TED talk on beauty - Anastasia Gvineria

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM4Xe6Dlp0Y

TED talk by a model named Cameron Russell who breaks down the most frequently asked questions about her, since she is a conventionally attractive female with a successful modeling career. She explains how modeling is not what it always seems and reveals the raw truth about it.

Title: 'Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model.' - Cameron Russell

The TED talk starts with Cameron talking about her experience with modeling, how she gets treated and later she explains that she will be answering the most frequently asked questions about her career. She says she will be as raw as possible and show the entire truth even if it is ugly. 

Firstly, she shows the modeling pictures from her portfolio and gives a backstory to all of them. The main idea for doing this is to show how photos and pictures are artificial and not accurate to reality. She shows a modelling picture of her with a guy where she seems very mature and sexual. She seems confident and like she knows what she is doing and looks much older than her actual age. 

She explains that in this picture, she is 16, very nervous and does not feel comfortable in what she is doing. She was told to pose like this and the picture was later retouched. This is obviously not what she looks like in real life and she is not as experienced as she might seem from this picture. 

We are also provided with some before and after pictures of her shoots. 

She also touches on the subject of racism and how the modeling industry tends to pick favorites and be obsessed with a specific look and not allow any diversity in their community. She says out of a 100 models, only a couple are black. 

Cameron also talks about how she has noticed people treating her differently from others just because of her looks and she gets away with things that some may not get away with as easily. She brings out an example of the cops stopping her for speeding but letting her go only 2 minutes later while another person would have been fined or faced more serious consequences. 

In conclusion, from this ted talk we learned that photos are not reality and we should not compare ourselves with them since they are productions and not real life. They are photos that are worked on by professionals in every aspect (Lighting, posing, makeup, retouching etc.). We learned that the modeling industry can be unhealthy and toxic and that people tend to switch up based on looks.