Kelly Osbourne, Playboy, Hef (that looooser) and Posh Spice

"I can't see it happening somehow - we don't airbrush to that extent."

Hugh Hefner on Kelly Osbourne's desire to be in Playboy.

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Hmmm.... Let me say straight off that I am no Playboy fan.  I don't buy into the argument that if a woman is choosing to do it, it's liberating.  But that aside, it still bums me out immensely that an 80-year-old slime bag (that would be Hugh Hefner) gets to have some sort of final say about what vision of the female body is appropriate to be considered sexy.

Why is Kelly any less desirable or sexy than the blonde, surgically-enhanced, homogeneous images Playboy often promotes? Why can't Kelly be lauded as sexy and enviable instead of being indirectly ridiculed for the amount of air brushing it would take to make her "presentable?"

Meanwhile, Hef says that he's "inviting" Posh Spice to pose for the mag.  Posh--who's clearly has eating/body issues.  And that's going to end up influencing what some men think of as attractive and what women feel like they need to measure up to....

Yeah see, I don't like that....

Comments

[Bivis]

WOW Interesting !!!

[Kim]

Hugh Hefner is digusting. I come from a house where my father loved Playboy and actually bought my brother a subscription to the magazine when my brother turned 18. I was in college at the time, and I remember when I found out about it, I made a comment to my father about how that magazine objectivies women and contributes to major body image problems. Seeing as how at this point he had been trying to force me into therapy for my eating disorder, you think he would have been more willing to listen to my opinion. But instead he blew up at me and stood up for the magazine. Is it any wonder I have the body image problems that I do?! Way back before my anorexia began, I had a build very similar to Kelly Osbourne. Maybe if I had lived in a society and family where that was considered OK and (gasp!) attractive even, I would have a better self image. I can't blame my problems all on my father, but I do partially blame my problems on a society where people like Hefner get to define what is sexy and people like my father buy into it.

[Audrey]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Kim.. Another reader of mine IMed me once she read them and said that she went through a similar experience with her father....Sounds like we need some Dad Education... that they might just not realize how much of an impact their decisions about which women they regard as beautiful, and what media sources they encourage sons to read might affect their daughters.

I don't know any org off hand that would be right for tackling said problem. But Dads and Daughters is a great, important non-profit (www.dadsanddaughters.org) and Jackson Katz is an AMAZING expert/author on all things masculine in our pop culture (www.jacksonkatz.com)