Effortless Perfection

Published: July 25, 2007, 11:01 am

Tags: arts media, inspiration, religion society, trends

The cover of Redbook for July has a picture of Faith Hill and a teaser "Faith and Tim: What's normal about them; what's not." Well, the question is a bit ironic given the fact that one of the things that is not normal about Faith is her cover photo. It's no suprise to me that cover-photos are photo-shopped. What is a bit more unusual is getting to see the original next to the shopped one. The site jezebel.com (site contains profanity) has them digitalized so you can see both. It's maddening how obsessed with perfection our culture is. Faith is a stunning woman without being photoshopped, but we are so obsessed with an ideal that even someone as outwardly attractive as she is has to have her photo doctored. The new standard that is being held up is one of "effortless perfection." I have a different ideal I'm working toward. It is not one that disowns beauty as the Gnostics disowned the body. But it is one that focuses on the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit

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