Have the images of the Victoria's Secret models been digitally altered by whoever originally created this comparison? I've looked at Victoria's Secret catalogs every now and then, and I don't remember ever seeing any models who were as emaciated-looking as that. In fact, there have been some who were surprisingly well-padded--the early Laetitia Casta and the early Miranda Kerr being cases in point. (Don't worry, I don't learn the names of Victoria's Secret models as a matter of course, but I checked out the names of those two several years ago because I thought they were especially attractive. And Laetitia Casta is well-known on other grounds, having gone on to have a minor acting career, including in the recent American movie Arbitrage with Richard Gere.)
Note that, in the Victoria's Secret box, there's already unquestionably some fakery involved, since some of the figures are the same person. Whoever created the box was trying to create the impression that "there are at least seven Victoria's Secret models who are excessively thin"; but he or she was unable to find seven such models, and so had to fake the point by using images of what appear to be no more than three or four different women. If he or she was willing to do that, it makes it all the more likely that he or she would have been willing to falsify the models' proportions as well.
I don't care for any of the Victoria's Secret models as they're pictured here. They're all too thin, their beauty is way too generic for me, and some or all of them seem to have fake breasts. About half the Dove models, on the other hand, look good to me.
The one hesitation I'd have in the above judgment is that, since obviously most people (especially women) get quite a bit fatter as they age, the Victoria's Secret models might be better long-term investments. If they're really as thin as the picture makes them out to be (which I don't think they are), then ten or twenty or thirty years down the road they might be just right. The less heavy Dove models, on the other hand, will probably get fairly gross within a few years, unless they're very, very disciplined about diet and exercise. Actually, they've probably turned gross already, since I think the picture is several years old.
Note that, in the Victoria's Secret box, there's already unquestionably some fakery involved, since some of the figures are the same person. Whoever created the box was trying to create the impression that "there are at least seven Victoria's Secret models who are excessively thin"; but he or she was unable to find seven such models, and so had to fake the point by using images of what appear to be no more than three or four different women. If he or she was willing to do that, it makes it all the more likely that he or she would have been willing to falsify the models' proportions as well.
I don't care for any of the Victoria's Secret models as they're pictured here. They're all too thin, their beauty is way too generic for me, and some or all of them seem to have fake breasts. About half the Dove models, on the other hand, look good to me.
The one hesitation I'd have in the above judgment is that, since obviously most people (especially women) get quite a bit fatter as they age, the Victoria's Secret models might be better long-term investments. If they're really as thin as the picture makes them out to be (which I don't think they are), then ten or twenty or thirty years down the road they might be just right. The less heavy Dove models, on the other hand, will probably get fairly gross within a few years, unless they're very, very disciplined about diet and exercise. Actually, they've probably turned gross already, since I think the picture is several years old.
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