Total props to Keira Knightley!!

I am thoroughly impressed with Keira Knightly's refusal to have her body image digitally enhanced!! THANK YOU and may I say "Finally"?? Props to her for being proud of her body the way it is, for not giving into pressure to be sexy and 'perfect', and I hope this starts a new trend of acceptance for girls and women everywhere.

I'm tired of being told by the media that our bodies, and hence ourselves, are never good enough because we're not airbrushed in real life. I'm tired of looking at twigs on magazine covers. Please just let us be healthy and happy! Life is hard enough as it is without being told girls have to look and act like sex objects to be accepted.

Thank you Keira Knightley!



I do have to say that I'm getting annoyed with the obsession Hollywood has with being perfect. Even as glamourous and Knightley is by herself, she still isn't "good enough" to stand on her own on her movie cover. Sure, I'm an artist and I understand about colour and sharpness, contrast and all that good jazz, but look at what they're doing-- they totally gave her a tummy tuck, changed her facial features to look more voluptuous, increased her bust from a size A to a size C, and beautified her hair. (Though I have to laugh, and I would probably do this too if I were an advertising designer, but they also took out the shadow underneath her armpit to avoid making it look like she hadn't shaved. That I find funny :) .)

I wish Hollywood would quit selling sex and start worrying about genius in their films instead. I cannot count the number of times I've left a movie feeling disgusted at the lack of imagination, and their total dependence on using sex allure as a crutch. Get a life, Hollywood, and quit telling us how to glamourously live ours.