Inevitably 98% of the covers will be trumpeting the good news (for it is) of some vaguely public figure, telling us how she is "finally" happy with her body. How she has FINALLY got the body she "WANTED." How she feels so pleased about it she is taking off her clothes and being photographed under strict lighting conditions and then having the life airbrushed out of her. But this is it: this is finally, unequivocally and in no uncertain terms the point at which she has the body she wants. Until the next photo shoot.
and then we have the Demi Moore article in the Daily Mail
Demi Moore, 47: 'After years of trying to dominate it, I've finally got the body I've always wanted
Well Demi Moore looks damn good for a 48 year old mother of 4.Of course with a rumored $200,000 in surgery, (body only, not her face) she should!
but why does she have this need to constantly be showing it all offNow back to Ms R
Seriously what is there to admire about the woman who does this? What is there to emulate? And what is empowering? It used to be that a woman's power lay in not giving it all away - verbally and visually. In that lay the mystery, the challenge and the knowledge. It still does.
Which brings us to the May edition of Vanity Fair with Grace Kelly's Forever Look. In reading about Grace Kelly (who most definitely had the goods without any help from the medical profession) you never get the feeling that she had any compulsion show it all off. She had an exciting life, married well, had 3 kids and allowed herself to age naturally without the obsession to constantly look like a 20 year old.
Grace Kelly's legacy is to have become The Icon of Mid-Century film and fashion.
Demi Moore, in spite of the body, the younger man and the twittering will leave no legacy.
