Push a Button, Lose 10 Pounds
Today came across two things that just sort of combined to creep me out, or at least annoy.
One was this quote from some singer from some British band, Sugababes. Singer sez:
“This whole size zero thing really upsets me. I was at a hospital the other week and a lady came over and asked for an autograph for her 13-year-old daughter who was in a clinic with anorexia. It is so unrealistic. There are going to be loads of young girls now trying to get to a size zero like all these Hollywood stars.”
And it’s true. I don’t know about you, but I have this “site zero is good” mentality in the back of my head, like a virus. I didn’t put it there, but it’s there. Most of the time I ignore it. It pops out when I read about snarky would-be fashionistas saying, “I’d rather be fat … or even be a size 4.” (The horror.) Occasionally I imagine what I’d look like as a size 0 when I consume too much celebrity crap (much like my red koolaid problem as a child).
After all, sometimes Nicole Richie looks downright cute, even if she is on the verge of keeling over. Especially when she wears a lot of clothes. On the other hand, Kate Bosworth is a walking death’s head and a poor advertisement for anorexia . Same for Julia Roberts these days.
When they sell those celebrity clothes on eBay, the buyer market is more limited than it could be because they are simply. So. Damn. Tiny.
Anyway. So I’m nodding in agreement with this singer I haven’t heard of, and moving on. I file it in my head with Janice Dickinson’s pronouncement that Tyra Banks looks nothing like her Photoshopped photos (unless you add back 35 pounds) and some general buzz that both Oprah and Britney got a Photoshop crash diet for their last few covers.
And then I hit another blog and learn that even we civilians can skinnify ourselves in photos. You don’t even need Photoshop. It comes built-in with certain HP digital cameras.
HP rationalizes this right off the bat by pointing out that the camera adds 10 pounds. So they’re just compensating. Filing off that extra weight we never had. Right?
I like to spend time in virtual worlds … online SIMMS. In those places, everyone is a perfect 10. We all look just like Barbies, complete with Jimmy Choos, Hilary Duff pouts and Jessica Simpson hair extensions. And if the clothes had sizes instead of being perfectly and mathematically tailored to our virtual bodies, we’d all be size 2s. (Too bad there isn’t a setting for wit.)
Hmmmm … most wedding photogs these days use digital cameras. I wonder how many photographers are begged to turn on the Slimmer-ama feature … at least for the bride? (Brides that subconsciously pick out bag lady dresses for their attendants would probably insist on the distinction.) This wedding filmed in slim-o-scope.
What’s your opinion on push-button digital slimming?
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