Plus-Size Models Ask Photographer To Make Them Skinny, Reveal How Much Photoshop Can Change Your Body
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Nowadays it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s not. Most of the images that we see in social media or magazines have been more or less altered using photo editing software and that has been putting unrealistic beauty standards in our heads and slowly distorting our understanding of reality itself. But some people refuse to put up with this and want to open people’s eyes to the truth.
Two beautiful plus-size models, Diana Sirokai and Callie Thorpe teamed up with professional photographer Karizza to show how the media takes photo manipulation to a different level. Diana and Callie had their picture taken and Karizza used photoshop to make extreme body image edits.
“I have to say we look amazing both ways”, Diana wrote on her Instagram post. “The purpose of this was to show you all how magazines and the media take editing to a different level. Models and celebrities do not even look like themselves in those photoshopped images. We live in such a fake world it’s time to bring real back. Own who you are and slay!”
Take a look at the before and after images of the beautiful women below and let us know what you think.
More info: Diana’s Instagram | Callie’s Instagram
These two beautiful ladies, Callie on the left and Diana on the right, decided to show how magazines and the media takes editing to a different level
They asked a professional photographer to use photoshop on their bodies to show how much can be changed using computer software
In the same post, they showed the original image encouraging people to “Own who you are and slay “
This was not the first time these ladies spread the body positivity message
Last month Diana shared an image of her body next to Kim Kardashian with an empowering note – “We are both women with different bodies”
The main message of these girls is that everyone should love themselves and that’s something that everyone can get behind
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Sure, you should love yourselfe, but just as supeskinny should'nt be encouraged because it's unhealthy, overweight shouldn't be encouraged either, for the same reason.
But I guess the Point here was to show how magazines use editing and that I like.
Zero magazines go even remotely this far with editing. Just because it's technically possible (and done poorly in these examples, I might ad) doesn't mean this is what magazines do. This is a ridiculous article that reeks of virtue signalling. Yeah, love yourself at any size, but certainly don't think it's a good idea to stay that way. Please get healthy. The message should be "Love yourself enough to make positive, healthy change"
This is exactly what magazines do! Cindy Crawford used to get angry because even as thin as she is, Magazines would trim and edit her images, making her legs look thinner and removing the slightest blemishes. SHE was angry because it promoted unhealthy body images.
Full Name- This is exactly what magazines do..... Where have you been the last two decades?
According to measurement that endocrinologists use its not overweighted, but obese. They look overweighted on edited photo.
Also, it's not your job to make sure everybody in the world is what you consider healthy. If you have someone close in your life and you are genuinely concerned, then have that conversation. But if you see somebody walking down the street who is thinner or fatter than you think is healthy? Keep walking, sister, nobody asked for your advice.
no one is going to go around forcing people to be healthy if they don't want to be healthy, they mean just as super skinny shouldn't be encouraged to children to look up to, neither should obesity
And nobody asked for you to comment to his/her comment either.But you know why you both did?Because it's the internet and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, hence the comment section.
When I'm subsidizing their diabetes and heart disease, it bloody well IS my business.
Yeah Justi, no one wants to wear shoes because Michael Jordan does...or eat where celebrities eat.... I think you're underestimating the power of media and advertising.
That comment reveals a lot. ::sips tea:: but that's none of my concern.
i agree! i'm so sick of good uncles and aunts advising everyone how to look. think what you want, but let others live their life! by the way, do you really think people will suddenly want to be obese because some models are? are you crazy?! you must be.
Most of people really don’t understand that concept, and until they do things won’t change.
And they are just sending a message saying don't worry about your looks, just love yourself the way you are
agreed
How about everybody gets to do what they want with their bodies because they're *theirs*? Quit judging others by your standards. Pay attention to your s**t and leave other people alone, it's none of your business what they do!
I agree. It's none of anyone else's business .. but please, let's not pretend that being 100 pounds overweight is "beautiful" or "sexy."
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Um... I understand what you are trying to say, but those ladies aren't fat. They seem average. Not super skinny, not super fat.
I'm no doctor but I'm pretty damn sure these ladies fit into the clinically obese category. Nor am I American, but when I visited last month I was shocked by the number of massively overweight people. So sad to say, but "average" in the USA does not mean healthy, too many people are obese and that is the new normal.
It's sad if that's considered average.
They aren't fat?? They are very obese! The edited versions of them are fat. No versions of them are a normal, healthy weight.
That weight does not come from eating healthy. That leads.to illnesses. Being overweight is a predesposition for illness. People who claim they like themselves like this are trying to make others believe they are happy. I wont be happy carrying that weight around
overweight could be fine, obese is not. I am overweight, more because of poly cystic ovarium syndrome that I had since kid. When I try to eat better, work out regularly, being more positive minded, I actually aimed at being healthy, not losing weight. This women are campaigning on how to respect and love yourself, despite what size of the curves might be; they're not endorsing people to be overweight.
Alira, they are “endorsing people to be overweight” a little, by glorifying their weight on both of their instagram accts. Me being overweight myself, I know... even though I’ve lost 70+ lbs (partly do to my Mother passing) in the last year and a half. Started eating much healthier and feel better for it. It’s not good to be at an unhealthy weight/height ratio. The BMI Table doesn’t lie. If one says their are ok with weight their just lying to themselves. (SCOTT WALSH you are correct)
Every one of those pictures are of obese women
Not all plus size people are un-healthy. Sometimes it's just genetics. They are big people, and no amount of dangerous dieting will change that! Everyone is built differently, for which I am very thankful, I don't want a world of mini-me's!!!
Dangerous dieting...lol. yes, genetics play a huge role, but lifestyle can affect genetics in both positive and negative ways.
Ok portion control, following nutritional guidelines, and intensie regular exercise is literally the opposite of dangerous and unhealthy.
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oh shurrup and get some cake
Talking to me? I will have some cake because I worked for it almost 3 hours at the gym I deserve a slice of some damn cake. I don't reward mediocrity.
They look happy, but maybe they would be more healthy inside with losing weight.
everybody can look happy enough if a picture. Suicide people will have terrific days before killing themselves. Ultra skinny people isn't happy either, no matter how bid they smile for the pictures. As for the healthy issue, obese young people will be diabetic adults with blood pressure issues. If you're that young and you're over 200 pounds, it's not healthy and you wont be laughing when you need dialysis, kidney or heart transplant, just like a skinny girl will loose her periods, would be cronical anemic and develop a massive failure pretty much on every organ: just like obese people (not a little fat people, not a little round people, not a normal woman weighting 150 pounds in her forties)
Actually, being overweight is not a guarantee of diabetes. Heredity plays a much larger roll. If you have type 2 diabetes in your family, yes, being overweight is much more likely to cause you to get it, but even thin people can get it if it runs in the family. I'm adopted. I have type 2 diabetes. Apparently, I had it since I was 30 and I wasn't overweight. However, I was just told, "Your blood sugar runs a little high, but you're not diabetic." Suddenly, I'm 45 and I'm diabetic I asked my doctor if my blood sugar counts went up. She said, "No. What happened is we lowered the standards for what is considered diabetic." I learned about my biological family back ground and sure enough, diabetes, both types 1 & 2 run rampant. Meanwhile, you have my adopted mother and my cousin, who were (in the case of my mother, who is gone) and are much heavier than I am, but they don't have diabetes.
They choose to be overweight and too lazy to work out, so they have to show people that they are happy!
Touché
And maybe it's none of your business. I have a brother who put on 20lbs because the doctor said he was "Too underweight." He hated it He felt bloated and wrong. He took the weight off and felt better. Meanwhile, under the advice of a doctor, I I dieted myself down to a size 7 and I felt miserable too. I don't feel right unless I"m about a size 10-14. More and I feel fat. Less and I feel wrong. My energy wanes and I find all I want to do is sleep and dream about food. People are different shapes and different sizes. I know folks who weigh more than I do, who can outrun me, out walk me, etc. I know folks who are skinnier than me, who I can run circles around on my worst day.
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and how do you know they are not healthy? you just jump to conclusions just because they are plus size.
Because being overweight is not healthy and that's a fact. Same as being underweight.
it's a fact that a human body can't be that size and stay healthy
The models may be healthy to a certain extent but the bones can only support so much weight. And the organs can only process so much efficiently.
They're both build like one of my great-grandmothers. The one whose legs, hips, and feet were so broken by hauling around all that weight for years that she ended up in a wheelchair (in constant agony), and then dead two years later.
Sure, you should love yourselfe, but just as supeskinny should'nt be encouraged because it's unhealthy, overweight shouldn't be encouraged either, for the same reason.
But I guess the Point here was to show how magazines use editing and that I like.
Zero magazines go even remotely this far with editing. Just because it's technically possible (and done poorly in these examples, I might ad) doesn't mean this is what magazines do. This is a ridiculous article that reeks of virtue signalling. Yeah, love yourself at any size, but certainly don't think it's a good idea to stay that way. Please get healthy. The message should be "Love yourself enough to make positive, healthy change"
This is exactly what magazines do! Cindy Crawford used to get angry because even as thin as she is, Magazines would trim and edit her images, making her legs look thinner and removing the slightest blemishes. SHE was angry because it promoted unhealthy body images.
Full Name- This is exactly what magazines do..... Where have you been the last two decades?
According to measurement that endocrinologists use its not overweighted, but obese. They look overweighted on edited photo.
Also, it's not your job to make sure everybody in the world is what you consider healthy. If you have someone close in your life and you are genuinely concerned, then have that conversation. But if you see somebody walking down the street who is thinner or fatter than you think is healthy? Keep walking, sister, nobody asked for your advice.
no one is going to go around forcing people to be healthy if they don't want to be healthy, they mean just as super skinny shouldn't be encouraged to children to look up to, neither should obesity
And nobody asked for you to comment to his/her comment either.But you know why you both did?Because it's the internet and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, hence the comment section.
When I'm subsidizing their diabetes and heart disease, it bloody well IS my business.
Yeah Justi, no one wants to wear shoes because Michael Jordan does...or eat where celebrities eat.... I think you're underestimating the power of media and advertising.
That comment reveals a lot. ::sips tea:: but that's none of my concern.
i agree! i'm so sick of good uncles and aunts advising everyone how to look. think what you want, but let others live their life! by the way, do you really think people will suddenly want to be obese because some models are? are you crazy?! you must be.
Most of people really don’t understand that concept, and until they do things won’t change.
And they are just sending a message saying don't worry about your looks, just love yourself the way you are
agreed
How about everybody gets to do what they want with their bodies because they're *theirs*? Quit judging others by your standards. Pay attention to your s**t and leave other people alone, it's none of your business what they do!
I agree. It's none of anyone else's business .. but please, let's not pretend that being 100 pounds overweight is "beautiful" or "sexy."
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Um... I understand what you are trying to say, but those ladies aren't fat. They seem average. Not super skinny, not super fat.
I'm no doctor but I'm pretty damn sure these ladies fit into the clinically obese category. Nor am I American, but when I visited last month I was shocked by the number of massively overweight people. So sad to say, but "average" in the USA does not mean healthy, too many people are obese and that is the new normal.
It's sad if that's considered average.
They aren't fat?? They are very obese! The edited versions of them are fat. No versions of them are a normal, healthy weight.
That weight does not come from eating healthy. That leads.to illnesses. Being overweight is a predesposition for illness. People who claim they like themselves like this are trying to make others believe they are happy. I wont be happy carrying that weight around
overweight could be fine, obese is not. I am overweight, more because of poly cystic ovarium syndrome that I had since kid. When I try to eat better, work out regularly, being more positive minded, I actually aimed at being healthy, not losing weight. This women are campaigning on how to respect and love yourself, despite what size of the curves might be; they're not endorsing people to be overweight.
Alira, they are “endorsing people to be overweight” a little, by glorifying their weight on both of their instagram accts. Me being overweight myself, I know... even though I’ve lost 70+ lbs (partly do to my Mother passing) in the last year and a half. Started eating much healthier and feel better for it. It’s not good to be at an unhealthy weight/height ratio. The BMI Table doesn’t lie. If one says their are ok with weight their just lying to themselves. (SCOTT WALSH you are correct)
Every one of those pictures are of obese women
Not all plus size people are un-healthy. Sometimes it's just genetics. They are big people, and no amount of dangerous dieting will change that! Everyone is built differently, for which I am very thankful, I don't want a world of mini-me's!!!
Dangerous dieting...lol. yes, genetics play a huge role, but lifestyle can affect genetics in both positive and negative ways.
Ok portion control, following nutritional guidelines, and intensie regular exercise is literally the opposite of dangerous and unhealthy.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
oh shurrup and get some cake
Talking to me? I will have some cake because I worked for it almost 3 hours at the gym I deserve a slice of some damn cake. I don't reward mediocrity.
They look happy, but maybe they would be more healthy inside with losing weight.
everybody can look happy enough if a picture. Suicide people will have terrific days before killing themselves. Ultra skinny people isn't happy either, no matter how bid they smile for the pictures. As for the healthy issue, obese young people will be diabetic adults with blood pressure issues. If you're that young and you're over 200 pounds, it's not healthy and you wont be laughing when you need dialysis, kidney or heart transplant, just like a skinny girl will loose her periods, would be cronical anemic and develop a massive failure pretty much on every organ: just like obese people (not a little fat people, not a little round people, not a normal woman weighting 150 pounds in her forties)
Actually, being overweight is not a guarantee of diabetes. Heredity plays a much larger roll. If you have type 2 diabetes in your family, yes, being overweight is much more likely to cause you to get it, but even thin people can get it if it runs in the family. I'm adopted. I have type 2 diabetes. Apparently, I had it since I was 30 and I wasn't overweight. However, I was just told, "Your blood sugar runs a little high, but you're not diabetic." Suddenly, I'm 45 and I'm diabetic I asked my doctor if my blood sugar counts went up. She said, "No. What happened is we lowered the standards for what is considered diabetic." I learned about my biological family back ground and sure enough, diabetes, both types 1 & 2 run rampant. Meanwhile, you have my adopted mother and my cousin, who were (in the case of my mother, who is gone) and are much heavier than I am, but they don't have diabetes.
They choose to be overweight and too lazy to work out, so they have to show people that they are happy!
Touché
And maybe it's none of your business. I have a brother who put on 20lbs because the doctor said he was "Too underweight." He hated it He felt bloated and wrong. He took the weight off and felt better. Meanwhile, under the advice of a doctor, I I dieted myself down to a size 7 and I felt miserable too. I don't feel right unless I"m about a size 10-14. More and I feel fat. Less and I feel wrong. My energy wanes and I find all I want to do is sleep and dream about food. People are different shapes and different sizes. I know folks who weigh more than I do, who can outrun me, out walk me, etc. I know folks who are skinnier than me, who I can run circles around on my worst day.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
and how do you know they are not healthy? you just jump to conclusions just because they are plus size.
Because being overweight is not healthy and that's a fact. Same as being underweight.
it's a fact that a human body can't be that size and stay healthy
The models may be healthy to a certain extent but the bones can only support so much weight. And the organs can only process so much efficiently.
They're both build like one of my great-grandmothers. The one whose legs, hips, and feet were so broken by hauling around all that weight for years that she ended up in a wheelchair (in constant agony), and then dead two years later.