Posted in Body Image, Enlighten Education, Magazines, Media, Plastic Surgery on May 6th, 2009 4 Comments »
I was recently invited onto Channel 7’s The Morning Show to discuss an “Extreme Makeover” story in Girlfriend magazine’s June 2009 issue. Using before and after shots of a teen girl, they show readers just how much work goes into producing the perfect images on magazine covers: the hours of hair and makeup, clever lighting [...]
Posted in Beauty Industry, Body Image, Plastic Surgery on Mar 11th, 2009 11 Comments »
Recently I spent the most wonderful fortnight working with teen girls across New Zealand. On the way home, I stopped to purchase some duty free and stumbled upon the most bizarre beauty product: a NZ face cream that boasts sheep’s placenta as an ingredient.
I have now discovered that using placenta in facial products and treatments – [...]
Posted in Body Image, Bullying, Friendship, Parents, Plastic Surgery, Schools on Oct 30th, 2008 7 Comments »
The article below first appeared in the UK Daily Mirror in September of this year. It raises so many issues relating to teen girl friendships, self esteem, body image and parenting that I have decided to copy it in its entirity here.
Below the article are questions worth considering. Teachers: this would make an excellent stimulus for a discussion [...]
Posted in Body Image, Bullying, Cyber world / Bullying, Friendship, Magazines, Media, Parents, Plastic Surgery, Schools, Underage Drinking on Apr 29th, 2008 6 Comments »
AND the importance of moving beyond finger pointing.
Queensland school girls have formed an exclusive club, known as Club 21, which encourages members to be ranked between 1 and 21 based on their thinness, good looks, binge drinking escapades and popularity with boys. This number is then drawn on their hand for all to see.
The club [...]
Posted in Body Image, Media, Plastic Surgery, Women and Film on Feb 22nd, 2008 7 Comments »
Yes Keira, your lips are totally real.
Last month, I watched Pride and Prejudice on DVD. I can’t tell you much about it because I was madly distracted by Keira Knightley’s top lip. Huge. Like someone had cut a Floaty in half and glued it to her face. I couldn’t remember noticing that Floaty lip before [...]
Posted in Body Image, Media, Plastic Surgery, Power of Words, Sexualisation of children on Dec 30th, 2007 8 Comments »
I am really pleased the media has supported us in our outrage over the numerous examples of inappropriate products and services being marketed to little girls in the lead up to Christmas.
An interview with me over the inappropriate promotion of brazilian waxing on children’s web site girl.com.au featured recently in the Adelaide Herald Sun:
Herald Sun : Children’s Site Promotes Brazilian [...]
Posted in Plastic Surgery, Women and Film on Oct 18th, 2007 3 Comments »
Various newspaper articles have reported that the Head of Warner studios, Jeff Robinov, recently declared that; “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead.” It is alleged that his studio believes that female stars cannot guarantee top box office returns. No surprise that Warner Bros is now denying this report. Best this type of talk is kept for behind studio [...]
Posted in Magazines, Plastic Surgery on Sep 9th, 2007 No Comments »
An interesting article on Ninemsn , Quarter of Girls Want Plastic Surgery , provides some interesting statistics on teen girls and their body image.
A quarter of teenage girls in Australia say they would get plastic surgery if they could, and two per cent have already gone under the knife. Almost 60 per cent wanted to be lighter on the [...]
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