How media images influence the mania for slimness and perfection: When Brittney Spears, Johny Depp, Pamela Anderson & co. Become normal

Would you have recognized this lady? This is supposed to be Nicole Kidmann - what she might look like if she were a "normal" average American. The series of distorted celebrity photos may be a little malicious - but also healing because they show us beyond any obsession with perfection and slimness Eyes leads that Stars too only People are.

Stars without perfection-madness

Recently, Julia Witt, head of the Berlin Senator's Office for Economy, one with me Lecture on “How do we get out of the Angelina Jolie trap?” held. While I was more concerned with the psychological side, Julia spoke about the influence of the media on our compulsion to be perfect - here is her review.

For example Angelina Jolie, but also many other stars: For us, these seem to be the symbols of the perfect person: smart, beautiful, successfully at work, children, travelling, dream man - and always freshly peeled from the egg. And she just produces at Women the desire to emulate this ideal.

Fat men do not make career, fat women!

In her column, TAZ editor Julia Seeliger has just aptly written about the absurdities of the slimming delusion - and also explains how the slimming picture also affects the career prospects:
And the following still applies: slim is beautiful. A fat man can point a finger at the fat woman without being blamed. A fat man can do well Career do, a fat woman has it harder

David Beckham in Oklahoma?

The more exciting I found the unfortunately no longer existing site PlanetHiltron.com, which apparently pursued the question: What would happen if the celebrated and glamorous stars were normal people and lived, for example, in Oklahoma?

If they don't have a personal trainer, personal assistant, fashion designer, time to exercise four hours a day, Money for botox injections or top stylists etc. - probably then many of them would look like the normal average American.

Paparrazi photos serve the pleasure of hurt

Now, I tend not to be the friend of malicious paparazzi photos, but one like that SALE can contribute much more figuratively than all the talk of “stars are only human” that we understand exactly that: that stars are also only human. Presumably, this professional group also serves exactly this need for Schadenfreude - although the photos below are not real paparazzi shots but satirical alienations.

The perfection with which the photos shown below were distorted gives an idea of ​​what is technically possible today - also to present us with people who appear perfect looking in glossy magazines. Only one thing is closed again criticize, because it serves all the clichés: that women were almost all made fatter.

By the way: Since the original page no longer exists: The photos I found here.

Brittney Spears

Cameron Diaz

Sharon Stone

by Tom Cruise

Johny Depp

Sahra Jessica Parker

Pamela Anderson

John Travolta

Jennifer Aniston

Gwyn Stefani

Victoria and David Beckham