I came across this video from Dove today on the Internet.  It’s a part of their Real Beauty Campaign.  After receiving several comments on it from friends, and knowing how my pre-teen daughter views her thin and tall frame (she thinks she’s fat), I wanted to post the video here to share with other young, impressionable girls, and their parents that what you see in the magazines and screens is NOT real.  There is a lot of work that goes into making a woman look perfect in the magazines, on television, and in movies.  You’d be amazed at what photo and video editing software can do to a person’s image.  You can change coloring, hide things, make a person taller, increase bust size, make them appear thinner than they are and more.  Check out this video and see how they elongate the model’s neck, change the contours of her eyebrows, enlarge her eyes…

It’s really not a fair comparison to make of yourself with people in magazines or on the screen.  They are regular people too when they wake up in the morning.  It takes a lot of editing to get what you see in print or on the screen.  Love your body, love yourself.