In the media today, every single image you see has been edited with Photoshop. Before it gets anywhere near your TV, computer or otherwise to your eyes, it is reduced, polished, colored, and altered to the point where the end result is no longer a reflection of the original model. Photoshop can be used in any way from removing a blemish on a person’s face, to thinning them down until they no longer are physically possible. Yet these images are what people see day after day, and after a time, they start to become normal.
When images such as these become normal, people begin to believe in them. Young boys and girls begin to wish to resemble the celebrities and models they see everywhere, but the only way they can possibly reflect the images they see, is to starve themselves to achieve that “ideal” weight and size. What these models achieve through photoshop, people are attempting through anorexia and bulimia.
What’s worse is when Photoshop is used to instead of take away pounds, add it on. There are models who in order to walk the runway, must be anorexic simply to make the cut on size. Photoshop editors can then polish over their protruding ribs and pronounced bones to make them appear healthy, at the most unhealthy weights possible.
These influences are causing sites that support anorexia and bulimia to appear. They support the idea that anorexia is healthy and a viable option to combat obesity.
Join in the fight to remove the use of Photoshop from the media and show models at the weights they are, letting everyone see that beauty is more than an arbitrary number.