Fair enough. So let's go back to talking about whether she is a participant in this game. What are the guidelines if she ignores them all the time?
Anyone remember the first season of Friends (when Courtney Cox was supposed to be the break out star) and Jen, who was adorable, posed naked on the cover of Rolling Stone with her tush in the air. She looked great, I thought, but complained bitterly they weren’t supposed to show her naked behind. Even though she posed naked with her naked behind in the air. Looking pretty good, in my opinion.
She's been posing naked on covers ever since and looking fabulous, as she always does, because she's kind of perfect. But then she gets pissed because people comment on her body.
I do think she looks beautiful on those covers and should pose for them, if she wants. But to get angry and act as if she's not a contributor to the whole message that "girls are not pretty unless they’re incredibly thin, that they’re not worthy of our attention unless they look like a supermodel or an actress on the cover of a magazine”… is kind of weird to me.
Do you think, and this is a serious question, that people are fascinated with her body because she is always showing it off? Who is telling us to even notice it in the fist place?
Agreed.
Did you see Piers Morgan's comments?:
"Hmmm.
You may want to dismount from that high horse at this point, Jennifer.
There’s another reason why the media objectify and scrutinise famous women, and why little girls get confused about beauty and body image.
It’s this: female stars like Jennifer Aniston deliberately perpetuate the myth of ‘perfection’ by posing for endless magazine covers which have been airbrushed so much that in some cases the celebrity is virtually unrecognisable.
This morning, I Googled ‘Jennifer Aniston magazine covers’ and a veritable avalanche of results appeared."
Go ahead and Google away. It is true.
Piers went on to say, "There she was on the cover of Elle, GQ, Rolling Stone, InStyle, Grazia, Vogue, Red, Marie Claire, Allure, Harpers Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Hollywood Reporter, Cosmopolitan, People and… well, I could go on and on but check it yourself and you’ll see what I found.
I don’t know the inner workings of each magazine or photo shoot, but I do know with my old newspaper editor hat on that almost all these cover shots had clearly been airbrushed to make Jennifer look even more perfect than she already is.
Cellulite’s been removed, crease-lines decreased, pimples expunged.
In many of them, this detailed work has continued to the rest of her semi-naked or even fully naked body; thighs trimmed, butts toned, the vaguest suggestion of bingo wings eliminated.
It’s the same type of forensic cover photo cover-up which goes on all day every day on magazine picture desks the world over.
The aim? To sell a false image of perfect beauty.
Why? To sell magazines and to sell the cover star’s personal brand.
These covers, and I estimate Jennifer Aniston has done over 100 in her career, have made both her and the magazines a ton of money."
He goes on to say, "But if she really wants to make a difference to this ugly process, she can start by getting a tiny bit uglier herself and letting us see what she REALLY looks like on a magazine cover.
Then the little girls she’s so worried about can know exactly what they are aspiring to be.
Perhaps as Jenn approaches 50 she is wondering how long she can keep this up!?
