Schoon and I watched the first episode of “How to look good naked” with Carson Kressley tonight and the verdict is in… I liked it. It even brought a wee little tear to my eye when he forced her to strip and look at herself in her grundies in the full length mirror. She didn’t OWN a full-length mirror!
Any show that encourages women to feel good about themselves without pushing them towards plastic surgery or weight loss can only be a good thing. The chick that was on it tonight looked positively 10 kilos lighter and 10 years younger and all it took was a haircut, a bra that fitted and some clothes that weren’t sweat pants and an ill-fitting top. She looked positively HOTT at the end. Like a minxy sex-kitten.
I think the most interesting part for me was when Carson revealed about 8 women standing in their underwear and asked her to go and stand next to the one who she thought had the same hips as her. She went and stood next to the second biggest woman, but we viewers playing along at home, we KNEW! Yes, we knew that in actual fact she belonged down the other end of the line with the second smallest chick. SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS FATTER THAN SHE WAS.
And she wasn’t fat you know… she was curvy with a hard-core case of bad dressing.
My brother and I once had a long conversation about body image and how we perceive ourselves in everyday life (to be fair to my brother, he doesn’t usually waffle on with that sort of stuff, it was a long car trip between Munich and Brussels) and we both agreed that we had no idea what we looked like. What we really looked like. That we wished there was some way you could go on to the magical innernet, scan in your photo and it would tell you which celebrity you looked like. Or a photo of someone else you look like.
Just so you knew you know, that you aren’t as ugly and fat as you think you are.
hell yes. I loved this show in the UK format, and loved Carson’s version tonight. I’m horrified by some of the statistics.. do four out of five of us really hate our bodies??
It is sad and scary, more so because I know which side of the statistic I am.
I don’t so much want to look good nekkid as much as I want to look good in my sassy pink bikini. Looking good nekkid is not as difficult as looking good with bikini strings bisecting you at the thickest part of your hips.
I actually wished I had watched this now. I am really struggling with my body image at the moment and most of it was actually set off by seeing myself in a full length mirror at my brother’s girlsfriends place a while back. Yes, it was an 18th birthday party, and yes, I was surrounded by itty bitty size 8’s running around everywhere but still, it gave me a real shock! I hadn’t any idea what I really looked like full length in what I was wearing at the time. Prompted a bit of a wardrobe revisit! The weird thing is that whilst I feel like a jynormeous fat heiffer currently, according to the BMI thingy I’m only a couple of kilos overweight for my height. When my doctor told me that recently it really gave me cause to wonder how much of what was going through my brain about my body was actually legit. Especially when I started looking at women around me and going “well she’s bigger than me but she still looks good!” Yes, I’ve gone from a size 10 to a size 14-16 but the average Australian woman is a size 14. Hmmmm… food for thought Julaberry…
Trinny and Susannah also do a series on how to dress for your shape on cable and I have to say it has changed how I dress and how I feel about myself. I suddenly realised that I was meant to have a bum and boobs and it was Ok to get the girls up and out and be proud. I guess sometimes we forget that women and meant to have all their wobbly bits or they wouldn’t look like women …
I loved it!
I just wished they had made it longer – it felt like there was room in there for more tips and stuff too. Like I want to be the lady in the dress and heels that looks confident, not the slouchy one just getting dressed for comfy work, nor the one dressed to hide themselves.
I play a ‘game’ with The Hun when I think I see someone and ask him if that’s my shape. Of course he may be biased, but every time he has told me that I pick someone completely wrong and much larger than what I actually am. He commented that it is quite worrying the way that women perceive themselves.
I have not seen this version, but the UK version with Gok Wan as host is BRILLIANT!!!