Bodies of 2013

The fact that Wesley Morris uses the story of his sick mother to intensify this article is what truly kept me reading. From personal experience of having a sick mom, I too can identify with how he was feeling, seeing and accepting the changes that are happening in a negative light, and then looking at the world we live in only to realize that people in the public eye are overly concerned with self image. One thing to remember is that taking care of your body and your health is one thing, but to go to extreme lengths to lose weight or get your picture on the cover of the magazine because you have the "ideal body" is absolutely ridiculous. In todays world it is all about what celebrities are doing and wearing, saying, or singing. Morris was 100% on point when he talks about all of the nudity in pop-culture in 2013, it reoccurred so many times that watching certain music videos felt uncomfortable. The confusing part of the celebrity nudity is that Miley Cyrus hangs nude on a "wrecking ball" and gets majorly criticized, the thing that many people don't know is that Miley later stated that her nudity had a deeper  meaning than just showing off her self confidence. http://tenorbuds.tumblr.com/image/60978290832

However, when a respected artist such as Beyonce, appears naked, or close to it, she is worshiped because she is an older woman, new mother, and wife to famous rapper Jay-Z, who can do whatever she wants because "she's still got it"…but what does that mean? What does she still have? If its self confidence, well many other women could use that same excuse but be scrutinized instead of complimented. I think that Katy Perry put it simply when she talked about the whole idea of nudity is becoming too common, and as she said that she is guilty of showing her goods, she knows that showing her body off all the time is something that just isn't necessary, because eventually, people will stop caring. The issue with magazine and movies is they compose this unrealistic "person" that everyone is trying to look identical to, for instance the 5'8'', 110 pound model who has perfect hair, perfect skin, and not one flaw. That is impossible, no one looks like that, not even the girls who are on the covers of those magazines, with all of the technology today half of the women on the cover of magazines are just a collection of multiple women's faces formed to make the perfect cover girl. http://on.aol.com/video/models-on-magazine-covers--a-shocking-photoshop-transformation-518027543