Women's Rights Petition

Women's Rights Petition  You can sign it too!

"When 14-year-old Julia Bluhm looked through magazines like Seventeen, she saw unrealistic, photoshopped bodies of other teen girls -- it's not how girls like her actually looked.


So she started a petition on Change.org asking Seventeen to publish just one un-retouched photo a month to honor real girls and real beauty. More than 80,000 people signed Julia's petition, and the most widely distributed magazine for teenage girls went above and beyond what Julia called for:

Seventeen vowed to not alter any of the face shapes and body sizes of its teen models, and to feature models with a diversity of body shapes, races and hair textures.

But Seventeen's not the only teen magazine that photoshopped teen girls, and Julia's not the only one who wants to see that change. 16-year-old Carina Cruz and 17-year-old Emma Stydahar have started their own petition on Change.org asking another teen fashion giant, Teen Vogue, to make its own commitment to portraying real girls and real beauty.

Carina and Emma are convinced that if Teen Vogue joins Seventeen, the two magazines (as the two biggest in teen fashion) can create an industry standard all other teen girls' magazines will follow.

Click here to sign Carina and Emma's petition calling on Teen Vogue to join Seventeen in vowing to present real girls in their full un-Photoshopped beauty to its readers

"These photoshopped images are extremely dangerous to girls like us..." Carina and Emma say in their petition, "because they keep telling us: you are not skinny enough, pretty enough or perfect enough. Well, neither are the girls in the pictures! As teen girls, we know first hand how hurtful the photoshopped pictures in these magazines can be for our body image and self-esteem."

Carina and Emma are ecstatic that Julia's campaign won, especially because they really weren't sure the campaign against Seventeen would succeed -- even the small change Julia was asking for was essentially asking Seventeen to buck the conventions of an entire industry.

But now, with the recent victory against Seventeen, Carina and Emma are confident they can fight unrealistic, even dangerously unhealthy, beauty standards being portrayed in this country -- and win.

But they can't win without you. Click here to sign Carina and Emma's petition now, and call on Teen Vogue to join Seventeen in committing to showcase real girls and real beauty.

Thanks for being a change-maker,

- Shelby and the Change.org team"