Kelly Brook | Playboy September 2010 | Ellen Von Unwerth

The Kelly Brook, Ellen Von Unwerth Playboy September 2010 photos are circulating the Internet, in all their female glory. (See Sensuality News).

Where would readers be without the media making targeted comments about every small ‘flaw’ in a woman’s body? Women might not even notice these ravages of gravity, until they’re pointed out for the whole world. Then we fixate in our own mirrors.

Kelly Brook is on record saying that Ellen Von Unwerth made me feel totally at ease during her Playboy photo session. Kelly has also admitted feeling tremors of unease over being a ‘natural’ 30-year-old woman in a sea of Playboy’s usual dose of nubile silicone.

To be fair, the Playboy website says they hope ‘natural’ will return, without admitting Playboy Media’s major effect on men’s erotic, visual appetites. Considerable anecdotal research about men’s visual, womanly appetites suggests that her every figure flaw isn’t under the microscope in men’s minds.

Fashion, beauty, celebrity media, and significant numbers of designers believe differently. They exist to point out and fix women’s flaws so that she will become confident.  Women are left torn about who and what opinions to internalize in our self-image systems; which flaws render us not fit to face the world vs those that merit fixing. 

Women tend to believe business and media, rather than husbands, brothers, boyfriends and the male species in general. After all, men will say anything to get women into bed, whereas business and media have our best interests at heart.

Having expressed some insecurities about being an ‘au naturel’ bosom woman, Kelly Brook couldn’t be thrilled to read today’s Daily Mail headline: Is Gravity Catching Up with Kelly Brook? At a Stretch.

If you look closely, you will note a small breast crevice and we’re not talking Kelly’s cleavage. I’m trying to imagine an editorial position where this is my story. This is an example of the kind of flaw obsession that now constitutes our media cuture.

Kelly Brook has a lot of moxie and I think she can take the Daily Mail’s bosom-gravity scrutiny. Promoting her new Piranha 3-D movie, she told Playboy that she would be willing to do anything for film-maker Alexandre Aja.

“Alexandre is French, so we did anything he asked us to do just because of his accent,” she said. “If he were a ballsy American and asked me to bend over and smile at the camera, I’d be a bit suspicious.”

Brook shares a lesbian sex scene with Riley Steele in Piranha 3-D.

As to Kelly Brook’s comments about French vs American directors, Playboy has no response.  See the Kelly Brook Playboy photos unfiltered at Sensuality News.

More SFW, earlier photos Ellen Von Unwerth photos from Playboy, September 2010 also on Sensuality News.

Update on Sat, August 21, 2010 by Anne

In a similar vein, today’s Daily Mail devotes a long article with photos to a discussion of Shakir’s new video. The headline reads: Shakira shows stretch marks while shooting new video. We all know that the Daily Mail is a rag, but they’re fast and generally accurate. Thhis microscopic obsession of the Female pages (yes, very female-friendly!!!) with women’s physical flaws seems to be on the rise.