From the Guardian (full article here):
Some grow out of it, some don’t. But with girls increasingly pushed towards pink and princesses, being a tomboy these days takes pluck.
A collection of US Weekly covers from 2008:
From US Magazine
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Yoga isn’t the only reason Jennifer Aniston looks good naked!
The actress made a confession about her sexy GQ cover when she appeared on The View on Wednesday.
“What happened to the girl next door from Friends?”Barbara Walters asked, holding up the January issue, where Aniston appears wearing only a tie.
“She’s there! Photoshopped!” Aniston, 39, replied.
From The Guardian (full article here):
“Yeah, those boiled faces!” she says, when I bring up the tricky subject of her female colleagues’ waxwork skin. “Scary. They go in [to see their doctors] saying: make me look like myself – or like myself 20 years ago. But you know, I have a movie out now and I can’t bear to watch it. I see myself up there, and it’s not normal to scrutinise your own face on a screen this big; it’s like opening a vein. So I do have some compassion for Nicole Kidman, or whoever, who has obviously looked at her face and sort of dissected it, like it’s a thing. I don’t want to be the poster child for wrinkles, and that’s what they make you if you speak out about that whole culture. So I don’t, mostly. But it has gotten so ridiculous as a job. [At the film festivals] the celebrities are dragging their movies in, going ‘look at this!’ instead of the movie being the thing, and they’re just there to support it. It’s a case of: ‘Look at my dress, at my hair, at my face and … oh, by the way, there’s a movie here, too!’ I have this character in my head. She keeps appearing places: on trains, in the city, on the highway. I see her out there. She is heroic, but not like any hero we’ve ever seen. Society makes women of a certain age invisible. It’s convenient. Remember our mothers? How inconvenient they were to us? It’s like that, on a grand scale. In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb. And now I feel like I could be the woman to play this role: the invisible woman.” Only no one is writing these kinds of parts. “Roles for women. There aren’t any. They’ve been saying that since the 1920s, and it’s true. [My theory is that] women don’t write enough. Because who do they expect to write these roles? Men?”
via Jezebel.
by Natasha Singer
Excerpt:
ACADEMICS who study body image and body modification said it is too soon to know how financial constraints might alter attitudes toward beauty maintenance. But several researchers forecast how consumers might reappraise the idea of appearance upkeep in light of basic needs, family obligations, romantic aspirations, professional status and personal values. Although a recession may propel some people to seek more procedures, many consumers will reduce or forego cosmetic treatments, they said.
Full article here.
From: The Daily Mail (UK)
Most women would be only too happy have Jessica Alba’s stunning figure.
Just five months after the birth of her first child, the 27-year-old actress showed off her body in a series of plunging beachwear and skimpy tops for a new calender.
But those feeling envious can now breath a sigh of relief … because even Jessica’s curves were airbrushed before her latest pictures were released.
Full article here: The Daily Mail (UK)