I have little to no boobs, I started developing breasts at the age of eleven and then stopped at roughly eleven and a half, If you were to describe them you would say they were basically slightly raised nipples. It bothers me and given the chance I have always said that I would have a boob job. I don’t really want a boob job, that’s not true, I don’t want to want one, ideally I wish I had the self confidence to be happy with the way I look realise that nobody is perfect and it’s about what’s on the inside that matters. That can be a little hard when you realise that this kind of thing has been going on,
How is anybody supposed to have a normal view of their own body when even the most beautiful of people aren’t deemed good enough. The really frustrating thing about this is I remember vividly this poster coming out. It can be a lonely experience having small boobs, none of my friends have small boobs and the ones that would consider their boobs small are at least a cup size bigger than me. That’s why I had always liked Keira Knightely I’d seen her in Bend It Like Beckham and thought at the time that she had small boobs and this genuinely made me feel better, she was tall and confident and it didn’t seem to slow her down or make her less popular and that was really comforting. I was at the cinema when I saw the poster for King Arthur and I looked at it and thought oh she’s perfect, she doesn’t get how I feel at all, they’re not as small as I remember. That stuck with me for a long time and I spent most of my early teenage years feeling like I was the only person on the planet to have boobs as small as mine. I didn’t see the film, which I think is a shame because if I did I probably would have realised that it was just the picture and in actuality she is the person I remember, but I didn’t so all I had was the poster, big and bold in front of my face.
Look at Kate Hudson for Fools Gold, at least I was older when this came out and was well aware of photoshop so I found this one more funny than emotionally isolating. I just think it is so ridiculous for someone who looks so amazing on the beach anyway is still not good enough for whoever it is that decides what beauty should be. She looks much better on the right than the weird spray painted gold thing on the left, but hey I guess the clue is in the title. Kate Hudson now has reportedly had a boob job, I don’t think she has said anything officially but by the looks of this picture it seems pretty clear,
I believe it is 100% a person’s right to choose whether to have any form of surgery or not, nobody can judge you and in the end it is nobody’s business. However on personal level for me it does give me justification in wanting my boob job, if Kate Hudson can’t hack it, someone who is so pretty and so privileged feels the need for surgery then how am I, someone who is just the sponge soaking up all these deceitful images ever supposed to be happy within myself.
Photoshopping is wrong and harmful to the people who see it, I hate the thought of another 14 year old girl seeing a poster, like I did with King Arthur, looking at themselves and feeling like they don’t compare, when even the people in the photo’s don’t compare. We don’t need photoshop the people who are being digitally enhanced are already considered to be the prettiest people anway that’s the only reason they’re on the poster or in the magazine, celebrities already have the upper hand, they spend thousands on their hair, clothes, diet, fitness, make up, and they have people who their only job is to make them look the best they could possibly be, how is that still not good enough?
This message is for anyone who has seen an image of someone and has felt worse because of it. All images are not real, their legs aren’t that toned, their stomach isn’t that flat, their hair isn’t that shiny, their skin isn’t that flawless, and their boobs aren’t that big. It’s all fake and it’s all false, Katy Perry looks just like the rest of us in the morning.
