“Pain is beauty.”
As a female,
I certainly heard that phrase and took it to heart. I believed the lie that it
was a female’s obligation to endure pain and suffering for beauty. Hence, my
dark battle with eating disorders developed.
Recently, I
caught a fashion ad which disturbed me.
Fashion
photographer Danil
Golovkin did a layout in which she featured model, Anastasiya
Kolbasko. This, in my opinion, was a glamourized depiction of eating disorder
behavior.
Rather than
wearing the jewelry designs, the blonde model “eats” the adornments of gold
styled by Liliya Simonyan.
But, the
photos go further. There is posing of the model and the jewelry to suggest actual
purging; in some photos, Anastasiya appears to be vomiting the jewelry. And, in every photo of the series, of course,
the model has dead eyes and looks, quite frankly, cadaverous.
Triggering.
That’s an oft-used word for those of us recovering from disordered eating and
harmful, negative body image issues.
Looking at
this “artistic” layout, I couldn’t help but think “ding, ding, ding!” Triggered
ALL OVER the place!!!
And it
angers me, because it represents rampant thoughtlessness and reiterates how
harmful images need to be heeded, embraced and promoted.
I don’t know
if any of these people involved in the creation of this ad had any experience
with the horror of eating disorders. Perhaps none of them had loved ones
touched by these painful disordered conditions. But still, is there no sensitivity?
“Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another.
Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the
way of a brother or sister.”
Romans 14:13
“But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become
a stumbling block to them that are weak.”
1 Corinthians 8:9
And it, yet
again, it brings the importance of God’s real estimation of us, our value and
yes, our beauty…
The Song of Solomon:
2:14: “O my dove…let me see your form…for your form is lovely.”
4:1: “Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast
doves' eyes...”
4:7: “Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.”
6:4: “Thou art beautiful, O my love...”
“For I know the
thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of
evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11
I guess we all have to work overtime focusing on these scriptural images, just to cancel out
the images like this “glamour” ad campaign.
May we all absorb Psalm 139:14 as a defense
against the warped fashion image messages hurled our way…
“...I am fearfully and wonderfully made…”
Copyright © 2015 by
Sheryle Cruse
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