Body image

What is wrong with wanting to look like a model?

Looking like a model is an unrealistic goal for 99 percent of the population. For most of us, genetics will not allow us to look like a model, no matter how hard we try.

Men and women who are models have clothes that are made for them. Also, hours of lighting work are done before the model’s photo shoot or filming, the models have their hair and makeup touched up every three minutes and it is standard practice to touch up the photos or film on the computer before they ever are shown to the public.

Some magazines do not even have live models for their photo shoots. One magazine created its cover model by pasting together features from different women. She is not even a real person. Keep all this in mind when watching movies or scanning magazines and catalogs. These models may have been touched up and airbrushed, and no longer look like themselves.