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http://www.strongmindbraveheart.com/10- ... photoshop/

Seen something similar to this before but it was a video of a girl being photographed and then touched up after. There's hope for us yet people. Plenty of cellulite seen, which is totally normal on my opinion.

Wooop thanks for that, my thighs actually look better than some of them

There is so much pressure on youngsters to look perfect. I was in Norwich last summer for a hen night and all the girls had hair extensions, fake tans, fake nails, were really skinny, really tall or wearing incredibly high heels or both, wearing micro clothes. They all looked like Stepford Wives, nothing original or memorable about any of them. So sad. Glad my boys like girls without makeup.

My coworker showed me this just today! Isn't that refreshing? I have a beautiful stepdaughter who questions everything she puts in her mouth in order to try and attain an unrealistic expectation of beauty/body image. Everything is so skewed these days. But it is nice to realize what people really look like. Now if we could just focus more on being healthy and happy vs. an unrealistic body type (that doesn't even exist in the starlets we see LOOK that way in magazines) we would be much happier. Happy Tuesday everyone!

Everything is making its way south, but surprisingly I don't have lemon peel thighs.
Seems everything does, in fact, defy 'age defying'.

Oh I know I'm being really mean but that has really made my day!! Thanks @Carieoates as you say, there's hope for us every day folk after all!

Saucer of milk for table 2 please...

Bean

[carieoates]

Thought it would make a few people happy.
Job done.

Mmmmm.....don't feel too bad for an old lady now, thanks,

Ballerina x

I'm going to play devil's advocate for a minute here....
Of course these stars don't look like their photoshopped images, we all know that (well, unfortunately our teenagers probably don't know that).
But couldn't the "untouched" images have also been photoshopped to add wrinkles and fat in order to sell to the supermarket rags, so they could put "shocking" pictures of stars on the covers? Seems entirely possible to me.

Oh what?!!

No, I think when models are off work and in their hols, they are just human like us...and let it all hang out! It makes them more endearing doesn't it.

Aren't they supposed to be clamping down on airbrushing and photoshopping in order to protect young vulnerable people?

Bean

More than anything on this subject, i agree that young girls shouldnt feel pressure to look " perfect".
I think there might well be some truth in what @wendyjane say, in some of the worse pics anyway..
...surely their cellulite can't be as bad as mine! They're only young women!..
I'm shocked by Kesha's pic..can that really be her? Looks like someone totally different,much older and different body shape entirely.
Thanks carie,it IS very cheering to see those pics..
however,can music videos be photoshopped...coz you never see a wrinkle or a lump on them either! X

If it wouldn't be so tragic I would say HAHA!! Imagine - those loooooong legs are really short stocky ones and flat 6 pack tummies, as flabby as mine.

But if it's something as common today as these twisted ringlet extensions (like HRH Princess Madeleine and her pals) that g-d and everyone famous today is having, it's duck lips. You know - not normally plump ones, but really ducky!! Why? Whyyyyyy do women/girls do that to themselves? It just look plain horrible.

Well I'm no fan of botox either, no matter my age and no matter that I was offered it as re-constructive plastic work after the Bells Palsy? These stiff facial expressions - even on young women?? Don't get it....OK, can't say that I'm that fond of my wrinkles and grows...nor the boobs moving south, but I do prefer the natural me over anything else.

Of my soap box

Wow, how much better does Cameron Diaz look in the un photoshopped image? Quite a lot of them look way better without the photoshopping.

[carieoates]

I have to say that when celebs bring out a fitness regime and or diet and or video they're told to look the worse they can before it so that they get papped looking flabby. Saw an interview with Natalie Cassidy saying this and she's now a size 12-14, eats healthily, very happy and now exercises a few times a week.

I know it's probably a pile of publicity poo but to be honest it's made me feel a bit happier about my cellulite and fat knees.

Also nadia sawala, also now a size 12-14 but was totally miserable trying to keep to a size 10-12 as she said she had "no life"

All this said, it also proves that fasting doesn't turn you unto a "misery" as we aren't all on here constantly moaning about this that and not being allowed to have this and that. As we know we can have it tomorrow.

We are all beautiful, we just don't all know it yet.

Totally agree @Wolfie it is very sad what celebs are now looking like being overdone with collagen fillers with puffed up faces and lips eg the trout pout then in go the cheek implants and work around the mouth with all the smiles looking similar. Then the gone wrongs as you say with the smiles which look like they have had a stroke or have Bells Palsy or those foreheads where there is not a wrinkle. Find I am often saying to DH she or he has had 'work done'. Poor DH doesn't know what I am talking about.

Grow old gracefully or disgracefully I say just loving who you are. It is good though we have the tools to develop a very healthy eating style and look radiant naturally through losing weight and getting rid of unhealthy levels of sugars and fats and carbs