Victoria’s Secret ‘Perfect Body’ ads draw criticism

What does “The Perfect ‘Body” look like? If you believed Victoria’s Secret’s newest ad campaign, it resembles a tall, busty and very slender 20-something model, gorgeous enough to walk down a New York catwalk in nothing but her skivvies.

Personally, I like looking at pretty young women in their underwear.

The ads with the tagline “The Perfect ‘Body,’” which appear in U.K. stores and on the American website, don’t sit well with many who say the company is promoting unhealthy body image standards for women, as well as once again using thin models to set the standard of what a beautiful body looks like or should look like.
 Victoria's Secret Website
(Victoria’s Secret website)

To come to the company’s defense, the slogan is a play on words for their bra line in their “Body” collection (this is why the word is in quotes in the tagline), but it doesn’t make this ad gone very wrong – a right.

It’s true that Victoria’s Secret shows the same thin models in their TV ads, during their highly anticipated annual fashion show and really, everywhere the brand has a presence – so why the uproar now?

It may be that in those instances, this notion of body perfection is only implied, yet in the ads, it’s in our faces. The writing is on the wall, literally.

While the majority of social media users have expressed their disappointment a few have come to the lingerie brand’s defense.

This article from the Toronto Sun and written by – October 30th, 2014 .

Marrying Attractive Young Women

Men who are old but famous and rich can marry anyone they want.

Hilaria Thomas
Hilaria Thomas

The latest is Alec Baldwin.  He is 54 and his new bride is his attractive 28 year old yoga instructor, Hilaria Thomas.

He is not the first star to marry someone half his age or close to that number.  Consider Michael Douglas, age 68.  His wife is Catherine Zeta-Jones, age 42.

This desire to marry attractive younger women is not only those in the entertainment community.  Consider Alan Greenspan born in 1926.  His lovely wife is Andrea Mitchell (American television journalist, anchor, reporter, commentator, for NBC News) born in 1946.

From futurescopes.com

Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch, born 1931, split from his wife Anna after a marriage of 32 years and three children  together.  Barely seventeen days after his divorce, Murdoch tied the knot with the Chinese-born Wendy Deng, born 1968, who had been newly appointed as the Vice President of Murdoch’s Star TV network and is almost 38 years his junior.

Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, on October 20, 1968. This was a second marriage for both and at the time Onassis was almost sixty while Jacqueline was thirty-nine.

My thing is attractive young red-heads.  However, limited funds and loving my wife limits my options. My wife knows this but she will be dark brown until the day she dies.  It’s worth her visit to the hair dresser every six weeks.