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Originally Posted by katherine
People put in "beautiful" actors for films and shows these days even if their acting is horrendous (not saying angelina's is, she's one of the few!) but because they're society's definition of gorgeous, they'll sell the movie. Jessica Alba?  Hot body! Beautiful! Ka-ching in the box office. It's no different in the modeling realm - years ago the norm changed, beauty = thinness, skinny = beautiful. Agencies want their girls to be thinner because not only is it beautiful, the clothes hang better, make them more sellable, bringing more money to the agencies and designers. It's an industry of extreme *beauty, average is just not accepted.
*protruding collarbone, clavicles that cut glass, legs two miles apart from each other. |
This is interesting. Because since it is that way, it follows that everyone who really wants to and has the discipline - can be beautiful. That's not how it seems to have been in the 80s and before that - then, people were simply doomed by their bone structure to be either beautiful, average or ugly.
I'm wondering if - ironically - the thinness/body focus is really a form of "beauty on the inside" - since most people over 20 or so have to strive to be that skinny/fit, it becomes a matter of mind over matter, the discipline and desire determines who is beautiful.