Kristina Pimenova. This girl was all over the internet a few months ago. She's Russian, tall, and slender, with big eyes, voluminous hair, and an amazing face. She's also nine years old. ONLY nine years old.
As seen in the pictures above, this girl has been over-sexualized in her photo shoots. Is this healthy for a child who is still growing? No, it is not and it looks like people do not know limits.
The picture to the left at the very top, Kristina is wearing a very short, blue dress with the straps hanging loosely on her shoulders. Her very long legs are exposed and that's basically the only thing that people could pay attention to. This whole "I'm a super model" thing that the photographer wants Kristina to portray in that picture is promoting the idea that is presented in the film, "Miss Representation", it is that girls are objects and that their body parts are the only things that are valuable.
Comparing the left picture to the right one, which one would boys and older men more likely to pay attention to? The answer is the left one. Kristina is more covered in the right picture and all we can see is her face. Although she is beautiful, it is not enough to steal the spotlight. On the other hand, the picture to the left has Kristina showing more of her body therefore it captures more of the attention. This picture promotes the idea that women are objects and that the body they possess is the only thing that are valuable because of the way how she is posing. This girl was train to model and looking at the picture, they might have trained her a bit too much to the point where her pictures would lure older men. The picture does not show an innocent, young girl but more like a teenager. With her poofy hair and the way how her dress strap is hanging, gives us the impression that she has done something naughty and that is badly influencing the girl population and giving the boy population the wrong ideas about girls. . In the media, this problem of how kids are becoming more exposed to sexual acts is becoming a huge problem. People need to understand the limitations to how much is too much especially when there's a child.
This is not a good route for a young model to take. These decisions will eventually affect Kristina's life and she'll probably regret them.
This kind of thing is really scary. It is absolutely insane that people are going so low as to drag nine-year-old girls into the industry of oversexualization and dehumanization! Models live risky lives, and it is terrible that Kristina's life is already set on that path, before she is really grown up enough to make that decision for herself. Such a spotlight at that young age cannot be good for her... I wish her all the luck in the world!
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