Must Watch Video: The Airbrushing Video Will Change Your Ideas About What Your Body Should Look Like

 

A video posted this week by Upworthy further drives home another reason why we should not compare ourselves to the images of ‘ideal’ beauty. What if these perfect bodies (assuming that the overriding idea of perfect is a thin, long-limbed, toned, smooth-skinned, symmetrical creature) aren’t, in the flesh, ‘perfect’?

What if the media-perpetuated perfect body doesn’t even exist in reality? I’ve always known about the ubiquity of airbrushing but this minute-long video shows the leg-lengthening, eye-enlargening, collar bone-enhancing absurdity of it all. Don’t feel badly that you don’t look like a supermodel. Supermodels don’t even look like supermodels.

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