Women now a days have several insecurities of their bodies, but Meghan Trainor shows us with her song “All about That Bass” that there’s nothing wrong with having “all the right junk in all the right places.” By this she means regardless of not being a size two, you can still be proud of your body. Because of media women feel insecure of themselves; in magazines, posters, and advertisements the women are more often than not thin or “size two” but now we know that that’s not always what the photographer’s lens is really shooting. As Meghan Trainor sings, “I see the magazines, workin’ that Photoshop.” As an example, of magazine editing, the video Body Evolution shows the before and after behind every photo. These photos are edited to give correct curves and shape.
In the video Body Evolution they “perfected” a model by taking away all that made her, her. First they begin with regular hair and make-up, yet they added hair extensions and curled her hair because in today’s society long hair is considered beautiful. The same editors, editing the photos are who tell us that the longer the hair the more of a beautiful woman you are. Often, women with short hair, go to extensions or wigs to beautify themselves. After the basics, her photo is taken and then the real transformation starts. First they begin with her face, her freckles are erased, because imperfections are not something society sees as beautiful. When a woman first goes through puberty, she gets different imperfections, in example; freckles, pimples, and a different body shape. Because editors do these edits, these young vulnerable girls think these natural changes are wrong and get these awful lifelong insecurities. In the video, they reshape the model’s nose making it skinnier and longer, along with making her lips bigger. Her eyes, are drastically made much bigger, and wider. Next they move to her upper body, lifting her shoulders, taking major portions of her stomach, and made her breasts smaller. At the lower body they elongate her legs, and take portions of her calves to make long and skinny legs, they then make her feet smaller and more narrow. Lastly they change her skin color, give her an allover glow.
This is exactly what Meghan Trainor is trying to reverse; she wants everyone to realize that bodies are different and “every inch of you is prefect from the bottom to the top.” Her theme of the video is “Barbie”, so that she can show how real people are, and you can’t be a perfect Barbie doll. In the video she tries helping Ken out and giving him a smile and changing his position. Meanwhile she will not be a ”Stick figure Barbie doll.” she will be her perfect self that her mother raised her to love and if “Ken” doesn’t love “a little more booty to hold at night” then “go ahead and move along.”
The extent that editors are taking to transform these girls is ridiculous, and in reality is causing more harm than good. No wonder models always look so perfect! They aren’t real. Yet no one is going to strive to be as beautiful as someone with imperfections. Women are starving, and spending countless hours trying to improve what needs no more work. Women should not change for anyone; before you try loving anyone…you need to love yourself. Nobody says this better than John Legend: “All of me loves all of you. Love your curves and all your edges. All your perfect imperfections.”
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