads and the fashion industry glorify tall, rail thin gals. Most men say they prefer disproportionately shaped gals (aka "D"+). Yet, most gals are average.

Neither extreme is healthy and to have either of them glamorized as "ideal" is downright scary.

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• Option 1
  Starve/purge/drug to get and stay thin + get breast implants.


• Option 2
  Go Jayde Nicole/Heidi Montag, lipo and Botox everything + get huge breast implants.


• Option 3
  Go straight for "Rapper's Delight" (AKA "Coco-ified") by getting huge breast and butt implants.

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JLo's "big butt" is a size 6. Mindy Kaling is an 8. Megan Fox has admitted to wearing chicken cutlets, you know, those fake boob things. Halle Berry has breast implants. Now, let's look at a picture of the much touted, "Perfect Woman".

Yes, it's Angie and yes, I defaced her pic with my captions.



If you look closely at some of her un-Photoshopped pics on the internet, you'll see that - while she is a naturally beautiful woman - she's also very, very thin. Bony, in fact. You can see the veins in her arms and forehead. Some pictures even show a distinct difference in her nose. I.e. she may have had a little help achieving said "perfection".

Don't get me wrong, I love me some Angelina Jolie movies but she's not perfect. Not one of the people we worship are.

The bottom line is that there's a lot of money to be made on people who try to "buy" the "dream" product. Meanwhile, NONE of the people we worship as "perfect" actually IS perfect. They've got an army of assistants to keep the image, and both photographers and companies who benefit from peddling the image.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to enhance your image or change something about yourself that you are not happy with. The problem comes when we start to believe that there is something wrong with us, with our uniqueness, and the changes would be made to fit someone else's idea of ideal.

Stay Tuned!
In Part 2, we'll be lifting the privacy curtain to see how some of our favorite magazine and television commercials are styled. Hint: Things are not always as they seem!

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