PHOTOS: Burn Victim Becomes the Cover Girl for Australian Womens Weekly • A 26-year-old Turia Pitt survived with 65 per cent burns was caught in a brushfire while running an ultra-marathon in Australia three years ago. She had to go through 100 surgeries and spent almost 3 years in the hospital fighting for her life. Turias photo on the cover has already touched people around the world. A much impressed Hello Giggles blogger Margaret Eby wrote about why Turia could be a catalyst for real change: Let Pitt be an example to other publishers of women’s magazines: Beauty comes in many vessels. Women need to see less gloss, and more grit. Less mascara, and more accomplishment. More women of color, more women with diverse backgrounds, just more. What if magazines started using women who didn’t look perfect on their covers? What if they started using women with unique faces and incredible back stories? Could we handle it? Yes, yes we could.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 08:05:00 +0000
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