Random Stuff - April 19th, 2011
I’m aware that advertisers distort women’s bodies to make them look more “ideal.” Boobs are enlarged, waists are shrunk, etc. etc. It’s not often that such a distortion actually lands in my mailbox, however. I received this mailer from Sephora today, and I couldn’t help but notice there was something a little …odd about the model’s legs. Namely, How on earth are they attached to her body?
The more I stare at this picture, the more creeped out I get by it. Surrounded by images like this, is it any wonder women have poor self-esteem? No one can have legs like that. Not even the model. Because it exists only in the land of Photoshop.
Are you referring to how the legs look too long for the model’s body (unless she has Marfan Syndrome)? Or to how they look awkwardly twisted in the sockets, like mine do from my Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome? Although, if her hip sockets are *really* that loose, she’d be on a self-propelled gurney, in wheelchair, or on crutches or a walker, so the maybe the Photo-Shop Fail was either erasing her crutches, or she was laying down & PS rotated her to standing? <;-)
I’m going with too long AND awkwardly twisted in the sockets. Maybe she has two sets of hips?
Miss Jupiter, I nearly spit coffee on my keyboard! I agree, though, the pic is very odd (I got my mailer yesterday), and I had to bury under the rest of the mail until I was ready to leaf through it. My Miss America wish is for normal sized models!