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Julia Bluhm, a 14-year-old girl from Maine, has created a petition entitled Seventeen Magazine: Give Girls Images Of Real Girls!
The eighth-grade student requests that editors of the Hearst title 'commit to printing one unaltered - real - photo spread per month.'
Outspoken: Julia Bluhm (pictured), 14, has petitioned against Seventeen magazine for its heavy use of airbrushing within its pages
The teenager has uploaded the petition, which has attracted almost 8,000 signatures, on the campaigning website Change.org.
Miss Bluhm, who is also a regular blogger for the 'girl-fueled' activist site Sparksummit.com, wrote in her petition that 'those pretty women that we see in magazines are fake.'
She continued: 'They're often Photoshopped, airbrushed, edited to look thinner and to appear like they have perfect skin. A girl you see in a magazine probably looks a lot different in real life.'
She also claimed that the constant use of airbrushing by the title has led to low self-esteem levels among her friends.
Cover girl: Teen star Chloe Moretz is Seventeen magazine's most recent cover girl, appearing on the May issue. The image looks suspiciously flawless
Clean complexion: Jennifer Lawrence, star of The Hunger Games, was also featured on the magazine's cover recently
The petition read: 'Girls want to be accepted, appreciated and liked. And when they don't fit the criteria, some girls like to fix themselves. This can lead to eating disorders, dieting, depression and low self-esteem.'
Miss Bluhm, who is also enrolled in ballet classes at her middle school, recalled some of the comments she hears at school, in the petition.
'They're often Photoshopped, airbrushed, edited to look thinner and to appear like they have perfect skin'
They include 'It's a fat day' and 'I ate well today but I still feel fat.'
The outspoken teenager also targeted the media, claiming that it 'tells us that pretty girls are impossibly thin with perfect skin.'
While such criticism is often voiced, the words are less commonly heard coming out of the mouth of a child.
It seems that the title's own readers are fed up with the misrepresentation of models.
'I'm a teenage girl and I don't like what I see,' the petition read.
The news comes after Glamour magazine, a competing title, announced that it would take a stricter stand on the representation of women by asking its photographers to refrain from altering images even if requested to do so by the subject.
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Even if they use 'real girls' they're still going to airbrush the photos. The airbrush everything! Even pictures of food! It's sad, but true.
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Why does it matter that they use Photoshop? Magazines use it to get a certain look usually that mimics flawlessness. It's not a bad thing. We ALL know these actressses and models are human and don't look that good in real life!! Enough people are buying these magazines or else maybe these companies would change their marketing strategies. I'm 19 and I have my body insecurities for sure but at the end of the day whether I see these "perfect" images or not wont change the fact that I have body issues! I think these young girls need to work on their self esteem, not the magazine industry. I highly doubt eliminating Photoshop is the answer. Retouching has been happening for decades.
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If they didn't make you feel bad, they wouldn't have anything to sell you make you want to attain their level of "perfection". THIS is the truth of media. Every glossy exists to create a chasm between reality and what they want to sell, hoping you will drop the dollars to bridge it.
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These magazines have been "airbrusing" and fixing photos (re-touching) for at least the last 30 years. Photoshop just makes it easier and more obvious. I took a photography class in high school back in the late 1980's and we did a whole series of airbrusing photos. The teacher even brought in articles about professionals doing it to pictures of Cindy Crawford and other supermodels. No pictures you see are real, they're all re-touched (no Photoshopped) and have been for a very long time.
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