I hope this isn’t true because so many women I know think the Dove ads are brilliant (and great for our teenage girls to see), but there are rumors that the photos were extensively touched up. . . not so “real” after all. Now, if they were touching up things like hair sticking out, that’d be o.k., but any cosmetic changes would defeat the entire purpose of the campaign.
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