Our columnist has no problem with the songstress showing off her figure.. but accusations of doctoring images hit a sour note.
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She's always been something of a curiosity but Mariah Carey's obsession with exposing her body has taken an interesting new twist. Now it appears she's more interested in flaunting an ideal of her famously curvaceous figure after the songstress was accused of photoshopping a picture used on a magazine cover.
Yes, there she is, aged 47, smirking into the camera with only her long flowing locks covering her significant assets up top, with a bejewelled thing stretching from her neck to her extremely trim waist. The same waist, we're assuming, that was pictured not looking quite so trim just a few weeks ago.
Her "outfit" in the shot consists of just a pair of sheer elbow-length gloves, black pants and a pair of fishnet tights. If she'd been pictured wearing that in her full-figured glory - as we are used to seeing her - I would have said: "Good on you."
I wouldn't be so keen to be pictured dressed like that at just three years younger than her but I have nothing against older stars baring their body parts. After all, if you've got it, flaunt it. In a way, I think the likes of Madonna and Cher have been trailblazers for the rest of us in saying: "Age doesn't matter, I'll dress however the hell I want to."
I'm totally behind that. But if you can't own your own body, if you step up to say, "Here I am, age 47, proud of my figure and fearless about showing you," then please make it an accurate representation. To do anything less is pretty desperate. As one fan tweeted: "I would have loved this picture more if she would have showed her real self and maybe just airbrushed the minor stuff like scars, but taking half your body out, come on Mimi."
But perhaps the reason for the apparent altered images lies in another revelation from the star last week when she admitted to feeling insecure. She told US website Page Six: "I have always had low self-esteem and people do not recognise that. Growing up different, being biracial, having the whole thing where I did not know if I fit in."
And that's when I start to feel like a big meanie for criticising her pictures because, is it not that very insecurity that's causing her to try to project a perfect image of herself? Most of us are guilty of it in one way or another. I know I am as I blindly try just about every different anti-ageing treatment on the market. Yet the truth is, as long as we are chasing an ideal, we fail to appreciate the individuality that others love in us.
(Scottish Daily Record)
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