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Body image campaign seeks to 'keep it real'
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Posted: Jun 29, 2012 7:06 PM PT
Last Updated: Jun 29, 2012 7:04 PM PT
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A Vancouver social media marketing company has joined a campaign called Keep it Real — an effort to counter the effect of unrealistically thin body images reinforced in many women’s magazines.
Lovesocial is hosting a three-day online campaign of its own, asking young women to tweet, blog and send in photos of themselves as they are, un-airbrushed or Photoshopped.
As the CBC’s Deborah Goble reports, the goal these efforts is to get fashion magazines to publish just one un-airbrushed photo a month.
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