This is my first post on this blog. I am going to be blogging about the "perfect" body in advertising, but I also am going to be blogging about what women find beautiful in different cultures around the world.
For my first post I wanted to focus on what women find beautiful in the US. In order to help me show this I am going to post a clip from the show "The Price of Beauty" hosted by Jessica Simpson. I am going to post a few different clips every time I post about what women around the world find beautiful. I will post these clips and then comment on them.
This first clip is episode 8 in the television show. It is about how Jessica and everyone she went on the journey around the world to find what women around the world feel is beautiful with travel back to Los Angeles and talk to high school girls about their body image.
Summary of the episode from VH1: "In the final episode of the "The Price of Beauty" Jessica, Ken and CaCee travel home to the sunny city of Los Angeles! Jessica, empowered by her recent travels, is determined to share her newly found sense of self with young girls right in her own back yard. Our cast visits a group of high school girls battling self-esteem issues. Their emotional stories touch Jessica's heart and she implores the young girls to believe in themselves and to define beauty from the inside out! Jessica invites three lucky high school girls to get a makeover and walk the runway in her big finale fashion show. The giddy girls are made over from head to toe, compliments of Jessica's clothing line and Ken's beauty salon. At the salon the girls meet Jessica's special guest from Thailand, Panya! Panya is in for quite the makeover herself. All of the makeover magic is leading up to the grand finale fashion show where Jessica will announce her plans to launch a Self Esteem movement in conjunction with the Operation Smile Charity. Panya, the high school girls and a bevy of models that represent each country from the series, strut down the runway in celebration of beauty and self esteem!"
That Clip was so full of emotion, watching those young high school girls talk about how much they don't like themselves and then watching them stand up and say they were beautiul, it seemed like they were actually believing it. I definitely think that more girls need to say they are beautiful but more than that they need to believe it.
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