Happy Belated Birthday, Marilyn!

Source: Wikipedia

Yesterday would have been the 88th birthday of one of Hollywood´s biggest sex symbols of the 50s. Marilyn Monroe.  

Yesterday I saw lots of posts on the internet about her, showing her off during her best years. She had a turbulent love life and a very tight relationship with  psychiatrists. Maybe without all the problems that come with glam she would´ve lived longer. Who knows. As I was watching some of her videos on YouTube, I couldn´t help but notice how the conception of beauty in the media has radically changed in the last couple of decades.

Not only big fashion labels make it almost impossible to fit in their best garnments (and actually look good), also technology gives society – especially to the younger generations of women and the older generation of men - a hard time since 1988 (the year in which Adobe bought the rights to Photoshop from Thomas Knoll, its early developer).

If I compare what used to be sexy in the 50s and in the 60s, and what is thought to be sexy today, I can´t help to wonder „What the hell has happened to us“ !

Women like  Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot and Sofia Loren have written the history of beauty on the big scream. Sensual, curvy, woman like and sexy, those women should be more someone we look up to then today´s almost anorexic super models. Here is the cover page of People Today (June 18, 1952) showing what in the 50s was the portrait of a perfect woman

Source: http://www.pinterest.com/estudiop2013/marylin-l-magazine-covers/

I hear teenagers in stores being upset if they don´t fit size 32 pants (xxs), and them complaining about not looking like model Bianca Balti (L´Oreal Paris Make Up Line 2014) when putting on make up.  Others look at big celebrities and think they were born this way! Don´t forget that they spend lots of their freetime (and some of their money) on nutritians, surgeouns (yes, eyelids and eyebrows don´t lift up on their own, lips don´t become bigger with age, and skin does not become smoother as you get older!) and on lots of other little things which make them appear beautiful!

Do you really believe a Mascara will give you cover page eyelashes? If yes, then you must be pretty naive. Not only there are different make up techniques used for photoshooting (the kind of make up which is really not made for daylight but rather for flashlights) but also there is always an extra technology touch to make those thighs look apart, and those breasts look higher.

Here are two photos which I took from the following link (which you can definitely check out to find some unveiled beauties J )

collegetimes.com/2014/03/19/the-truth-behind-celebrities-without-photoshop

Pls don´t get me wrong, I love Mariah, but she has her bad pictures, too. 

Can you see the difference? I can. And I want to teach my kids (if I will ever havy any) what real beauty is about, I want to teach them the power a smile can have, but most of all, I want to show them that they can still be in shape and beautiful without giving up all the nice (and tasty) things in life!

So happy belated birthday Marilyn, and thanks for reminding me that beautiful does not equal anorexic!

PS: Want to see how things can really go on if you overdo surgery? Take a look at Donatella Versace. And yes. Versace. With this last comment I wish you all a good night :) xx