I would like my story to be a commentary on the obsession with beauty in today’s society. I have always had an interest in the distorted views of beauty in the modern world and this is a very topical issue that I would like to explore in my animation. Modern society has a fear of ageing and as women get older they ‘lose their looks’ and become disposable and irrelevant, are traded in for younger models and sometimes resort to plastic surgery to try and get back their youthful looks. This has been happening for a long time, whether it be men trading in their spouses for younger women or dropped from a media job for being’ too old’ e.g. Moira Stewart, the newsreader and Arlene Stewart, judge in ‘Strictly come dancing’, who were both sacked for this reason.
The idea is not just about what men think about women, but what they ‘should’ look like according to magazines and the rest of the media. The desire to look ‘young and fresh’, free of cellulite, slim but with boobs and hips and wrinkle free can for some women become obsessive.