Thursday, July 5, 2012

No More Altered Images For Seventeen Magazine

Seventeen magazine has made a pact with the public that it will "never change girls' body or face shapes" and "celebrate every kind of beauty in our pages".

The magazine also agreed to show behind the scenes photos, so that the public can see what goes into creating a photo shoot.

All of this happened because of a petitioned started by a fourteen year old from Maine.

Julia Bluhm began in April as she started interviewing friends at school, recording their opinions on how photo shopped images in magazines effected them.

In May she brought the magazine a petition with 84,000 signatures on it, and organized a protest in front of their offices in New York City.

After she was interviewed by prime time TV shows, the magazine's editor in chief granted her an interview, in which she apparently made her case.

The August issue of Seventeen will contain a copy of the pact, which the entire staff has signed.

Julia has now moved on to join a group which is trying to get the same kind of pact from Teen Vogue.

No comments:

Post a Comment