Seventeen magazine vows not to alter images, to 'celebrate every kind of beauty'

By Greg Botelho, CNN

updated 7:19 AM EDT, Fri July 6, 2012

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/05/us/seventeen-photoshopping/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

(CNN) -- When teenage girls check out Seventeen magazine, they'll be getting the complete picture -- no ifs, ands or Photoshopped butts about it.

That's the pledge the magazine's staff made in its latest edition, after a push led by a Maine 14-year-old to combat the practice of tweaking pictures and picking models whose appearance give teens an unrealistic perspective on what is beautiful.

"We vow to ... never change girls' body or face shapes. (Never have, never will)," the magazine states as part of its "Body Peace Treaty" from its August edition, a copy of which CNN obtained Thursday.

The treaty and accompanying note by editor-in-chief Ann Shoket promise that Seventeen will "celebrate every kind of beauty" and feature "real girls and models who are healthy," while vouching that the magazine always has done just that.

 

But the more than 84,000 people who signed a Change.org petition, started by teenager Julia Bluhm, 

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