Awesome 14-Year-Old Delivers 25,000 Anti-Photoshop Signatures to Seventeen Magazine
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Bluhm — an 8th grader from Waterville, Maine, who took the day off from school to come to the New York demonstration with her mother — decided to start the petition because, she says, “We know that Photoshop can be very harmful to girls because they think they have to look like these images. But it’s not even real, it’s Photoshop. So it’s kind of impossible to look like that in real life.” Bluhm coordinated her petition with SPARK, a group she’s active in and which organized today’s protest — on the SPARK Web site, you can see posts Bluhm has written about body image and ballet, her chosen extra-curricular, women athletes she admires, and why it bugs her when her classmates call her “ladylike.”