Have you seen the latest issue of O magazine? The June cover boldy proclaims, "We're Starting a Beauty Revolution!" Rather than buy the magazine, (since it's really not my bag), I went online to see what Oprah's got cooked up. With her new "O Magazine Beauty Revolution", Miss O seems to be taking a page from Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty – she's throwing her many years of frustrating diets out the window in an effort to be gentle and forgiving to herself and accepting of her real body. "I've given up scale-watching—letting a number determine how I see myself and whether I'm worthy of a good day," she writes in her editor's letter. On the website, there's a call to arms for readers to join in the revolution by signing a pledge: "From this day forward, I'm going to focus less on how I look than how I see" and readers can sound off on an online Revolution Message Board as well as pull from "scripts to stop the damage" – tips for how to handle discussions of appearance with other women.
The cause of all this ruckus? Oprah's been spending a lot of time with her newest golden boy, Eckhart Tolle, author of The New Earth. She has connected to her consciousness, realizing she is not her body. "Part of my awakening through the New Earth classes has been to recognize how shallow and small that made me."
While I applaud Oprah for trying to kick the shackles of an impossible-to-attain body image, all this is a little too uber-self-help for me. What say you? Are you hearing the message?
3 comments:
how interesting!
it is very similar to Tyra's So What approach.
Well, we'll see the fruits of this revolution. Personally since i was 13, i've always struggled with body image and it is too easy to say ok, screw that i am fab! I am slowly accepting myself and i think the key is to embrace your body type and try to be healthy.
I completely agree with you. It's so easy to jump on the love-yourself-for-who-you-are bandwagon these days. It's hard to tell what's behind all these initiatives.
On the other hand, maybe we should take this one at face value. Who knows? Regardless, I love this quote: "From this day forward, I'm going to focus less on how I look than how I see."
I don't know...
Oprah goes through this cycle every few years. It goes like this: gain some weight, go on intense diet, lose weight, talk about losing weight on her show, gain some back, then declare that she is all done with this dieting business. Until next time. For a woman who has announced that she is content with her body so many times, she sure goes on a lot of (very public) diets. Not to be a downer, but we'll see if she really means what she says. This time around.
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