Much has been made of how the fashion industry manipulates images of beautiful women. Typically, Photoshop is deployed to shave inches off hips and thighs, but a former Cosmo editor has spilled the beans on an altogether different—yet common—form of deception from which even the likes of Cameron Diaz wasn't immune.
According to an article in the Huffington Post, Leah Hardy recently revealed before and afters of Diaz, in which the actress was more or less "filled out" and made to look less skinny.
Similar stories have come out about editors who've retouched models and stars who looked rakish and unwell.
"I spent the first ten years of my career making girls look thinner—and the last ten making them look larger," admitted Vogue's creative director, Robin Derrick.
And so the mythology of the perfect woman continues as skeletal models and celebrities struggle to stay thin (but not too thin) for the lens.
No wonder Jen Lawrence opted to look chubby on screen and "normal" in everyday life—whatever normal is, but we take her point anyway.
Will we ever see a natural woman again on the cover of a magazine, or is the illusion necessary to give us something to aspire to?
Photo: Angel Kelly website
How are you faring, polar friends? That wicked cold front sweeping across a good section of North America right now has people doing all manner of crazy things, like throwing boiling water around and sticking their tongues to poles to see what will happen.
And did you know it's colder here right now than on Mars?
An article in Today claims Chicago, dubbed “Chi-Beria,” is seeing its all-time lowest of the low high temperatures at -11. Meanwhile, Lake Michigan is steaming like a cuppa.
If you're cabin feverish and cooped up inside trying to entertain bored kids, you may want to dazzle them by taking a leaf out of this mom's book.
According to an article in Distractify, Washington mom Angela Kelly thought it would be fun to blow some bubbles with her seven-year-old son. The results are at once beautiful and kind of magical—the crystalline spheres look more like ornaments you'd hang from a Christmas tree than bubbles.
As temperatures dwindle to record lows—and the list of grown ups being scalded by the water-in-the-air trick grows—please exercise caution when playing outdoors. And if you really must play with boiling water, watch the clip below in which a Canuck gets it right.
Please cover your heads and double up your mittens. Repeat after me: frostbite isn't cool or funny.
Would you allow your child to sit on the lap of Satan—or, rather, a statue of Satan? Of course not, but for religious expression to exist, shouldn't Satanists also have the right to erect statues in honour of their own deities?
According to an article in the Huffington Post, these are the questions currently facing Oklahoma, where the New York-based Satanic Temple has applied for permission to erect a statue in Capitol. This, in a city that already allowed a Ten Commandments monument in 2012.
At seven feet tall, the proposed statue shows Satan as the goat-like figure Baphomet sitting in a "pentagram-adorned throne with smiling children next to him."
Temple spokesperson, Lucien Greaves, claims the chair is actually functional, as "people of all ages may sit on the lap of Satan for inspiration and contemplation."
After all, what's good for Christianity is equally good for Satanism and any other religion. Right?
A valid yet highly controversial point, in a state that falls within America's conservative Bible Belt. Yet the Temple is dead serious in its plan, and has already raised half of the $20,000 construction cost.
What do you think of the proposed statue?
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