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As to whether this is a service to the world...
hmm...the fact that this realistic, and I would argue, very-healthy-looking-44-year-old-child-bearer image (produced to be all about the creation of "the" image), is going to appear in a celebrity mag spread, serves to raise important discussion not just about health and fat, but of the distortion of the public gaze, media intimacy, the power of sexual display, and the slippery-ness of identity.
This is maybe just me, but has anyone else noticed that the closer you are to someone, the harder it is to imagine what they look like in your head? I can conjur a mental image of some co-worker very easily, maybe even draw a decent likeness, but try to sketch out my mom or spouse, its really hard for me. I know them in too many ways other than visual. And then to see them age...Its like they change, but don't, but do,...
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