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An actress with flaws? Inconceivable! Until now. Tired of the illusion of perfection perpetuated by the Hollywood image machine, Jamie Lee Curtis showed the world what she was REALLY made of. |
In a recent issue of More Magazine, actress Jamie Lee Curtis allowed herself to be photographed without makeup or retouching after the fact. In a two piece athletic outfit, Curtis looks less like the flawless actress and more like what she really is: an aging woman, with a flabby stomach and thighs, and wrinkles right where you would expect them to be.
There has been an outpouring of support for Curtis' photo spread. A collective cry of "Finally!" has erupted from women all over the country. Is it deserved? Sure. Is it going to change anything? Not likely.
Don't get me wrong, I think it was brave of Curtis to put her body, her REAL body in the spotlight. All of us know that the images we see in the magazines are the product of digital imaging companies, creative lighting, and Maybelline. But few of us have ever been able to lift the curtain and see what these icons REALLY look like.
But as brave as it was, don't expect too many celebrities to follow suit. And don't expect the American public to ask for more. Seeing Jamie's bumps and rolls was enlightening and uplifting, but the fact of the matter is, most Americans want the illusion. We want to believe that level of perfection is possible. We want to believe that if we just work hard enough, we will look like Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, or Britney Spears. If we were to wake up and realize that these are truly impossible goals, then we would have to focus our attention onto issues that REALLY matter, and, frankly, that would be too much work for most American women. Better to remain in our places, killing ourselves to maintain an absurd level of physical beauty, than to let ourselves be who we ARE. Better to compete with fictional women on celluloid than to come together and work to improve our reality.
Kudos to Curtis for taking a step in the right direction. But until this sort of honesty becomes the rule, not the exception, I am not going to celebrate too loudly.
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