Where are they? The larger models? The shorter models? The models with a disability? The older models?

Famous Nude Paintings Get Photoshopped To Fit Today's Beauty Standards



Models of Diversity
The women plastered around today's billboards and magazine ads adhere to a very particular standard of beauty, one that, in real life, is nearly impossible to achieve. From size 0 waists to flawless complexion, contemporary "ideal" women resemble plastic mannequins more than the ladies you'd encounter, you know, in real life. Here to drive the point home is Lauren Wade , with the help of some of art history's most beloved nudes. Wade, a senior photo editor for TakePart , wondered what would happen if the nude muses of artists like Titian and Raphael were exposed to the pressures of women today. Like many a fashion model before them, these painted nudes get the photoshop treatment, transforming them from "Odalesque" to modelesque.


World's most beautiful girl Kristina Pimenova's mother defends pictures
Maureen Corrigan. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. I hope they're all having a good laugh over that obit of McCullough that ran in The Australian newspaper after her death on Jan. Thirty-million books sold worldwide, an early career as a neurophysiologist at Yale and, yet, at the top of that obit, McCullough is remembered, first and foremost, for being "plain of feature and certainly overweight. What a timely moment for Amanda Filipacchi's new comic novel to appear.

The mother of a child supermodel dubbed 'the most beautiful girl in the world' has attacked 'paedophiles' who say she is sexualising her daughter by posting provocative pictures of her. Kristina Pimenova is just nine years old but has become a worldwide sensation after pictures of her triggered a storm of criticism on Facebook and Instagram. Today her mother Glikeriya Pimenova, who runs the social media accounts and posted the pictures, hit back in an exclusive interview with MailOnline, saying: 'I do not accept those accusations about sexualisation of my child. I have never asked her to take this or that pose, and in fact I must say she does not especially like it when I am photographing her, so I do it quickly and when she doesn't notice.