Buy Walking VideosPostSecret: Before
This postcard from PostSecret shocked me.
It reads:
I think she looked more beautiful before.
The reason this postcard shocked me is because I have seen that woman a hundred times before. She is in an ad for Hydroxycut diet pills in the back of every magazine I’ve read over the last few months. When I was looking for a good photo to use for visualizing myself at the end of my weight loss journey, I actually considered using this one.
I can’t say that I think she looked more beautiful in the before photo. I think both snapshots have been photoshopped beyond recognition. It’s one of the reasons I chose not to use the after photo for my own visualization. It didn’t look real.
As far as I think I’ve come with fat acceptance, I can’t look at the before photo and think she looked better that way. I wonder if I every will…
PostSecret‘s beneficiary is the National Hopeline Network. It is a 24-hour hotline (1 (800) SUICIDE) for anyone who is thinking about suicide or knows someone who is considering it.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Thank you! “photoshopped beyond recognition” – that’s what has always been bothering me about those before/after pics.
April 6th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Just a passing thought: If every magazine you’ve been reading for the last few months has this photoshopped, ridiculously unreal ad for hydroxycut, you may want to consider changing your reading material.