The Photoshop Law

In a media obsessed world, it was a relief to find a law being passed to stop the over use of photoshop on models. This law is being put into legislation in Israel where 2 percent of girls 14-18 have severe eating disorders. The fact is that this problem is happening throughout the world. Photoshop is routinely used to fix images of women, even if they do not need it. This "Photoshop law" would force adverts in magazines to disclose the fact that women were digitally altered to look thinner and stop the use of underweight models. There is a revealing slideshow in this article, http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/326778/20120411/supermodels-without-photoshop-photos-louis-vuitton-2010.html,


























that reveals photos of what models really look like. It is not surprising the unrealistic expectations that girls are forced to live up to, when they only see photo shopped pictures of models that are only a small percentage of women. I hope that other countries take a page out of Israels book and start passing laws to force the media to show women how they truly are. Not a digitally enhanced view of what advertisers think women should look like.