Eighth Grader Gets Seventeen To Stop Photoshopping The Girls In Its Magazine

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dharmasimulation:

picture of seventeen's body peace treatyEighth grader Julia Bluhm was tired of hearing her friends in ballet class complain about being fat, and knew that they were basing their self-conscious opinions on altered magazine images of themselves. So she started a petition asking Seventeen magazine to stop photoshopping the women in their pages. Julia asked for one unaltered image of a “regular girl” in every issue.

“For the sake of all the struggling girls all over America, who read Seventeen and think these fake images are what they should be, I’m stepping up,” Julia wrote. “I know how hurtful these photoshopped images can be. I’m a teenage girl, and I don’t like what I see. None of us do.”

Today, with the petition at more than 81,000 signatures, Seventeen responded — and went even further than what Julia had requested. The magazine committed to Julia and organizers at SPARK a Movement to represent a range of women of all shapes and sizes in its magazine — every month, every model — without any photoshopping of their bodies (they will still be using photoshop to take wrinkles out of clothes and hide flyaway hairs).

This makes me want to go out and buy a copy, just to see what it looks like.  And bring it to the program, so the girls there can see it, too.

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    This young girl gmh.
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    Well done Julia Bluhm! Also, thank you to whoever taught this young lady about positive self-image and helping her find...
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    YOU GO GIRL.
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