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Behind The Glam

September 29, 2008 by Adria Ali Leave a Comment

 

     Hollywood has a way of making everyone look beautiful.  So, when Jamie Lee Curtis come up with a brilliant idea for an article; the public was shocked and amazed!  Look at this article which was written a while back.  It shows Curtis in her underwear and bra before a photo shoot.  This took A LOT guts!  She should be applauded for showing America what a “real” movie star looks like BEFORE the Glam.

 

Before The Glam

After The 3 Hour Hair and Makeup

JAMIE LEE CURTIS called more magazine a few months ago. She had an idea for a story and photo shoot. The result is in the issue that hits newsstands today. The actress is photographed in her underwear as she looks in the privacy of her own bedroom, without benefit of stylists, makeup or flattering camera angles.

Curtis, famously fit in movies such as “Perfect” and “True Lies,” looks like what she is: a 43-year-old mother of two. Squishy in the middle. Chunky in the thighs. Flabby in the back. Thick at the knees and ankles.

On the next page of the magazine is another photograph. It’s Glam Jamie, as Curtis calls her gussied-up self. She’s gorgeous in a sleek black dress — carefully chosen to elongate and slim her torso — and sling-back heels with ankle ties. The magazine reveals, at Curtis’s request, that the transformation took 13 people and three hours.

Obviously, it is no great revelation that movie and television stars hide their physical flaws from the public, that the perfection we see on film is a fantasy created through lighting, makeup, clever camera angles and gauzy lenses.

Yet Curtis’s true-life photograph has created the loudest press buzz since the magazine began publishing four years ago. The story has been picked up everywhere from Liz Smith’s gossip column and the “Today” show to MSNBC’s “Nachman,” CNN Headline News, the London Daily Telegraph and USA Today.

Why?

Because in 2002, more than three decades into the women’s movement, it is still a radical act for a woman to accept her body as it is.

“We knew the article was important,” said Susan Crandall, editor-in-chief of the magazine, targeted to women in their 40s and 50s. “But we didn’t know how huge it would be. Even a 23-year-old assistant at the ‘Today’ show, after we were on last week, said that the article made her feel so much better about her body.”

‘Today’ interviewer Campbell Brown seemed aghast at Curtis’ boldness, as if being photographed as she really looks is more shocking than being photographed topless (as Curtis was in “Trading Places”).

“There is no way I would sit down for a magazine photo shoot with no makeup,

no control tops, no wonder bra,” Brown said to the actress. “Were you scared at all?”

“What I’m scared of is that that’s what women have become accustomed to needing to feel good about themselves,” Curtis replied. “And show business and media and magazines don’t help by promoting these images of women that are completely airbrushed, that are completely altered, to then give you, the unsuspecting buyer, this fake sense of that that’s what people are supposed to look like.”

Curtis has just written her fifth children’s book, “I’m Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem,” which is what prompted the idea for the photo.

“I felt that if I’m going to try to promote something where I’m trying to explain self-esteem to children, I needed to live it,” she said on the “Today” show. “And for me to live it means I need to be the person I look at every morning when I wake up and stand in the mirror, you know, kind of as God intended me to look.”

The impossible ideal of the perfect body — what we ought to look like — has been etched in our brains since our first Barbie. One photo won’t change that. But it is a reminder of where the revolution fell short. As we were getting the world to accept us for who we are, we never figured out how to accept ourselves (source).

  

     To be as you are, can be a scary ordeal.  It takes a lot of guts and self assurance to let go of the myth and look past the lenses and the makeup.  Not many people in show business would have the courage Jamie Lee has shown.   She is not only a great actress, she is also a great role model for women of all ages! 

Adria Ali

    

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About Adria Ali

I am the author of this web page and I have been a personal trainer for over 13 years. I currently hold a Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology (exercise science), as well as all of the certifications from National Academy of Sports Medicine. I also have a background in sports training as well as internships in physical therapy and Occupational Therapy. I got into personal training to help people like my mom who struggled with her weight her whole life.


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