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This appears to be a real woman’s belly, with all it’s glorious bends and curves. Now, at first glance, this seems like wonderful progress as far as body acceptance. But the picture was used to accompany a post about ovarian cancer, which makes me wonder if the implied message is, it’s only OK to let yourself go like this when battling a potentially life-threatening illness.
Thoughts?
40 days ago
I have a full time job, elderly parents, one of whom is in a nursing home and a boyfriend who lost his job. Between going to work and trying to take care of everyone, going to the gym has fallen of the radar. If my stomach looked this good, I would be throwing a party! Magazines need to start celebrating what is right with real women, not subjecting them to images of 15 year old girls who weigh 95 pounds. Show me someone who has lived life some – and eaten along the way!
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28 days ago
OR we could start ignoring magazines and stop looking to them for validation.
After all, the exist primarily to create a need and fill it with consumption. Because we live in a patriarchy where women are brought up internalizing these types of harmful messages of self-hatred, they will capitalize on that to make a profit. It’s really that simple.
41 days ago
You ladies tend to judge yourselves and each other way too harshly. You pay too much attention to the junk you see in the media. The woman in this photo looks great.
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41 days ago
This same image was used in the Vogue Shape Issue a few years back. It accompanied a piece in which a mother bemoaned her post baby stomach and deliberated over whether to consider plastic surgery, as part of a round up of women’s most hated body parts. Nice progress to making it accompany a life-threatening illness, Vogue!
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41 days ago
This woman has a nice body, why did the photographer decide to have her lean over to create a wierd dolphin smile with her stomach LOL. It’s a pic to make people talk kind of marketing.
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41 days ago
Oh my God, it is a dolphin smile! And it’s adorable. Now that I realize that, I hope she goes through her entire life in exactly that position.
42 days ago
I think itʻs wrong of them to use a picture of a real woman to accompany a life-threatening disease. However, if you think about it, ovarian cancer is a disease that only real women get, so this picture could be saying something like, “Only real women get this disease like the woman in this picture” or something. I donʻt know. Kudos to Vogue, though, on actually using a photo of a real woman and a not a stick figure.
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42 days ago
Well, I guess it’s a step in the right direction. First we let the seriously ill feel comfortable with themselves, then the ill-but-not-deadly-ill, and then people with colds, and THEN finally the common person. Sheesh, Jessica, have you no patience for progress?
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41 days ago
I would like to converse with you, i live in the US in the state of West Virginia.
How do you feel?