Break out the cake and balloon animals, because it’s time we all threw Gisele Bundchen a pity party.?
The former Victoria’s Secret angel is urging the fashion world to ditch the Photoshop when it comes to advertising campaigns, saying that “our imperfections are what makes us unique and beautiful”. Uh huh, come back when you’ve got a hunchback, moustache and wonky eyes, then we might start taking your thoughts on imperfection seriously.
Gisele’s latest campaign with BLK DNM (Black Denim? Bulky Dynamite? Baltik Dandyism?) was shot by Johan Lindeberg, whom the supermodel praises for trying to make her look as horrible as possible. Like anyone would pass up the chance to try and turn a supermodel into a troll if they could.
“I loved his approach because I feel like women should be really real and raw, and it doesn’t really happen anymore. I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful. He gets that. He’s not trying to retouch you or put a pretty light on you. He’s not like ‘you gotta look a certain way.’ He’s like ‘you are you’ so now I’m just gonna be here with a camera, so express yourself how you like.”
The model proudly claims she wasn’t wearing a stitch of makeup, hadn’t had her hair styled and the final result wasn’t airbrushed at all. Which may explain why, out of the five shots released, you can only actually see her face in one of them.
Geez, would you look at all those flaws! Please, most women would give their left arm to look like that with a?cement-mixer full of makeup and professional hair styling.
This definitely has the stink of hypocrisy about it – as a model, she’s spent her entire career peddling things designed to make women think they look beautiful. If everybody actually started embracing their flaws instead of dropping ridiculous amounts of cash to hide them, she’d be working the drive-through at McDonalds before the week was out.
Quite frankly, I’m sure if you surveyed a thousand women, 99% would recoil in horror at the thought of a makeup-free photo of themselves being plastered on billboards around the world. Imperfections may be what make us beautiful, Gisele, but it would sound a lot better coming from somebody who doesn’t stand to make a buttload of cash from exploiting those imperfections.
Shiela says
Absolutely, I couldn’t agree more. She sounds a bit hypocritical.
John says
Then why are you covering your imperfections with make up? Look at the picture without any makeup, end of argument, a 10 becomes a 5.