British royal Prince Charles' charity has axed its support for a self-esteem campaign featuring Kelly Osbourne after complaints over airbrushed pictures of the star. Ozzy Osbourne's daughter fronts an advert for tanning firm St Tropez, explaining how a healthy glow from the product made her feel slimmer.
She said, "I looked, like, 10 pounds skinnier and it started to make me look at my body in a different way." But the campaign has been blasted by officials at British organization PinkStinks - which campaigns for positive role models for teenage girls - amid claims the shots of reality TV star Osbourne have been digitally altered.
Bosses at The Prince's Trust, a charity founded by Charles, Prince of Wales in 1976, had endorsed the campaign, and the organization's logo appeared in a promo video - but it has since been removed.
PinkStinks founder Emma Moore tells U.K. newspaper The Times,...
She said, "I looked, like, 10 pounds skinnier and it started to make me look at my body in a different way." But the campaign has been blasted by officials at British organization PinkStinks - which campaigns for positive role models for teenage girls - amid claims the shots of reality TV star Osbourne have been digitally altered.
Bosses at The Prince's Trust, a charity founded by Charles, Prince of Wales in 1976, had endorsed the campaign, and the organization's logo appeared in a promo video - but it has since been removed.
PinkStinks founder Emma Moore tells U.K. newspaper The Times,...
- 4/27/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Consumer rights author Ed Mayo has claimed that the prevalence of pink toys for girls in shops could contribute to the pay gap between the genders. The former chief executive of national consumer watchdog Consumer Focus backed a campaign from mother Emma Moore to boycott the Early Learning Centre (Elc), The Daily Telegraph reports. Mayo said: "There may be worse things to worry about, but I feel this colour apartheid is one of the things that sets children on two separate railway tracks. One leads to higher pay, and higher status and one doesn't. "Does it ultimately lead to the 15% pay gap suffered by women further (more)...
- 11/30/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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