Britney Spears Is Having Her Candies & Eating Them Too
HAVING IT BOTH WAYS
Britney Spears Is Having Her Candies & Eating Them Too
IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE CALLED A BRILLIANTLY EXECUTED counterintuitive ad campaign, everybody's favorite reformed Pop Tart has released pics depicting her "before" and "after" the magic of Photoshop.
The snaps of Britney Spears wearing a pink polka-dotted bathing suit were taken during a shoot for Candies and have already flooded the web. They first showed up on the U.K.'s Daily Mail, which claims Brit "allowed" the pre-airbrushed images to be used "ALONGSIDE" (their capitalization) the altered ones so people could see the difference.
And therein lies its brilliance: it allows Brit and Candies to have its cake -- Brit showing flesh in a pink-heavy campaign to appeal to girlies -- all the while eating it too -- being heralded as "courageous" for showing cottage cheesy thighs, buxom rump and bruised legs.
Here's what it also does: Illustrate to anyone with eyes the convenience of Photoshop for publishers. Alas, the "retouched" perfected images deliver unreal expectations about female bodies to both men and women, and in particular about young girls still finding their balance in the world. And therein lies the real danger.
We love, love Britney, who was offered up to the gods of commerce at a very tender age, struggled, fell and has fought her way back .
Would we love her just as much without the perfectly corrected shape, the more demure derriere, the longer, thinner legs? I can’t be sure.
