In a recent interview between 37-year-old Milla Jovovich and Net-A-Porter’s The Edit, Katie Mulloy, Jovovich claimed that she has no worries about gaining a little weight as she gets older. In fact, she told The Edit, it makes her even more attractive:
“I always notice guys are more attentive when you have a little weight on you. My husband loves it. [He says]: ‘Your boobs! Your arse looks amazing!’”
The Resident Evil actress talked about her modeling career after giving birth to her daughter in 2007 and was pressured to lose weight. “Last summer, I was definitely 15 pounds lighter,” she told the magazine. “I’d done a Vogue Paris cover at the end of 2012, so I’d been to the gym and I was on liquid diet. I lost the weight but, to be honest, when I looked at pictures of myself – not in magazine, in real life – I felt I looked older,” she added.
Milla Jovovich is not the only one in the industry who turned to a liquid diet to drop pounds before a big gig. Take Victoria’s Secret Angel Adriana Lima, for instance. She has to adapt the liquid diet for nine days before the annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. Beyonce, too, turned to the liquid diet right before filming Dream Girls.
The industry tends to showcase women in waif-like figures, claiming it to be the “perfect look” for women. Unfortunately, this idea of perfection has pressured young girls to attain such figures that place significant possibilities of health issues, eating disorders, excessive exercising and unnecessary surgeries.
Hopefully more models will follow Milla’s lead and encourage positive body images at any weight.
Here is a video of Jean Kilbourne discussing on how digital changes are used in photographs of advertisements to achieve the “perfect look”:
Check out Milla’s recent photoshoot from The Edit here:
