![]() ![]() “I was like.she’s a baby! What does it say about me that I was self-conscious about my baby’s appearance?” But after, she felt a twinge of remorse for editing her baby’s appearance and vowed not to do so again. “I did it because I didn’t want people to think she was sleep-deprived or wonder if she was unhealthy,” she says. #Photo glamour effect skin#Shannon, 31, says she once used a similar app, Perfect365, to smooth out the skin on her then 11-month-old’s face and edit out the dark circles under her baby's eyes for an Instagram post. “ not sure why I do it, really-maybe because the app itself makes it easy to do? So I feel like, Why not do it if it cleans up the ?” “The same way a studio photographer enhances what you look like in a photo, I just touch up areas that would otherwise look unsightly,” she told Glamour. ![]() Jam, a 34-year-old mom of a toddler and a newborn, concedes she has used the “healing brush” on the photo-editing app PicsArt to get rid of “unsightly wounds” like scrapes and scars, although she does it for only special occasions (such as Christmas photos) and draws a sharp distinction between that and toddler torso trimming. The phenomenon of tweaking babies’ photos for the ’gram is not limited to celebrities, though few moms will openly admit that they do so. (Kardashian West has not addressed the claims.) ![]() “I will no longer stand for this bullshit,” she wrote.) That same month Kim Kardashian West was accused of photoshopping an image of her eight-month-old daughter Chicago to smooth out her forehead. (Zolciak-Biermann denied this on Twitter. ![]() In October 2018 Real Housewives alum Kim Zolciak-Biermann was accused of digitally altering an image of her four-year-old daughter Kaia on her Instagram stories, replacing an unretouched photo with a photoshopped one that made her legs and waist look smaller. Stateside, some brands have been swearing off the use of retouching, and celebrities like Jameela Jamil have refused to let their own images be manipulated.īut the antiphotoshopping movement hasn’t stopped countless women from taking a magic wand to their own selfies, or celebrities and bloggers from altering their (in some cases, extremely young) children’s photos. In France the law requires that brands disclose retouching and altering. Retouched and photoshopped images of young women in particular have become ubiquitous in celebrity culture, even though research has linked unrealistic depictions of the female body to an increased prevalence of eating disorders. “It sends a message you’re not good enough the way you are.” “Knowing that your mom made your belly look smaller because she didn’t like it for whatever reason, then what does it tell the kid about himself?” she says. Regardless, Weinstein believes the practice can be detrimental to children’s mental health, particularly if they have low self-esteem or are at risk of developing an eating disorder. "Sometimes it’s just like, ‘Hey, I want to look good if he looks at it many years from now.’ But sometimes it’s really pathological with the parent themselves.” She recalls one case in which a mother with an eating disorder asked her child’s school photographer to reduce the size of her 10-year-old son's stomach in photos. “There are usually two types of reasons for this" she says. She sees a difference between parents who opt to remove blemishes or scars for Picture Day and parents with more customized requests. (Lifetouch did not respond to Glamour’s requests for comment.)īut Weinstein notes that in her practice she has worked with many parents who have requested that school-photo companies slim down their child’s neck, arms, stomach, or even breasts. About 10 to 13 percent of parents of kindergartners through eighth-graders in northern California opt for the basic retouching package, and even fewer choose the premium tier service, according to a manager of Lifetouch who was interviewed by the Contra Costa Times. Not all parents, or even most, choose to get their children’s photos retouched. Such subtle tweaks are so in demand that companies now offer “retouching” packages national school photo service Lifetouch allows parents to opt for basic retouching (which will remove blemishes), premium retouching (to whiten teeth and eliminate flyaway hairs), or custom retouching, which lets parents write in a specific request, according to information that Lifetouch provided to one parent Glamour spoke to. ![]()
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