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Herfurth: “No adult looks like this”
Actress and director Karoline Herfurth criticizes that pictures in the media and advertising convey an unrealistic body image. She had to experience that painfully herself.
The actress Karoline Herfurth felt under pressure as a teenager because of her appearance. “At twelve I started to hate my body. I looked at my butt in the mirror- the mini was!- and cried out of despair because it did not look as in pictures from the Bravo or any women’s magazines,” said the 40- Years of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. The result: “From 13 to 17 I was anorexic, for half a year I hardly ate anything”.
Herfurth blames highly edited images in the media for such thoughts. These conveyed a false body image and inaccessible ideals of beauty. She herself had the experience that her body was subsequently shrunk by 30 percent on advertising photos for an underwear label in relation to the head. “These are children’s proportions, no grown person looks like this,” said the 40-year-old. But public pictures in particular influenced their own body awareness more than their own environment.
In her current film “Beautiful”, in which she wrote the script and directed, she deals with exactly this pressure, creating the unreachable ideals of beauty.
dpa
Source: Stern
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