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Warning sticker calls out BS body standards in women’s magazines

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Are you beach body ready? Is your thigh gap showing? Are your collarbones so prominent you can stack coins on them? Can you reach round your back and touch your bellybutton?

You may have noticed there’s a lot of BS around being a woman and having a body.

Thankfully, we haven’t all lost our minds in the pursuit of mass media acceptable perfection, which this warning sticker so kindly reminds us.

MORE: Forget the thigh gap, there’s now a new part of your body to loathe and abhor

Spotted by Redditor, attorney_steve, attached to the front of a weekly gossip mag in his local doctor’s surgery, the disclaimer reads, ‘This magazine contains unrealistic body images that have been digitally modified. Please do not compare yourself to these unrealistic images.’

Sure, we’re familiar with the powers of Photoshop by now, but this everyday act of rebellion comes… Read the full story


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