Positive Body Image - Suprising stats and facts May 1, 2008
Did you know…
If show mannequins were real women, they’d be too thin to menstruate.
There are 3 billion women who don’t look like supermodels and only eight who do.
Marilyn Monroe wore a size 14.
If Barbie was a real woman, she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.
The average American woman weighs 144 lbs. and wears between a size 12 and 14.
One out of every four college women has an eating disorder.
The models in magazines are AIRBRUSHED-they’re not perfect!!
A psychological study in 1995 found that three minutes spent looking at models in a fashion magazine caused 70% of women to feel depressed, guilty, and shameful.
Models twenty years ago weighed 8% less than the average woman, today they weight 23% less.
“Don’t weight your self-esteem…it’s what inside that counts”
Dear The Jet Set Zen
How are you,
I would like to point your attention to the Mozaïk~Curves project.
The subject of roundness and of slenderness could not be more actual. Nowadays, several women have difficulty appreciating their own body image. However, The Human Mozaïk chose to sing the praises of curves and of round bodies by inviting women from across Canada aged from 18 to 50 years old to lend their forms to semi-nude photography and to unique artistic creations inspired by their curves. Each model’s curves and roundures were interpreted by different artists according to their respective styles, techniques and medium.
The Mozaïk~Curves project is also a collection of testimonies, poems and affirmations. The texts are written by the models, courageous women who become natural, artistic, proud, beautiful and intelligent. This is an original, colourful and inspiring project shedding a positive look on women’s curves and roundness!
http://www.artmozaik.com/Curves.html
Please tell us what you think,
Great work on your Web site!
Regards
Human Mozaïk
http://www.artmozaik.com/
mozaik@artmozaik.com