How Disney Princesses Would Look If They Had Realistic Waistlines
Disney movies are magical and formative tales for youngsters, but there’s no doubt that they can sometimes promote outdated or even unhealthy body images, especially for women. Emmy Award-winning illustrator Loryn Brantz decided that she’d challenge the unhealthy body types promoted by Disney’s princesses by giving them waistlines that were a bit more true-to-life.
“As children we may not realize these images in the media affect us, but they definitely do give us some unrealistic expectations about body image,” Brantz told the Huffington Post.” Media outlets with the opportunity to change the way women are viewed and view themselves should start taking responsibility. It only took a couple of nudges of a line to make those Disney princesses’ tiny waists less extreme, and they still looked beautiful and magical.”
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It is not something to dream about, being as thin as you 'can'. Being happy and healthy, that we should wish for!
They aren't shapeless, they are more naturally shaped. It is not biologically possible to have your waist be smaller than your head. And very few if any of us have curves that are drastically larger than the rest of our bodies.
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the only good looking realistik waistline is Jasmine and Pocahontas....the others are...well,you just exaggerate them
A realistic image of a mermaid? Really? Belle looks normal in the original. That is what Corsets look like.
Normal to have a waist thinner than your head?! Corset or not ...
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They look good either way. With Elsa, Belle and Aurora though, in the times they lived, they wore corsets so that waist wasn't that uncommon
okay, then what about their hairs, or other body portion? these are tales, the plot either based upon unreality, so, just leave them alone
They have already tackled at least one of the other things..https://www.boredpanda.com/disney-princesses-realistic-hair-loryn-brantz/
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I personally like them. If all disney princesses were like this, it would show young girls that you don't have to be super skinny to be beautiful or to make a difference.
Realistic waist Realistic bodies Better just use a camera. But the story isn't realistic as well. Let's boycot culture in general.
See it's funny cause in my head they aren't twig thin. I always thought of them as healthy! :)
Some of you are missing the point. Sure it's a fantasy, but the messages it's send it's viewers are very real.
I've always believed that Disney videos contributed to my anorexia - I've always felt that my waist wasn't narrow enough.
If the Jasmine one was a real woman her measurements would be, 34" - 10" - 45", the average woman with a 34" bust has a 28" waist & 35" hip
It isn't biologically possible to have a 10" waist. And even a true hourglass doesn't have hugely curves and a tiny waist, her curves and waist will still be in proper proportion to each other.
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It was fine when this whole thing was about models being photoshopped but this is stylized drawing of course it isn't going to be realistic
Dumb as it seems, I've long believed that growing up watching these characters contributed to my eating disorder.
The problem is that some people actually do have naturally small waists. Not as small as some of the Disney princesses, but smaller than their hips.
Side by side the realistic ones look better. Suddenly the stylized skinny ones look silly.
I think this is just fine but REALISTICALLY they are still thin. People don't look like this either...
Parents should teach their children to accept themselves. With this right here you are putting boundaries to the imagination!
Nope. Teach children to improve themselves. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Your teaching them to be fat is ok. It is unhealthy.
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These are cartoon characters FFS. If I hadn't seen a side by side comparison, I would never have noticed a difference!
you don't notice how messd up their waists really are until you stare at the normal verson for few seconds and than look back.
I think that they all look like an actual person, I hated to be little and being like why isn't my waist the size of my neck?
Woman can be skinnier than the realistic waistline portrayed in the pics and still be healthy, but I like the concept of normalizing Disney/
O, come on! Belle is just fat :P She has fat belly. It doesn't make sense to come from one axaggeration to another. :/
Smh. Commendable effort but little kids watching don't think about this... Until we tell them to.
Always found kinda disturbing that their waists were a thin as their necks. They look not only better, but like actual human beings.
How about giving them realistic hands/eyes/mouths/hair? They are cartoons.
So, they don't have a waistline at all in the remake. Yeah, the cartoons are exagerrated, but we don't all have a log as a waistline...
All of you that are commenting, saying the new waistlines are less realistic than before must have never touched a woman's body before.
I assumed that the ones in dresses were wearing corsets. Especially the one with the black corset on(aurora).
Aurora is an insanely huge difference. She was the only one with such a tiny waistline that I noticed. It weirded me out extremely.
Belle and Aurora would've been wearing corsets, so those were more accurate before the edit - the rest are great though.
Belle and Aurora would've been wearing corsets, so wouldn't have been so far off.
And after the normalization, they all still look beautiful - in fact, they look BETTER to me, than when they are all attenuated.
And the normalized ones look just fine - quite attractive. Why make them so unrealistic?
Their eyes, heads and noses are out of proportion too. What they do with cartoons is to exaggerate all features we find attractive.
For the love of God: Get. Over. It. This obsession with "Disney Princesses " is getting obnoxious.
How would Scooby doo appear if he was a realistic dog? It offends that they portray him eating a sandwich which then accordians his throat.
Lilo and Stitch is pretty much the only film where Disney got the body shape right
Lilo and Stitch is pretty much the only film where Disney got the body shape right...
if you're going to remark on their waistlines, then do horrible photoshops that ignore the clothing of the period, you're wrong.
I Actually think they look better with realistic proportion. Especially Aurora
Interesting, the thicker waistline does not take away anything artistically or cosmetically.
Interesting, the normal waistline does not take away anything artistically or cosmetically. Who knew? Normal is beautiful.
They're are chuffing cartoon characters get a grip! - I don't see you taking the clothes off Mickey or the wings off tinkerbelle!
3. They changed more than just waist proportions on Elsa, Belle, and Aurura. How does that make their waistlines more realistic?
1. Ariel's waist looks great now, but they out the tail out of proportion. It's too thick now.
Ah, these are cartoons. NOT real life! Didn't your parents teach you the difference?
I prefer them with thin waist . They look more beautiful the way Disney draw them.
People need to stop being insecure. I know healthy women with waists that thin, and healthy ones thicker, shape isn't key, health is.
I think she needs to stop being insecure about the fact that she doesn't look like that. I personally know healthy women who are that thin.
I can't say any of them look better with a natural waist, but none of them look worse with it either. SoNatural is what our kids should see.
I think that is awesome :) Especially Jasmine she looks much better with a normal waist
Actually, while I they ARE too skinny-waisted, the "corrections" went way too far and don't match the rest of the body proportions.
Jasmine almost looked like you could break her in half before.
This is b******t, I don't see how them being chubby all of the sudden, is supposed to be more realistic.
They all look much better. The only time women's waits even came close to that was in the time of corsets, and that was anguish. :)
To me that's kind of scary when you think of the subliminal implications we are giving to young kids. No wonder they are so insecure later
To me that's kind of scary when you think of the subliminal implications we are giving to young kids. No wonder they are so insecure later
Pocahontas, Elsa, and Jasmine look better. Ariel, Belle, and Aurora look gross. Idealization is okay, to an extent. It's art.
Pocahontas, Elsa, and Jasmine look better. Ariel, Belle, and Aurora are overcorrected. Idealizing is okay, to an extent. It's art.
Cartoon characters...get it non of them are real...you people are fighting over a penceled in character... Sick really sick...this world shm
Why are people obsessed with making thin things fat or as you call it normal.but get pissed off when it's other way around! Double standard
Pocahontas still looks pretty hot. Notice how there's no Mulan? That's cuz Mulan is realistic~
Jasmine looks good but I don't like belle. I think it might just be the angle. I like aurora
I love how some of them went from unrealistically skinny to average. Why not to realistically skinny? Some of us really are built that way.
It looks like type 2 diabetes maybe in the future of some of these princessess and hernias for the Princes too.
A Dress and long hair don't make a woman. Adjust their breasts along with their waists so that they don't look like guys (Belle and Aurora)
Or at least don't make it flat colour on the bodice of the dress so that it looks like a chubby guy with fantastic hair and makeup in it
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Actually the waistline of Pocahontas *the disney one* Isn't that bad compared to the other disney princesses
They look beautiful! but the ones with the corset would actually look slimmer ;P
I actually thought Pocahontas did have a realistic waistline before. Mine is pretty damn close to hers. The other princeseses though... yeah
Belle and aurora are both wearing corsets... their waistlines were dead on for that..
Don´t forget that some of them wear a corset so they should have a waistline corresponding to that
dont forget that some of them wear probably a corset - they will not have the usual proportions anyway with that
Sadly, it's almost bizarre to see a "realistic, non-corset" version. We've been brainwashed from the get-go.
What is unrealistic about elsas and pocahontas waistlines? Jasmine defenitly needed that extra meat, while rest could have had less added on
Prince Phillip's waist needs fixing, it looks like a part of the picture is missing.
Fun how the issue is the "realism" of the waistline belonging to a character in a universe of talking fish and lobster.
i think this post was made by skinny b***h haters. its not impossible to look like that and be healthy. Some of them were over exgaggerated
With a normal waist, they don't seem hysterical (Con una cintura normal, no parecen tan histéricas)
Some look better...Jasmine, Pocahontas, Arial and Aurora, especially. Elsa already looks fine and I think they made Belle a bit too wide.
Actually, not Aurora...she's too wide too. The dresses of Belle and Aurora would have corsets and their waists would be pinched in.
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Aurora and Belle are the only ones I think look worse (maybe bc of what they are wearing?) but overall they all look better(:
No offense, but you need to work on your spelling.
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Stupid!!!! It's fantasy. It's supposed to be over the top. Earth to idiots! Mermaids aren't even real!
Tell that to the millions of girls who idolize the princesses. Barbie isn't real either, doesn't mean she's not a role model too.
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Jasmine's hips would also had been wider, but still tapering to the lower limbs.
Suddenly you also realize that recognize a heroin, look for small boobs
Possibly because of an unflattering dress. Also, that dress would have more petticoats to create the bell shape. I know, I'm navel gazing.
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They become so much more beautiful! Honestly, I find those Disney figures which look like wasps instead of looking like people, quite gross.
Disney is just the latest target of adult women with self image issues. Unhealthy women hate to be reminded there are women who are healthy.
This is an adult problem. Projecting is all this is, those who are unhealthy don't like to be reminded there are women who are. Silliness.
Who cares? They are just cartoons... Beasts don't turn in to humans, genies don't come out of lamps, and girls can't make ice castles
Fairy tale or not, there's no doubt millions of girls idolize these princesses. Anyway, it's always bugged the heck out of me.
They still look beautiful! It's the originals that look unhealthy and frail.
Sigh... Did a fat chick with photoshop skills and a muffin surplus get emotional again?
It is not something to dream about, being as thin as you 'can'. Being happy and healthy, that we should wish for!
They aren't shapeless, they are more naturally shaped. It is not biologically possible to have your waist be smaller than your head. And very few if any of us have curves that are drastically larger than the rest of our bodies.
Load More Replies... the only good looking realistik waistline is Jasmine and Pocahontas....the others are...well,you just exaggerate them
A realistic image of a mermaid? Really? Belle looks normal in the original. That is what Corsets look like.
Normal to have a waist thinner than your head?! Corset or not ...
Load More Replies... They look good either way. With Elsa, Belle and Aurora though, in the times they lived, they wore corsets so that waist wasn't that uncommon
okay, then what about their hairs, or other body portion? these are tales, the plot either based upon unreality, so, just leave them alone
They have already tackled at least one of the other things..https://www.boredpanda.com/disney-princesses-realistic-hair-loryn-brantz/
Load More Replies... I personally like them. If all disney princesses were like this, it would show young girls that you don't have to be super skinny to be beautiful or to make a difference.
Realistic waist Realistic bodies Better just use a camera. But the story isn't realistic as well. Let's boycot culture in general.
See it's funny cause in my head they aren't twig thin. I always thought of them as healthy! :)
Some of you are missing the point. Sure it's a fantasy, but the messages it's send it's viewers are very real.
I've always believed that Disney videos contributed to my anorexia - I've always felt that my waist wasn't narrow enough.
If the Jasmine one was a real woman her measurements would be, 34" - 10" - 45", the average woman with a 34" bust has a 28" waist & 35" hip
It isn't biologically possible to have a 10" waist. And even a true hourglass doesn't have hugely curves and a tiny waist, her curves and waist will still be in proper proportion to each other.
Load More Replies... It was fine when this whole thing was about models being photoshopped but this is stylized drawing of course it isn't going to be realistic
Dumb as it seems, I've long believed that growing up watching these characters contributed to my eating disorder.
The problem is that some people actually do have naturally small waists. Not as small as some of the Disney princesses, but smaller than their hips.
Side by side the realistic ones look better. Suddenly the stylized skinny ones look silly.
I think this is just fine but REALISTICALLY they are still thin. People don't look like this either...
Parents should teach their children to accept themselves. With this right here you are putting boundaries to the imagination!
Nope. Teach children to improve themselves. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. Your teaching them to be fat is ok. It is unhealthy.
Load More Replies... These are cartoon characters FFS. If I hadn't seen a side by side comparison, I would never have noticed a difference!
you don't notice how messd up their waists really are until you stare at the normal verson for few seconds and than look back.
I think that they all look like an actual person, I hated to be little and being like why isn't my waist the size of my neck?
Woman can be skinnier than the realistic waistline portrayed in the pics and still be healthy, but I like the concept of normalizing Disney/
O, come on! Belle is just fat :P She has fat belly. It doesn't make sense to come from one axaggeration to another. :/
Smh. Commendable effort but little kids watching don't think about this... Until we tell them to.
Always found kinda disturbing that their waists were a thin as their necks. They look not only better, but like actual human beings.
How about giving them realistic hands/eyes/mouths/hair? They are cartoons.
So, they don't have a waistline at all in the remake. Yeah, the cartoons are exagerrated, but we don't all have a log as a waistline...
All of you that are commenting, saying the new waistlines are less realistic than before must have never touched a woman's body before.
I assumed that the ones in dresses were wearing corsets. Especially the one with the black corset on(aurora).
Aurora is an insanely huge difference. She was the only one with such a tiny waistline that I noticed. It weirded me out extremely.
Belle and Aurora would've been wearing corsets, so those were more accurate before the edit - the rest are great though.
Belle and Aurora would've been wearing corsets, so wouldn't have been so far off.
And after the normalization, they all still look beautiful - in fact, they look BETTER to me, than when they are all attenuated.
And the normalized ones look just fine - quite attractive. Why make them so unrealistic?
Their eyes, heads and noses are out of proportion too. What they do with cartoons is to exaggerate all features we find attractive.
For the love of God: Get. Over. It. This obsession with "Disney Princesses " is getting obnoxious.
How would Scooby doo appear if he was a realistic dog? It offends that they portray him eating a sandwich which then accordians his throat.
Lilo and Stitch is pretty much the only film where Disney got the body shape right
Lilo and Stitch is pretty much the only film where Disney got the body shape right...
if you're going to remark on their waistlines, then do horrible photoshops that ignore the clothing of the period, you're wrong.
I Actually think they look better with realistic proportion. Especially Aurora
Interesting, the thicker waistline does not take away anything artistically or cosmetically.
Interesting, the normal waistline does not take away anything artistically or cosmetically. Who knew? Normal is beautiful.
They're are chuffing cartoon characters get a grip! - I don't see you taking the clothes off Mickey or the wings off tinkerbelle!
3. They changed more than just waist proportions on Elsa, Belle, and Aurura. How does that make their waistlines more realistic?
1. Ariel's waist looks great now, but they out the tail out of proportion. It's too thick now.
Ah, these are cartoons. NOT real life! Didn't your parents teach you the difference?
I prefer them with thin waist . They look more beautiful the way Disney draw them.
People need to stop being insecure. I know healthy women with waists that thin, and healthy ones thicker, shape isn't key, health is.
I think she needs to stop being insecure about the fact that she doesn't look like that. I personally know healthy women who are that thin.
I can't say any of them look better with a natural waist, but none of them look worse with it either. SoNatural is what our kids should see.
I think that is awesome :) Especially Jasmine she looks much better with a normal waist
Actually, while I they ARE too skinny-waisted, the "corrections" went way too far and don't match the rest of the body proportions.
Jasmine almost looked like you could break her in half before.
This is b******t, I don't see how them being chubby all of the sudden, is supposed to be more realistic.
They all look much better. The only time women's waits even came close to that was in the time of corsets, and that was anguish. :)
To me that's kind of scary when you think of the subliminal implications we are giving to young kids. No wonder they are so insecure later
To me that's kind of scary when you think of the subliminal implications we are giving to young kids. No wonder they are so insecure later
Pocahontas, Elsa, and Jasmine look better. Ariel, Belle, and Aurora look gross. Idealization is okay, to an extent. It's art.
Pocahontas, Elsa, and Jasmine look better. Ariel, Belle, and Aurora are overcorrected. Idealizing is okay, to an extent. It's art.
Cartoon characters...get it non of them are real...you people are fighting over a penceled in character... Sick really sick...this world shm
Why are people obsessed with making thin things fat or as you call it normal.but get pissed off when it's other way around! Double standard
Pocahontas still looks pretty hot. Notice how there's no Mulan? That's cuz Mulan is realistic~
Jasmine looks good but I don't like belle. I think it might just be the angle. I like aurora
I love how some of them went from unrealistically skinny to average. Why not to realistically skinny? Some of us really are built that way.
It looks like type 2 diabetes maybe in the future of some of these princessess and hernias for the Princes too.
A Dress and long hair don't make a woman. Adjust their breasts along with their waists so that they don't look like guys (Belle and Aurora)
Or at least don't make it flat colour on the bodice of the dress so that it looks like a chubby guy with fantastic hair and makeup in it
Load More Replies... Actually the waistline of Pocahontas *the disney one* Isn't that bad compared to the other disney princesses
They look beautiful! but the ones with the corset would actually look slimmer ;P
I actually thought Pocahontas did have a realistic waistline before. Mine is pretty damn close to hers. The other princeseses though... yeah
Belle and aurora are both wearing corsets... their waistlines were dead on for that..
Don´t forget that some of them wear a corset so they should have a waistline corresponding to that
dont forget that some of them wear probably a corset - they will not have the usual proportions anyway with that
Sadly, it's almost bizarre to see a "realistic, non-corset" version. We've been brainwashed from the get-go.
What is unrealistic about elsas and pocahontas waistlines? Jasmine defenitly needed that extra meat, while rest could have had less added on
Prince Phillip's waist needs fixing, it looks like a part of the picture is missing.
Fun how the issue is the "realism" of the waistline belonging to a character in a universe of talking fish and lobster.
i think this post was made by skinny b***h haters. its not impossible to look like that and be healthy. Some of them were over exgaggerated
With a normal waist, they don't seem hysterical (Con una cintura normal, no parecen tan histéricas)
Some look better...Jasmine, Pocahontas, Arial and Aurora, especially. Elsa already looks fine and I think they made Belle a bit too wide.
Actually, not Aurora...she's too wide too. The dresses of Belle and Aurora would have corsets and their waists would be pinched in.
Load More Replies... Aurora and Belle are the only ones I think look worse (maybe bc of what they are wearing?) but overall they all look better(:
No offense, but you need to work on your spelling.
Load More Replies... Stupid!!!! It's fantasy. It's supposed to be over the top. Earth to idiots! Mermaids aren't even real!
Tell that to the millions of girls who idolize the princesses. Barbie isn't real either, doesn't mean she's not a role model too.
Load More Replies... Jasmine's hips would also had been wider, but still tapering to the lower limbs.
Suddenly you also realize that recognize a heroin, look for small boobs
Possibly because of an unflattering dress. Also, that dress would have more petticoats to create the bell shape. I know, I'm navel gazing.
Load More Replies... They become so much more beautiful! Honestly, I find those Disney figures which look like wasps instead of looking like people, quite gross.
Disney is just the latest target of adult women with self image issues. Unhealthy women hate to be reminded there are women who are healthy.
This is an adult problem. Projecting is all this is, those who are unhealthy don't like to be reminded there are women who are. Silliness.
Who cares? They are just cartoons... Beasts don't turn in to humans, genies don't come out of lamps, and girls can't make ice castles
Fairy tale or not, there's no doubt millions of girls idolize these princesses. Anyway, it's always bugged the heck out of me.
They still look beautiful! It's the originals that look unhealthy and frail.
Sigh... Did a fat chick with photoshop skills and a muffin surplus get emotional again?
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