Norway considers a warning label for super skinny models

By Maura Judkis
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com

Skinny models that promote an unrealistic standard of beauty could soon come with warning labels in Norway if the country adopts a new action plan to curb eating disorders by discouraging deceptive advertising.
 
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Audun Lysbakken, the country’s equality minister, has proposed labeling photos of digitally-altered images of thin models with a warning that says, “This advertisement has been altered and presents an inaccurate image of how this model really looks.” England and France have also proposed measures to curtail unrealistic images of bodies, but no such measure has been considered in the U.S. yet.

Photoshopped images of models are often blamed for the prevalence of eating disorders around the world. Sometimes, the retouching is subtle — as in a 2007 image of Faith Hill for Redbook in which the singer’s arms were slimmed, crow’s feet removed, and clavicle smoothed — or sometimes it’s more overt, as in the famous Ralph Lauren Photoshop blunder that made a model’s head bigger than her waist.

Women’s blogs such as Jezebel have worked to unveil the pre-touch-up photos of models so their readers can see for themselves exactly how altered the average photo shoot can be. The Photoshopped images affect men too, giving them unrealistic expectations of how women should look.
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What do you think about the possibility of labeling photos of digitally-altered images with a warning?  How could this effect the way that women and men view themselves and their bodies?