Calling for Photoshop-free images in teen magazines, a group of teenage girls performed a mock fashion show in front of the “Teen Vogue” headquarters in Times Square Wednesday.
“I’m a ”Teen Vogue“ reader, and I want the magazine to publicly commit to their readers, like ”Seventeen“ did, to never alter the body size or face shape of the girls and models in their magazine and feature diverse beauty in their pages,” said Carina Cruz in a statement.
Cruz, 16, and Emma Stydahar, 17, are part of a group of young women, mostly teens, who started a website geared toward challenging the way females are portrayed in the media.
Their change.org/teenvogue petition has attracted more than 28,000 virtual signatures
“Teen girl-targeting magazines bombard young women with images that have been distorted and digitally altered with programs including Photoshop,” the petition states. “These Photoshopped images are extremely dangerous to girls like us who read them, because they keep telling us: you are not skinny enough, pretty enough, or perfect enough.”
Cruz and Stydahar started the movement after “Seventeen” magazine announced that it will stop altering the bodies and faces of girls featured in its magazine.
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