HSG
4th April 2007, 19:34
<br>If you blinked, you probably missed it, but Kailee O'Sullivan was mentioned on <i>Entertainment Tonight</i> yesterday, as part of a report about the forthcoming "shape" issue of <i>Glamour</i> magazine.
We have spliced the two <i>ET</i> clips featuring Kailee into one (regrettably brief) video, linked below.
What makes this brief video so significant is that it displays Kailee's exciting <i>Glamour</I> tear sheet, and this may well be the most size-positive and beautiful image that this magazine has ever produced.<p><center><img src="http://www.judgmentofparis.com/ko/cap036.jpg"></center><p><i>Glamour</i> previously exhibited Crystal Renn in a somewhat similar manner, but Kailee's image is far more daring and attractive. In colour rather than black and white, it celebrates the model's fair skin tone. Miss O'Sullivan also has the more feminine figure--softer and fuller, making this image even more of a departure from the cadaverous tanorexic standard of today, and more wholeheartedly a revival of timeless beauty. It proudly celebrates <i>all</i> of Miss O'Sullivan's feminine curves--especially her naturally curvy waist.
Note the affirmative cut lines that <i>Glamour</i> has added to the actual page: <i>"She's voluptuous and proud"</I> (as she emphatically deserves to be), along with what is presumably a quotation from Kailee herself: <i>"I don't care what the scale says"</I> (and why should she?).<p><center><img src="http://www.judgmentofparis.com/ko/cap009.jpg"></center><p>Kudos also to <i>ET</I> for leading in to this piece with the bold caption, <i>"Plus-Size Models,"</I> to demonstrate to viewers that <i>this</I> sexy image represents what full-figured goddesses actually look like, not the matronly caricatures that the media routinely exhibits.<p><center><img src="http://www.judgmentofparis.com/ko/cap018.jpg"></center><p>Mind you, this is <i>Glamour</i>--a mass-media publication--so the issue in which this tear sheet will appear is sure to be suffused with mixed messages. Note even the difference between the image in the first screen capture and the next two, which reveals a discrepancy between Kailee's original photograph and the magazine's final page. In the latter, she (sadly) seems to have been coated in a darker skin tone. Even in the original image, her face, which is naturally gorgeously round, appears more oval than usual--suggesting a horizontal compression (narrowing) of the photograph. If the latter is true, how sad that <i>Glamour</i> would do such a thing, considering the purpotedly size-positive context of the page.
Nevertheless, this is still the most Classically beautiful, anti-modern image of femininity <i>Glamour</I> has yet produced, and hopefully, many young girls of Kailee's age will adopt the same sense of freedom and comfort with their full figures that word/image combination presents.
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fH6I-9cXrQ&fmt=18" target="_blank">Click here to watch Kailee's brief ET video</a>
We have spliced the two <i>ET</i> clips featuring Kailee into one (regrettably brief) video, linked below.
What makes this brief video so significant is that it displays Kailee's exciting <i>Glamour</I> tear sheet, and this may well be the most size-positive and beautiful image that this magazine has ever produced.<p><center><img src="http://www.judgmentofparis.com/ko/cap036.jpg"></center><p><i>Glamour</i> previously exhibited Crystal Renn in a somewhat similar manner, but Kailee's image is far more daring and attractive. In colour rather than black and white, it celebrates the model's fair skin tone. Miss O'Sullivan also has the more feminine figure--softer and fuller, making this image even more of a departure from the cadaverous tanorexic standard of today, and more wholeheartedly a revival of timeless beauty. It proudly celebrates <i>all</i> of Miss O'Sullivan's feminine curves--especially her naturally curvy waist.
Note the affirmative cut lines that <i>Glamour</i> has added to the actual page: <i>"She's voluptuous and proud"</I> (as she emphatically deserves to be), along with what is presumably a quotation from Kailee herself: <i>"I don't care what the scale says"</I> (and why should she?).<p><center><img src="http://www.judgmentofparis.com/ko/cap009.jpg"></center><p>Kudos also to <i>ET</I> for leading in to this piece with the bold caption, <i>"Plus-Size Models,"</I> to demonstrate to viewers that <i>this</I> sexy image represents what full-figured goddesses actually look like, not the matronly caricatures that the media routinely exhibits.<p><center><img src="http://www.judgmentofparis.com/ko/cap018.jpg"></center><p>Mind you, this is <i>Glamour</i>--a mass-media publication--so the issue in which this tear sheet will appear is sure to be suffused with mixed messages. Note even the difference between the image in the first screen capture and the next two, which reveals a discrepancy between Kailee's original photograph and the magazine's final page. In the latter, she (sadly) seems to have been coated in a darker skin tone. Even in the original image, her face, which is naturally gorgeously round, appears more oval than usual--suggesting a horizontal compression (narrowing) of the photograph. If the latter is true, how sad that <i>Glamour</i> would do such a thing, considering the purpotedly size-positive context of the page.
Nevertheless, this is still the most Classically beautiful, anti-modern image of femininity <i>Glamour</I> has yet produced, and hopefully, many young girls of Kailee's age will adopt the same sense of freedom and comfort with their full figures that word/image combination presents.
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fH6I-9cXrQ&fmt=18" target="_blank">Click here to watch Kailee's brief ET video</a>