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Media aghast at what a 43-year-old mom looks like

Some grumpy critics are grousing and others are cheering Jamie Lee Curtis for her honesty. The shocking, amazing she did?

She posed for a photo without makeup:

"The impossible ideal of the perfect body -- what we ought to look like -- has been etched in our brains since our first Barbie. One photo won't change that. But it is a reminder of where the revolution fell short. As we were getting the world to accept us for who we are, we never figured out how to accept ourselves."

originally posted by Chris

Posted by Adam on August 31, 2002 3:38 PM |

Comments

Well, phrased like that...goodness, the whole thing is sort of goofy, now isn't it? I definitely see a humorous side to this story. But still...



We women have been raised by a media which coddled us with images of perfection from a very young age. Fashion magazines promoted (and of course, still do) the value of altering one's self to become the facsimile of what we see on the glossy pages before us. To dream the impossible dream...



So, is it any wonder that a populace of brainwashed chicks should look upon Jamie Lee Curtis' action as shocking or brilliant or brave? I think it's a good thing we do. It suggests there's reason for hope - we're not completely indoctrinated by Madison Avenue advertising.

Posted by: Lisa English | September 2, 2002 3:08 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Jamie Lee Curtis didn't really have a child, did she?



I thought that she was incapable of having a child, because of her unique sex organs situation.

Posted by: keg | September 4, 2002 11:08 AM

my husband always says the same thing, but I think the old story that Jamie Lee is a hermaphrodite is pretty much bunk. He loves to bring it up, though, whenever one of those phone commercials comes on.

Posted by: Laurie | September 4, 2002 11:37 AM

That grousing Boston Herald columnist has issues. (Look her up on Google's image search.)



Jamie Lee's husband is a very lucky man.

Posted by: Dominik | September 4, 2002 5:09 PM

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