Do we gotta have Faith?
Seen this?
It's Faith Hill, 41, mom of three, on the cover of Shape. This past January, she had surgery on her knee, keeping her from working out for six months. Now, thanks to daily four-mile elliptical sessions, light weights, crunches, push-ups, and thrice-weekly Pilates classes, she is ripped and chiseled and all sorts of MILF. She's proud of her bod and is calling the magazine cover "my 41st birthday present to myself."
Honestly, that workout routine sounds killer and no matter what she looks like, she should be shout-it-from-the-hilltops proud of all her accomplishments. But I just can't help think of this.
Am I being anti-feminist? Drinking the Hatorade? Just plain mean? Am I so jaded that I have less than zero doubt those bikini abs were airbrushed in?
Comments
Jaded, maybe. But not without cause.
I hate that they do this. Faith Hill is already so beautiful. This really falls into the category of "fixing what ain't broke" - and doing a crappy job of it. She looks better in the before picture.
I mean, I'm five years younger than she is and I can only dream of looking half as good as her BEFORE pictures.
Fake. Our society is an Orgy of Fake.
And as an aside - how crappy would it make you feel, if they felt the need to airbrush your picture that much? It's insulting really. Maybe that's what sparked the killer workout routine...
V.
yeah, prolly airbrushed. The body could be any skinny girls body with faith hills head. she may be perfectly in shape- but we all got things we wouldn't want the world to see.
not liking her workouts either, although, I think we all want a great body- maybe just not willing to spend hours daily to get it.
I'm going with airbrushed as well. Though, that sounds like some pretty extensive exercise. I could only dream of doing that much.
I'm gonna chime in with airbrushed. Not that Faith isn't a beautiful and fit woman! She certainly is, and certainly works for it. But I've seen enough candid photos of the gals that grace the cover of Shape to realize that all the abs are airbrushed in.
Still, I hope I look half as good as Faith at 41 and after 3 kids. Hell, I'd like to look half that good now, at 26!
Shouldn't there be a corresponding indentation by her fingers to match the other side--if it were not airbrushed?
My real problem with this article is not the airbrushing but the complete acceptance (and glorification!) of her workout routine. "Daily four-mile elliptical sessions, light weights, crunches, push-ups, and thrice-weekly Pilates classes." So... she works out EVERY DAY, sometimes doing more than one type of activity. I am into being healthy, I am into working out, but I strongly believe that this sends the wrong message. This routine sounds like it takes over her life. Her life (children, husband, career) all must be planned around her workout. And for what? So she can be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine?
I'm sorry, but there is so much more to life than our bodies.
This is why I don't subscribe to these magazines. How can I possibly be encouraged to work out or make lifestyle changes to improve my health/figure when confronted by a photograph of a 'fake' body? I know of only one worse example, a local 'magazine' in Houston called something like Lifestyle & Fitness; *every* page advertises plastic surgery, cosmetic dentistry, and/or liposuctions. You find it by the door at any health club in town.
Oh, how the hell would we know and what difference does it make? Is this really even a discussion? If they airbrushed her - good job. If she worked out and that's really naturally her - even greater job. Like one responder said - most of you won't even put in the work to attempt a body like that and may not even have the resources to have someone whip you back into shape - so how would you know how well it works and how much of your natural beauty you can retain by doing it? It's all surmising - and a waste of time
