"You Think I'm Pretty Without Any Make-up On..."

[psalm_onethirtyone]

Soooo at my one client's house the t.v. was on, and there was an ad going for some weight-loss programme. It started out fairly inoffensively: middle-aged, stocky woman going "yay now I am not quite as heavy I can do more!" which is a reasonable approach, really; and the fact that she wasn't skinny made it seem much more like a "I'm just wanting to be healthier, this isn't about the beauty standard" kind of thing. So far so good.

And then the last line of the commercial is her saying "Thank you [name of product] for letting me be pretty one last time".

What. the actual fuck.

So yeah, I thought you all might like to know what's wrong with the world.

Comments

[shawk.livejournal.com]

I do find it extra-strange, though, since I'm pretty sure she has spoken about the pressures to be even thinner when she was in Star Wars and how insane that wa (especially for the metal bikini/Jabba the Hut scene), so she might have spoken more carefully. Then again, she doesn't seem to be one who is big on carefully screening her words.