There has been a big push in recent years to examine how kids’ popular culture affects their body image. Little girls have been playing with Barbies and watching Disney princess movies for the better part of the twentieth century (including now), but what is the influence of those cartoonish female bodies and exaggerated faces? Earlier this year, one man made waves when he rendered a 3-D model of a Barbie doll with the measurements of an average American 19-year-old. Now, an illustrator for Buzzfeed has done something similar, but with images of Disney princesses.
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Illustrator Loryn Brantz took stills from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, and more and very subtly adjusted the princesses’ midsections so they would look more human. The new images aren’t especially shocking—until you compare them with their original counterparts.
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The new princesses don’t look overweight or anything approaching unhealthy. What is unhealthy? Their original, surrealist waists, which often mirror their necks or wrists. Seriously, how did Princess Jasmine stay upright?!
You can go to Buzzfeed to see more of the illustrations. It’s especially disappointing to note Queen Elsa from the recent smash success Frozen. She emerged in 2013, and she's no improvement over Princess Aurora in 1959!
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