Dove's new "evolution" commercial.
While I'd like to assume that everyone knows that people in real life don't look like the models in magazines, I was one of those teenage girls with torn-out pages pasted all over my closet doors so I could spend at least a small portion of each day wondering why I wasn't a size 0, why I wasn't five-foot-ten, why I wasn't perfect.
I love Dove.
Wait -- are you saying that feeling is supposed to go away?
ReplyDeleteI had not seen that commercial yet. I now love that commercial and am planning on blurbing it up on my blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing this my way. (As I respectfully delurk - Hello!)
-- Kerri.
This video is fantastic. How are we ever supposed to live up to these false ideas of beauty? And why do we even want to? I wish I didn't. I love TV but I hate adverts.
ReplyDeleteI now feel vaguely nauseated and horrified, like I've turned over a rock and discovered something squiggly. Who at Dove is pushing this Real Beauty campaign? Because I want to send them a love letter.
ReplyDeleteAll you have to do to see the real side of what wealth and fame does to women is look at a picture - any picture, really - of Tara "Walking Hangover" Reid. Or Kate "Crackhead" Moss. Or Nicole "Bone Is The New Muscle" Richie.
ReplyDeleteThen go forth and call yourself blessed.