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Stop the Beauty Madness: Ad Campaign Challenges 'Beauty' Myths & Stereotypes

Stop the Beauty Madness: Ad Campaign Challenges 'Beauty' Myths & Stereotypes

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Pamela Powers
Jul 10, 2014
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#StopTheBeautyMadness

#StopTheBeautyMadness

I am a real woman, with a real woman's body-- not the body of an 11-year-old boy.

I am a Renaissance nude trapped in a Twiggy world.

I am Everywoman.

For the youngsters out there, Twiggy was the popular 1960s model who launched the anorexic waif look, which has been the scourge of curvy women for decades.

Slowly... very slowly... our s…

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