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Snowflake wrote: "My point wasn't that I am 'curious' what Jill looks like 'now'...my point was that since Jill is deceptive in how she represents herself, I wondered if she was equally misleading in representing her doggie shirts. For all her talk of growth and self-acceptance and self-love, the pics she uses show me that Jill still can't accept the 'REAL' Jill Tracey.".
And a valid point it is. Another case in point: This photo is the one Jill uses in the "Style" area of her site. Remember, this is the area in which she talks about her fashion sense, her fashion business, the fabulous Jill Tracey Models (pics available), and the fact that BBW can look great before they lose that 50 pounds. Yeah right, feel good about who you are - NOW! And how many years ago was this???
And here she is just six months ago. Now I don't think anyone would use this type of candid shot on a website, and people would certainly understand that. Most of us have pics of ourselves that we toss because of bad angles, lighting....whatever -- we don't like them. But we don't circulate that one great photo from 1994 and say, "This is me".
To be honest, Jill should hire a make-up artist and have them work on THIS face, and snap the photo. Hell, snap 300 photos and use the best one -- but when you're telling plus-sized women to love and embrace themselves as they are, you had better use a light hand on the air-bushing or photoshop. There's a reason they say a picture is worth a thousand words. You can write an inspirational thesis on loving yourself as you are, but when you attach a photo that barely resembles who you are today, the positive message is erased and a far more powerful, negative message replaces it.
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