Keira Knightley
Due to my love of actress Keira Knightley, I knew that she had spoken out about issues with the body before, as she's against the use of photoshop when photographers take photos of her, as she wants her body to be seen as it is and not changed to please others.
Keira Knightley made a stand against the use of photoshop, saying it's turning women's bodies into a 'battleground' and it encourages a damaging attitude towards body image in the media.
‘I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters. And that [shoot] was one of the ones where I said: ‘OK, I’m fine doing the topless shot so long as you don’t make them any bigger or retouch.’ Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.”
These articles are really relevant to the messages that Alice and I want to work with in our project, thinking about how women's bodies are displayed for the pleasure of others, and it's all about looking beautiful for the public eye, not about being comfortable in your own skin. By a famous actress such as Keira Knightley speaking out about these issues, it brings more attention towards them in the media, making it a real issue.
I think it's a really positive thing that more and more famous women are coming forward and challenging these ideals that women should fit a perfect mould for the magazines and in order to be in the public eye. It's influential to younger generations of women to feel as though they don't have to fit into these moulds, and to actually have some good role models to look up to.
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion-blog/2014/nov/07/keira-knightley-on-going-topless-in-protest-at-the-use-of-womens-bodies-as-a-battleground
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2821744/Keira-Knightley-Women-s-bodies-battleground-Actress-speaks-body-image-posing-topless-magazine-shoot.html
Emily Bador
Emily Bador is a model who is used for a lot of popular clothing companies. Recently she began using her instagram as a platform to talk about body standards for women and how we should love ourselves.
Emily posted some pictures of how she was beginning to become comfortable in her own skin, and she got a lot of hate and people said she didn't look how she usually does in her modeling photos. This prompted her to make a lot of posts about body image and informing people that she is comfortable in her own skin and others should be too.
I think Emily Bador is a really good advocate for self love and the female body in its true form. She has talked a lot before about the pressures of being a model and the pressures to look perfect and keep a toned body all the times just because others will constantly be looking at her. It's interesting that she's expected to keep a perfect toned body, but that was making her unhappy and she didn't feel comfortable in her own skin, even though a lot of females would be longing to look like her.
I think it's really admirable for her to use her personal instagram platform to bring awareness to this idea of the female form having to be perfect, and for models and women in general to have to look certain way.
It's interesting that when she began posting natural photos of herself she got a lot of hate for the way she looked, but that's her natural body that she feels comfortable in.
These two pieces of research are really beneficial to our ideas and how we will progress with our piece. We can look at them for inspiration within our personal lives but also for our project, as they are women making their voices heard.
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