Dove and their campaign for real beauty...

If you haven't seen this site yet that has a commercial that is creating talk everywhere, including on CNN under "The truth behind beauty".

Personally I think the reason why self image becomes a problem is because we as consumers continue to buy products that buy into the whole "don't be you" commercialization. We tell our children we love them just as they are yet continue to be attracted to products that will make us prettier, or look younger or look slimmer, basically negating what we are telling them. I'm not even going to get started on the clothing lines for the pre-school up to first grade set that I wouldn't even want my teenager to wear...

To many of us as adults want to look like that model or look like that movie star so it's no wonder that our kids perception might end up being just as skewed as some of ours. If you don't like what you were born with? Change is as close as your nearest plastic surgeon. Ironically what this Dove campaign points out is that the person some of us may trying to look like without all of the makeup and all of the computer ehancements...looks like most of us now...

:-)