Alfonso Cuarón

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The beauty industry relies on making us feel unhappy and ashamed of our bodies. They make money by making people insecure and by pushing us to do whatever it takes to have the stereotypical and temporary “perfect” body. Over time there have been different ideal bodies, but we have this one now, and why’s that? About a hundred years ago they realized that you could earn money by stabilizing an impossible-to-get ideal body. We’re throwing arrows without knowing that there is no center. And that’s how everything started. “Don’t eat too much or else you’ll get fat”, we’ve been educated since born to PRAISE that body. It’s everywhere: it’s the body that sells you the shampoo that promises you golden locks on your TV, it’s the body that sells your morning cookies on your newspaper, it’s the body that sells you furniture on the poster on the streets, it’s the body that sells you… everything.
When they sell you a product, they don’t only sell you the product, but the DREAM. In publicity they sell you the body and the accessory to reach the dream.
It’s the body that we destroy ourselves to have, it’s the body that only 5% of the world wide population has. And what about the resting 95%? It’s running behind the 5%, by dieting, impossible exercises, buying pills, vomiting and much more, always more every day. Or even just by looking at themselves in the mirror and believing that they’re not enough and that they’d have to change. It’s observing our reflection and moving your fat backwards just to see how our body “would be” if we dieted just a little bit more. The value of the beauty industry ONLY in the United States is 60 billion.
We’ve always fought for this body, but are we going to fight for it forever?
It’s not your body you have to change, but your concept on it. | Posted on 04/Dec/2017 12:26:27