Single hen

[Egluntyne]

Have a look at this.

 

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/

 

Thought provoking.

[kannie]

Thanks for posting this Egluntine! When I saw those ads with real women in, I kept meaning to look at their website, but just forgot (busy tube passages aren't the best places to write 'to do lists'!)

 

The short film clip is very telling - will delve further later on.

[aqualiv]

Very good

I wish I was shown it as a teenager

Olivia

[theherd123]

I have heard about this campaign and think its a great idea - positive body image at long last - it has been a while coming!!

 

Cant see the film though I only get the sound!

[Egluntyne]

I think most of us would be delighted to look like the unreconstructed girl, with her fresh unadulterated beauty.

 

Its no wonder so many girls have such a distorted view of their own lovliness when faced with this kind of thing everytime they open a magazine.

 

That complete twerp Victoria Beckham has a great deal to answer for.

 

She, to me epitomises everything that causes girls to go down the anorexia route.

[Lesley]

Buffie posted a link to this but I didn't have time to watch it and then I couldn't find it again.

 

Very thought provoking - I hope the message gets through to youngsters.

[Paola]

WOW Thank you Egluntine

[Tamsin]

I have heard about this campaign and think its a great idea - positive body image at long last - it has been a while coming!!

 

Cant see the film though I only get the sound!

 

same hear.

[Looney]

Excellent film, (I got the film but not the sound!)

 

It is about time that people were allowed to feel good for just being themselves and not feel the pressure to look like a picture-perfect model when the truth is that models don't look like the pictures we see either!

[xraylady]

Scroll down the page & watch the "listen to the voices of little girls" ad also. I first saw this at a very rowdy SuperBowl party here in the States, last January.

The ads broadcast during Superbowl are watched as much as the football game itself. When this came on, everyone stopped & watched in silence. Some of the guys made comments like "that was real good", but ALL the women completley got it - and the conversation shifted.

Commercial spots during SuperBowl are very expensive, but this is one way hearts & minds can be changed, and young girls lives can be saved. The extremes of eating disorder flow so easily from the comments of the girls in this ad - watch it, but have a hankie close by.

Kudos to Dove for taking this on. (Of course it doesnt hurt their sales either.)

[Lesley]

Scroll down the page & watch the "listen to the voices of little girls" ad also.

 

Sarah - I can't find anything Where is it? (probably just me )

[xraylady]

top tool bar thingy 'inside the campaign' click on that & then scroll down to bottom of page etc.

silly you for not reading my mind properly. . .

[Charlottechicken]

Both films are very good!

 

It is worrying that thoughts which not too many years ago would be exclusive to those of 12 years and above are now so prevalent in girls so young

[Egluntyne]

How astonishing!!!

 

This was in the Daily Mail today!!

(Only just read it ....9.47pm!!)

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=415141&in_page_id=1879