I’m so proud to be a woman today.
July 5, 2012 § 3 Comments
I saw this on facebook and had to share it here. This girl is incredible.
A 14-year-old, Julia Bluhm, has defeated Seventeen Magazine, the most widely distributed teen girls’ magazine in the U.S.–at least for now. Because of Julia’s online petition asking Seventeen to run unaltered photos to show its readers what real beauty and real girls look like, which was signed by 80,000 people, the editors of Seventeen caved. In Seventeen’s August issue, the magazine’s Editor in… Chief announced that the magazine vows not to use Photoshop to alter the face shape and body sizes of its teen models, and that it will feature a diversity of models with different body shapes, races, and hair textures — a coup for girls and women. Now it’s up to us to keep the fire to Seventeen’s feet. Though chances are that Julia will likely do that for us.
This is great. I love to see teenagers standing up against these things and glad to see that Seventeen actually took the petition to heart and changed their tune. (Let’s hope it stays that way.)
HERE. HERE.
gorgeousness abounds with this girl. GO JULIA. (i don’t mean me)