"Here's what lots of girls don't know: those pretty women that we see in magazines are fake," Bluhm said on Change.org. "I’m in a ballet class with a bunch of high-school girls. On a daily basis I hear comments like: 'It’s a fat day,' and 'I ate well today, but I still feel fat.' To girls today, the word 'pretty' means skinny and blemish-free. Why is that, when so few girls actually fit into such a narrow category? It’s because the media tells us that 'pretty' girls are impossibly thin with perfect skin."
Because of Julia's activism, Seventeen Magazine has agreed to stop using digital tools to alter the images of their models.
I agree. Let's stop lying to our children about who they are and who they should be.
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