Blog #5

October 6, 2009 maxwae01

In GLAMOUR magazine, September 2009, there was an article called “What Everyone But You Sees About You Body.’ It is an amazing article that makes you think about the way you look at yourself. It talks about how we focus on our body flaws when we look in the mirror and I would have to admit that I do this. In the article Gyasi Atkins writes “Your body doesn’t deserve to be bashed,” and Madame Athena Chang writes “When you focus on the body parts you love, your flaws fade away!” It also explains how “fat days” are in our heads. A young women named Norell Giancana participates in an experiment were she takes a picture for herself in a bathing suit everyday and explains her feeling about the way so looks also. Ironically, over a thirty day time span in each picture her body looks the same, but it shows that on some of the days she felt fatter than others. Day 7 “The skinny jeans I wore on the flight home from my vacation were so tight they left seam imprints on my legs…I feel fat.” Day 20 “I actually felt lighter today. I think it’s because the pair of jeans I wore today fit. They looked great, so I felt great.” Yet her body looked exactly the same. The best part about this article is picture on page 194, a picture of a young beautiful women laughing. What makes this picture different then other pictures usually in magazines, is this women looks NORMAL. Please check out GLAMOUR online and search for the September article, it is worth your time to check out the picture.