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Recently, the #Passerby lens Yang Mi's figure #topic is on fire.
At the event site, Yang Mi wore a short skirt of Barbie powder, with a slender figure and slender legs. Fans shouted "so beautiful".
However, some people in the comment area still pointed to Yang Mi's figure, saying that her calves were turned out, too thin and looked scary.
Now I dislike Yang Mi for being thin, but when she wasn't so thin before, she was still disgusted with "thick arms" and "worshipping meat on her arms".
The deformed aesthetics of the entertainment industry can be seen from this.
Female celebrities not only have full breasts, but also cannot sag; The body is slender, but it cannot be skinny; The legs are slender and have to be straight; There can't be a trace of fat on the waist, and the buttocks have to be quite upturned.
If any part of the body is not perfect, it seems to become their sin, and in an instant, it will attract bad comments from all directions.
This kind of arbitrary judgment on other people's body qualities, known as "body shame", has swept the world since the beginning of the entertainment industry, making countless people miserable.
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In addition to Yang Mi, Yang Zi, Liu Yifei and many other actresses have suffered from "body humiliation".
Recently, Yang Zi's promotional video for a sunscreen product was launched, but it received a bad review.
Everyone not only complained about clothing and makeup, but also showed no mercy to Yang Zi's figure, such as the shoulders look strong, the back has fat, and the proportion of the body is five or five.
This is not the first time Yang Zi has been ridiculed for his figure. At last year's New Year's Eve party, Yang Zi wore a pink princess dress, which looked elegant and cute in the retouched pictures.
However, in the live broadcast of the party, Yang Zi's arms and waist looked relatively thick, his shoulders were a little thicker, and the whole person was fatter than on the retouched picture.
As a result, many people shouted to her to "pay attention to body management", and said that she was a female star living in refined pictures.
In the TV series "Please Advise the Rest of Your Life", there is a plot where Yang Zi wears pajamas to get takeaway.
At that time, because Yang Zi looked round, thick legs and not so straight, there were many barrages that ignored Yang Zi's acting skills and only cared about spraying her for "too negligent in body management".
Such evaluations seem to put the importance of the body above the actor's acting skills, once there is a short body, no matter how good the acting skills are, it is useless.
Liu Yifei, the "fairy sister" who is 85 flowers with Yang Mi, although she has a recognized "divine appearance", it is difficult to escape the humiliation of her figure.
In the TV series "Go to a Place with Wind", Liu Yifei's appearance is as impeccable as ever.
But in some angles, Liu Yifei's figure looks a little strong, and he is ruthlessly evaluated as "so fat".
Especially the following angle, Liu Yifei was chased to spray "bucket waist" and "elephant legs".
Liu Yifei has experienced a lot of similar incidents. When participating in the Macao International Film Festival, Liu Yifei wore a blue bandeau skirt, with a fairy air, but was ridiculed for her thick waist, breasts, and even "fat oil".
Some people seem to not see Liu Yifei's beauty, but use an eightfold mirror to stare at the imperfections in her figure.
But who is truly perfect?
Guan Xiaotong's legs are straight and slender, and she is very famous in the entertainment industry, so few people laugh at her legs.
However, if you want to pick on the figure of the actress, you can always find the angle, such as her "tiger back bear waist" and "thick arms".
On a red carpet last year, Guan Xiaotong wore a waistless outfit, and it looked like there was a circle of fat around her waist, and she was immediately ridiculed.
This deformed atmosphere of body humiliation not only traps the active female stars in the circle, but even the internationally renowned Gong Li is not spared.
In 2020, some media photographed Gong Li wearing a pink floral dress shopping with her husband.
The happiness and harmony between the husband and wife overflowed the screen, but the media focused on her figure, even if "happy" should be added to "fat".
Some media also specially accompanied photos of Gong Li being strangled by her skirt with flesh behind her back as evidence of "fat".
What is even more suffocating is that the humiliation of the body actually affects the child.
Li Xiang's daughter Wang Shiling is fat and cute in "Where Is Dad Going". However, fat has since become her label.
Last year, 12-year-old Wang Shiling posted photos online of herself wearing a denim jacket and short skirt, looking youthful and energetic.
It is said that with her super self-discipline and persistence, she lost 20 pounds in 2 months. This kind of perseverance is even ashamed of many adults.
But some evaluations are chilling, they ignore Wang Shiling's efforts and continue to spray her fat, as if she is not thin to the bones.
This kind of body humiliation is also everywhere in offline life, such as "the weight is not more than a hundred, either flat chest or short", "you are good at everything, but the chest is a little flat", "are so fat, it's good to eat".
No matter how strong the work ability, how high the achievements, and how hard the girls work, as long as the body is not perfect, they have to be examined, picked, and wantonly evaluated.
The back should be thin, the chest should be large, the waist should be thin, the crotch should be wide, the hips should be upturned, the legs should be long and straight...
It seems that all girls' bodies should fit tightly into this standard box, and if something does not match, others can condescendingly accuse her.
This deformed aesthetic forces girls to constantly pursue a perfect body that does not exist, and even do many strange things.
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In order to lose weight, Yang Zi did not eat every day, and she ate some yogurt and cherries when she was really hungry.
Although Yang Zi lost 10 pounds a week, his body was weak, he didn't even have the strength to say the lines, and finally went into shock on the set.
When she starred in "A Thousand Mountains and Twilight Snow", Ying'er weighed 130 pounds and was known as the "fattest heroine" in history.
The overwhelming ridicule deeply stimulated Ying'er, and she began to skip meals, only eating grapefruit or an old godmother every day, and starved herself thin.
Today, Ying'er does have a thin waist and slender calves, but the whole person looks very haggard, and there are rows of clear bones protruding under her collarbone.
During the filming of "Yanxi Raiders", Wu Jinyan lost weight to 74 pounds, allowing himself to remain slender after wearing layers of ancient costume robes.
But after changing into modern clothes, everyone found that she was completely thin into a paper person, and many netizens began to say that she was "too thin to be beautiful".
What's more outrageous is that when walking the red carpet once, she waved her hands to greet everyone enthusiastically, but she didn't expect that the ring on her hand suddenly flew out.
It's because she's so thin that she can't even wear the ring.
In addition to Wu Jinyan, Zhang Tianai is also scaryly thin. In "Sister Lang 3", as soon as Zhang Tianai appeared, many sisters called out "so thin".
Zhang Tianai is indeed the thinnest of all her sisters. Although she lost her right shoulders, when she leaned over, her shoulder blades would bulge strangely, and she felt that the bones were about to penetrate her skin.
In the lens that will widen people, Zhang Tianai is so thin, you can imagine that Zhang Tianai is already skinny in real life.
Even so, she went on a strict diet, eating boiled eggs and raw cucumbers, and occasionally eating a bite of rice.
Being sprayed fat can lose weight, but what should I do if I have shoulders, no crotch, and a deflated butt? Female celebrities have also come up with countless tricks for this.
Ju Jingyi's shoulders are relatively narrow, and her head appears to be a little big. During one event, her shoulders suddenly widened, making people shout magic.
It turned out that she put shoulder pads on her shoulders, which made her shoulders wider and looked like she had right-angled shoulders.
Once on the red carpet, the fast girl Huang Ying appeared beautifully in a green slip dress, but after returning home, she took out a cushion from her skirt.
It turned out that because her crotch was relatively narrow, she could only wear a fake crotch to highlight her waist.
Although Yang Mi's chest is full, his buttocks are somewhat flat. For this, she had to put on a "fake butt" to make her butt look a little more upturned.
However, in the live broadcast, Yang Mi's butt is lower than the normal position, and the shape is square, which is seen as a "fake butt" at a glance. As a result, she was again subjected to overwhelming ridicule.
Using these props to modify the figure is indeed fake, but at least it will not harm the body. Others are even more crazy, not hesitating to use knives on themselves, and pay a heavy price.
In order to make the breasts fuller, the eldest lady of the Hong Kong textile giant "Baoshi Dragon", Robier, went to South Korea for liposuction and breast augmentation.
Who knows, there was an accident during the operation, and Robel died after being rescued ineffectively. The son, who just turned 7 years old, has since lost his mother.
Many people want to have the same sexy big ass as Kim Kardashian, so they have undergone plastic surgery and injected their own fat into the buttocks.
(Kim Kardashian)
However, they ignore the dangers of this operation, which will not only cause uneven buttocks, scarring, but also chronic heart disease, sudden death and other sequelae.
Model Jocelyn Carno lost her life to this operation, and 1-2 out of every 6,000 surgeries die of complications.
(Model Jocelyn Carno)
In order to pursue the so-called perfect body, actresses paid the price of hunger, health, disguise, and even their lives, is it really worth it?
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In order to stop the deformed aesthetic and put an end to body shaming, we can start from 3 aspects.
First, change the direction of propaganda and do not take the figure as the focus of propaganda.
In daily promotion, many teams will put the entry of "actress name + body part" on the top of the hot search, with a retouched picture that highlights the good figure.
In fact, this is artificially guiding the public's attention to the actress from her own acting skills, singing skills and other professional skills to her figure.
However, no one's figure is perfect. Since the public has paid attention to the good side of the actress, it is very likely to find fault with the imperfections.
Therefore, instead of handing knives into others' hands, the propaganda team should weaken the propaganda about the figure.
In the same way, journalists should also reduce the number of press releases that inventory the body of actresses, and not win or lose based on body shape, in order to curb the unhealthy trend of "body shaming".
Second, reduce the content of public opinion about the perfect body
What is the perfect body? There is actually no official conclusion, but new standards are constantly being reinvented online.
For example, touching the belly button with the backhand, putting coins on the collarbone, A4 waist, comic waist, etc., will cause a hot discussion of the female figure on the whole network every time.
Unfortunately, many actresses do not realize that this is creating body anxiety, but instead show off their photos to show off their good figure.
However, it is these blind followers that engrave these outrageous body standards in the hearts of the public, and then form an airtight cage, so that actresses lose their body freedom.
Therefore, we do not have to put the perfect body standard on ourselves, nor do we have to spread it further. When everyone no longer cares about the so-called perfect body, I believe that the phenomenon of "body shaming" will be reduced accordingly.
Third, change the concept and present a pluralistic aesthetic
In order not to be trapped by a unified body aesthetic, we need to dare to show beauty that is different from traditional impressions, and widely promote the concept of multiple aesthetics.
Fortunately, someone has already taken this step.
In 2021, in the reality show "Promising Me", Yang Tianzhen invited 27 plus-size girls to compete for the position of brand partner.
These girls come from all walks of life and are all chubby. But they did not cater to traditional aesthetics and desperately lose weight, but insisted on themselves and bravely showed their beauty.
These girls show the public that there is more than one kind of beauty, and that what a woman looks like should not be defined.
Everyone is an individual. To whomever we are, we are not qualified to objectify it, measure it with a ruler, and humiliate what does not conform.
At the same time, we should also respect and accept ourselves, manage our bodies according to our own hearts, and not feel sorry for ourselves in the fingers of others.
As actress Emma Watson said, "I don't have beautiful teeth and I'm not a skinny girl." But I want to be someone who loves himself regardless of body shape, still feels great about himself, and doesn't change himself at will. ”
It is believed that with the joint efforts of individuals and society, one day, this deformed aesthetic wind will stop, and the humiliation of the body will disappear forever.
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【Author|Water Long Flow】
【Editor|Zhiyu】