Demi Lovato in VF
Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past few days, you've probably heard about Demi Lovato posing nude for Vanity Fair magazine. Demi Lovato--for those who don't know-- is an American singer who has legions and legions of young fans. She used to be a star on a Disney channel show so we can count her as another star breaking from the good girl image.
Demi has also had many body issues and addictions that she has openly talked about. She has definitely rebounded from those things. In a big way!
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Fucking wow. Do you see that beautiful ass on this woman?! Her ass is a work of art! I would tear that ass up!
She said she wanted to do it to show her new-found confidence in her body and in herself. Good for her but also good for us! The reaction by most people have been positive. There have been many articles written about the spread which support her. The day the photo spread came out, there was a trending topic on twitter which was "#WeAreProudOfYouDemi". Amazing. If I was a magazine or website, I would support her too! Who doesn't like naked women??!
But of course there will be naysayers who lash out at her and the people that support her decision. I have seen some of the worst things said about her. People have said that she should be ashamed of herself for "stooping to such a low level" by showing her body for attention because its not like people get naked to take showers everyday... People have been calling her whore, slut and everything else in the book. People have said that she is only doing it to promote her new album called "Confident". People have said that she only decided to strip down after she lost weight. So many different things.
All of this of course culminates in the simple fact that her young fans can see this and see how to be sexy and how to show their bodies to get ahead.
The following are comments made by various detractors of her decision:
"All I can say is the porn producers and pimps (which include women) must thank the heavens everyday women are "wired" this way as they laugh all the way to the bank."
"Come on women. We can do better than this."
"I can't help but think this actually does the opposite of the insinuated. When young women who aren't as beautiful as Lovato read where her doing this was such a hard, bold and brave move (looking like SHE does), you wonder if they'd ever take off their turtlenecks and jeans! It's a bit like those "plus-size models." Gimme a break. If they're full-figured, then most of us have NO hope. How does that help?"
"She used to be one of the classiest if not the best 'young' celebrity and now she's lowered herself into this cheap state like every other celebrity. Posing nude for 'attention' when she tries to class it as confidence. You look cheap love."
What do most of these commenters have in common? They're mostly women! They love hating and competing against each other!
If she wants to show her body, then she certainly has that right. She also posted the pictures on her Instagram where she has many young fans! The pornification of society continues!
Demi has also had many body issues and addictions that she has openly talked about. She has definitely rebounded from those things. In a big way!
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Fucking wow. Do you see that beautiful ass on this woman?! Her ass is a work of art! I would tear that ass up!
She said she wanted to do it to show her new-found confidence in her body and in herself. Good for her but also good for us! The reaction by most people have been positive. There have been many articles written about the spread which support her. The day the photo spread came out, there was a trending topic on twitter which was "#WeAreProudOfYouDemi". Amazing. If I was a magazine or website, I would support her too! Who doesn't like naked women??!
But of course there will be naysayers who lash out at her and the people that support her decision. I have seen some of the worst things said about her. People have said that she should be ashamed of herself for "stooping to such a low level" by showing her body for attention because its not like people get naked to take showers everyday... People have been calling her whore, slut and everything else in the book. People have said that she is only doing it to promote her new album called "Confident". People have said that she only decided to strip down after she lost weight. So many different things.
All of this of course culminates in the simple fact that her young fans can see this and see how to be sexy and how to show their bodies to get ahead.
The following are comments made by various detractors of her decision:
"All I can say is the porn producers and pimps (which include women) must thank the heavens everyday women are "wired" this way as they laugh all the way to the bank."
"Come on women. We can do better than this."
"I can't help but think this actually does the opposite of the insinuated. When young women who aren't as beautiful as Lovato read where her doing this was such a hard, bold and brave move (looking like SHE does), you wonder if they'd ever take off their turtlenecks and jeans! It's a bit like those "plus-size models." Gimme a break. If they're full-figured, then most of us have NO hope. How does that help?"
"She used to be one of the classiest if not the best 'young' celebrity and now she's lowered herself into this cheap state like every other celebrity. Posing nude for 'attention' when she tries to class it as confidence. You look cheap love."
What do most of these commenters have in common? They're mostly women! They love hating and competing against each other!
If she wants to show her body, then she certainly has that right. She also posted the pictures on her Instagram where she has many young fans! The pornification of society continues!
9 years ago
Vanity Fair is not unaccustomed to stimulating the debate about body-positive displays of the feminine... Some Xhamsters may be a tad too young to remember but I recall Demi Moore posing nude while heavily pregnant back in August 1991. This had the effect of stimulating debate regarding photographing the feminine image. Again in 1993, Cindy Crawford (one of the "supermodels" of the time) posed "shaving" KD Lang - again challenging stereotypes and stimulating debate.
For those who haven't seen them, a link to both images is included below.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/10/covers200810
It would seem the decision to photograph the former Disney Channel presenter is another chapter in the ongoing discussion regarding female sexuality within Western society - a chapter which continues to explore a woman's right to control her own body; what she does with it, with whom and when. I would argue it is the same debate which surrounds (at least in America) a woman's right to abortion, as well as more general attitudes which reach far back into history - the right to vote; divorce law; equal pay etc; and, of course the omnipotent rights (and wrongs) surrounding pornography. As a society, we continue to debate these issues and the way our opinions are shaped will keep evolving.
Specifically regarding pornography, it is difficult to argue (from a north European perspective) against a woman's right to take part. This is, perhaps, the continuing dichotomy for womankind and the debate it engenders. If women have fought and won the right to equality and the right to self-detemination, one cannot then balk at the idea that this includes the right to submit; to offer up one's whoredom and perfectly groomed holes to swaggering, salivating, weaponised uber-males and their idiotic egocentricity as they mock, jeer and pour their dumbed-down, scornful nutlust all over her.
Nothing is more beautiful then being true to yourself!
Thanks for the post.