Airbrushed ads plus critics slammed Victoria Beckham for using ill sick looking model.

What people are talking about today: CVS is getting body-positive: The drugstore giant says it's cracking down on photo-shopping of beauty imagery it uses in stores, online and in marketing materadd ials. It created a heart-shaped insignia – which it calls "CVS Beauty Mark" that it will stamp on images that have not been significantly altered. The goal is to have its own brand's beauty images free of touch-ups by April 2019, it's putting pressure on its suppliers to join in, as USA Today reports. "The nation's largest drugstore chain will also require other makeup and beauty brands that sell products in its aisles to commit to a photo-manipulation ban by 2020 or face having an alert label placed on the images," USA Today says. It's feasible some beauty brands could be squeamish about showing model's pores and wrinkles. (Procter & Gamble, L'Oreal and Coty, any thoughts?) But seriously, how many consumers will object to this? Bring on the freckles and laugh lines. We can handle it.
Not so body-positive
A new Victoria Beckham ad shows a very, very thin woman modeling eyeglasses, and The New York Times says the image, featuring Lithuanian model Giedre Dukauskaite, "has drawn a fierce public response." On Twitter, author Amanda Foreman said the model "looks like a teenager with severe anorexia," while Piers Morgan wrote a column saying the ad made him feel "physically sick." On social media, such comments drew occasional concerns about thin-shaming, though most commenters were worried the image sent a dangerous message about beauty standards to girls and young women. On Facebook, someone used the hashtag #BeLikeFrance – France has banned super-thin models, and it's cracking down on airbrushed bodies in ads, which is in the zeitgeist (see above.)
H&M: H&M temporarily closed all its stores in South Africa following reports that protesters had left several locations in disarray, CNN reports. Demonstrators were angry about an H&M ad in the UK that showed a black child wearing a T-shirt that read "coolest monkey in the jungle."