"I felt I looked more beautiful than I've ever felt in
my life, and I felt like it looked like me."
Those were the words of actress Amy Schumer upon seeing the
finished result of her photo shoot for the newly revamped Pirelli calendar
which has taken a sharp u turn from its usual ostentatious sexuality and
scantily clad supermodels shot in tropical climates to focus on women’s
strengths and achievements in a stunning set of images by Annie Leibowitz.
And that statement completely sums up what the photographer
was attempting to achieve with her concept.
“The whole idea was not to have any pretense in these
pictures, and to be straightforward and show these women exactly, like who they
are “she said in a behind the scenes film of the making of the calendar.
And show them exactly as they are she has, shot in black and
white, all but two of the shots are of women
celebrating their accomplishments fully clothed and those of Amy and Serena Williams
are shot in such a way that the only thing the picture is revealing is their
natural beauty and strong personalities.
Which is an amazing thing to project in this day and age of photoshopping,
filters and airbrushing out of any imperfections.
So quite why despite
the fact that the image of Amy is truly striking in its simplicity and let’s
hope truthful depiction of what a woman’s body looks like, some felt the need
to take to social media to gripe that she had a little of something else that Pirelli
is famous for around her belly area makes me so angry.
And the same goes for the story of the female commuters in London
having cards shoved into their hands by a sad excuse for an organization
calling themselves overweight hater’s ltd.
You’re fat stated one side of this horrendous claptrap and
upon turning it over it became even more despicable with slurs on their
supposed “greed” and how they were to blame for half the world being starving
because of all the food they consume.
I can only imagine the idiots giving out this spiteful
material think they’re being helpful in a twisted “tough love “kind of way.
However I’ve got news for you, take it from someone who has
been up and down the weight loss and dress size chart several times over the
decades.
If you already think you’re hideous someone else confirming
it won’t miraculously lead to a huge moment of epiphany, in fact it’s more
likely to send you on yet another downward spiral with a multi packet of crisps
and a big bottle of wine to help you on your way.
Some people are happy and confident in themselves no matter
what imperfections others might try to foist upon them as having and some need
a little encouragement to like who they see in the mirror every day.
If anyone came up to these idiots or a member of their
family and made slurs on their person based solely on a first glance I’m sure
they’d be the first to complain so why is it ok for them to do it to a complete
stranger .
In my experience, people who exhibit this sort of
controlling, spiteful nature are more often than not doing it to compensate for
their own insecurities.
So I put it to you, Overweight haters, that while you think
you’re being big and clever by giving out these cards, is what you’re actually
really doing some elaborate cover up of the fact that the ugly human being as
described on the end of this hateful piece of rubbish, not in fact the person on
the receiving end but the one that’s giving it out in the first place?
