Air Brushing – Air Brush

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<<  Maybe no one was meant to be 15-20 lbs underweight, according to the Maker, or else we would have been made with less of a need for food, and less of a need to punish ourselves because we do eat. now if we all can just convince our hearts and souls of that ~ eh?!? great thinking, pondering post! thanks, karla kdeer ~ wandering through the forest of recovery experiencing many glorious moments of peace and joy these days =)

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So many of the celebrities…are so thin.  But my question is, how do they get that way?  Working out constantly?  When they have auditions, gigs, rehersals, pr, and so many other things, let alone their parties, friends, and families?   Kate Moss, waif model, brags about how she is going out to eat a baked potato, "dripping with butter."  Brad Pitt(though I am a huge fan) and Gwyneth Paltrow are skeleton thin in those internet naked pictures, yet he talks about how she often comes to the set of the movie he’s working on with "truckloads of food."  In alt.showbiz.gossip, they are talking about the blind item, where someone is said to be spending so much time in the dentist’s chair because they are suffering from bulimia and it is ruining their teeth.  They say that it refers to Courney Cox.  There is a special on E! about Margoux Hemmingway, the beautiful model, and her tragic life, including belimia.  Karen Carpenter and Tracey Gold suffered from anerexia. So my next question is, is the thinness that many strive for even natural? Are the stars even killing themselves to look like themselves?  Maybe no one was meant to be 15-20 lbs underweight, according to the Maker, or else we would have been made with less of a need for food, and less of a need to punish ourselves because we do eat.

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Also, know that print models do to necessarily look the way they do when you see them.  There is a lot of airbrushing oing on.  I see what they do in re art for music albums.  Poeple have hipos shaved and stomachs shaved, etc.  It’s amazing.

Seconded. Any ad you see in print can easily have been modified by computer or airbrush.  I work in the graphics software industry, believe me. I recall seeing on The Learning Channel a show called The Human Animal.   One ep was on "beauty" – made a strong case that a lot of what we call beauty is defined by our culture and not innate.  Also showed a person manipulating an image for a magazine, taking the model’s legs and lengthening them by 20% so that she looks more sexy (something to do with childbearing) and, not coincidentally, more thin. /Steve

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many are naturally thin.  i knwo that many also suffer fomr e.d.s but from what I understand, those intreatment are nto vrey high profile. I know that the ones I knwo are simply helathy and they work out wihtout being obsessive, etc.   Also, know that print models do to necessarily look the way they do when you see them.  There is a lot of airbrushing oing on.  I see what they do in re art for music albums.  Poeple have hipos shaved and stomachs shaved, etc.  It’s amazing. regardless, we shoudl enver use a celeb  as a yardstick for ourrsleves becasue we dontl knw one way or the other.

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So many of the celebrities…are so thin.  But my question is, how do they get that way?  Working out constantly?  When they have auditions, gigs, rehersals, pr, and so many other things, let alone their parties, friends, and families?  

     About 3 to 5 percent of the general population has an inefficient metabolism, and does not gain weight easily.  Many of the people in these professions fall into that group because of the current cultural standard that looks at thinness as desirable.  There are way more people in those professions who don’t meet that criteria, but are not as high profile.   There are also many who have EDs and hide it.  You mentioned a few, but the known list is much longer.        About the same percentage of the population has a high IQ score. They also often end up as high profile people – perhaps everyone should strive to be more like that group.   Think of the problems:  compulsive learning,  over-educated, too well read, too artistic and creative, overproductive,  solves too many problems,  but is ultimately still not happy.   Humans, being what we are, can turn anything into a problem. Thank goodness I went into psychology, I’ll never be out of work!        Take care,           Bryan. —   No one can make a redwood tree out of a magnolia. The best we can do is eliminate the aphids in the magnolia. We don’t have to change, we just have to do the best we can at being ourselves. No one should expect more than that of others, or of themselves.

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