Unit 4D, Vocabulary and Speaking Exercise 2B, Page 64 Altered Images look at the posters on your bedroom wall.0:00
Adam Levine has got great skin, hasn't he?0:31
Jennifer Lawrence has got a fantastic figure, right?0:36
The truth is, no, they haven't.0:40
At least not all the time.0:43
Film stars, pop stars and models have bad days too.0:46
Just like everyone else.0:50
They get spots and blemishes every now and then, and they put on a few extra pounds from time to time, too.0:52
So how come we never see those photos?0:59
Well, to start with, advertisers think that we don't want to see pictures of people looking less than perfect.1:02
What's more, the stars themselves pay their publicists lots of money to make sure their pictures are perfect every time.1:10
This means that every photo we see on the COVID of a glossy magazine has been retouched.1:18
Stomachs are flatter, legs are longer, lips are fuller, and waists are slimmer.1:24
Although we know this, we still can't help comparing ourselves to these unreal images and feeling unhappy about the way we look.1:30
What we should do is say, wow, this photo is really phony.1:38
And laugh at the fake beauty we see in media images.1:44
Or better still, ignore them altogether.1:48
No one looks perfect 100% of the time, and we shouldn't let the media influence how we feel about ourselves.1:51
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