small is beautiful
I don’t know how much Keira Knightley had to do with the decision not to digitally enhance her bust for the posters of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (studio publicists were less restrained when King Arthur premiered in the States, awarding her a box office-boosting C-cup). But I like to think she had a hand in it.
Those outside the women’s magazine industry may not realise that models and celebrities alike are routinely Photoshopped to perfection when the photographer and stylist have packed up and gone home. In her documentary about reaching size 0, WAG Louise Redknapp sheepishly
admitted to having rather enjoyed the longer, slimmer legs art directors bestowed on her for the pages of their magazines. But the practice makes the images of femininity presented to women even less realistic than many people think. The vast majority of the bodies we’re exposed to in the media are the product of surgery, digital or actual, which is why papped shots of celebrities often reveal a rather different reality.
SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT
So all power to Keira and her elegant bee stings for reminding us that real women, even famously beautiful ones, have flaws.
SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT
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