I remember well the first time I saw six women in every shape and skin color greeting me on a billboard outside New York’s Holland Tunnel, wearing white cotton underwear. I nearly ran my car off the road.

For all the summer 2008 arguments about whether the photos were Photoshopped or not, I believe that the validity of Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty stands firm. These “au naturel” women caused enough controversy as they were.

Never before did women of such a variety of shapes and skin colors sit center stage.