Rachael Leigh Cook has spoken out against airbrushing a female star’s image, reports Fox News.
The
31-year-old actress says it is dishonest and must be stopped. She was
speaking at the 2010 Healthy Media for Youth Summit, in Washington D.C.
for the Girl Scouts of the USA and The Creative Coalition.
Cook was joined by Oscar-winner Geena Davis to address body image issues for young girls.
“I think it’s an absolute travesty that young women are seeing what the media is feeding them,” Cook told Fox News.
“It breaks my heart
to be part of an industry and part of a machine that really pushes out
these images and propagates these really terrible standards that are
false.”
“Nothing that you see is real, even if you look at what looks like a candid photo of someone, anything can be done," she said.
"It is false advertising and false advertising is a crime, so why isn’t this a crime? I’m just up in arms about it.”