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ngdawg · 10-16-2006, 11:51 AM

My aunt owns a very large modelling agency in Manhattan and has for over 30 years.
At the age of 18, she declared she wanted me to model. I thought she was nuts. I had bad skin, crooked teeth....then she showed me a poster of this gorgeous blonde in Jordache jeans, topless and told me it was this mousy little thing with buck teeth sitting off to the side.
The Dove film is slightly exagerated, but I emphasize 'slightly'. In order to start the career, I would have had to go to Paris for at least six months for runway and photo shoots. Clients need models with at least good 'bones; they don't want to pay for a lot of touching up and you can't look thin or graceful on a runway with Photoshopping. There has to be some 'projection'.
If you watch 'America's Next Top Model', you'll see that what you might say is beautiful doesn't come off as such and vice versa. Some of those natural beauties look like hell when made up for the photoshoots.( And if you think I really look as good as that avatar, I got this swamp land in Florida......)
We most definitely have a warped sense of what's beautiful; it's like watching a magic show and swearing it's all real. Plastic surgery (which I will probably have at some point, myself), non-celebrity celebrities, models who do not much more than look good, yet have their own shows, porn....all cast this pall of making us think we're not up to snuff. Then when we're told we're 'beautiful', we can't believe it. I know that at times, I can be and I don't mean with Photoshopping, etc. Real life, too, needs projection. And if we just go around thinking we're not up to snuff because of these false ideals, then the projection becomes negative and that's not beautiful or helpful.

10-16-2006, 11:51 AM	#5 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	My aunt owns a very large modelling agency in Manhattan and has for over 30 years. At the age of 18, she declared she wanted me to model. I thought she was nuts. I had bad skin, crooked teeth....then she showed me a poster of this gorgeous blonde in Jordache jeans, topless and told me it was this mousy little thing with buck teeth sitting off to the side. The Dove film is slightly exagerated, but I emphasize 'slightly'. In order to start the career, I would have had to go to Paris for at least six months for runway and photo shoots. Clients need models with at least good 'bones; they don't want to pay for a lot of touching up and you can't look thin or graceful on a runway with Photoshopping. There has to be some 'projection'. If you watch 'America's Next Top Model', you'll see that what you might say is beautiful doesn't come off as such and vice versa. Some of those natural beauties look like hell when made up for the photoshoots.( And if you think I really look as good as that avatar, I got this swamp land in Florida......) We most definitely have a warped sense of what's beautiful; it's like watching a magic show and swearing it's all real. Plastic surgery (which I will probably have at some point, myself), non-celebrity celebrities, models who do not much more than look good, yet have their own shows, porn....all cast this pall of making us think we're not up to snuff. Then when we're told we're 'beautiful', we can't believe it. I know that at times, I can be and I don't mean with Photoshopping, etc. Real life, too, needs projection. And if we just go around thinking we're not up to snuff because of these false ideals, then the projection becomes negative and that's not beautiful or helpful. __________________ Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.