Kinda strange to admit but I was actually inspired by a tv commercial I just saw. It was a simple Olive Garden ad but the difference was the talent. It was an average young man and his grandfather eating out. Now I don’t mean “average” as a bad thing, just not uber hot vixen with male model dude.
I have a real issue with the media pumping out images to the young (and old for that matter) generations that you must be a certain way to be beautiful or accepted.
I have worked many years in many different realms of the entertainment industry and have seen what all goes into the works of creating a magazine cover or tv commercial. It is stunning and astonishing the amounts of crap and gunk they pile on these men and women to make them fit a certain standard.
Most of the time if not all of the time the images are doctored and completely messed with. NOTHING is as it seems!
It is just not fair to do this to our children. I don’t know how to change it but I am willing. Let’s find ways to support the “real” ads and media and boycott the “fake, polished” crap.
Models and actors are starving and killing themselves in order to fit the mold. Their lives fall apart around them because of the media obsession. Don’t give into it. Don’t fall for it. Be beautiful and wonderful for who God made you out to be. Break the mold, go against the grain. Be real. It is so attractive to meet someone who knows who they are and love it.
