Julia Bluhm, Seventeen Reader, Petitions Magazine To Feature Non-Airbrushed Photos

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11. And the sadly unsurprising result.

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Seventeen Says Thanks But No Thanks To Teen’s Photoshop Petition

Seventeen editor Ann Shoket met yesterday with Julia Bluhm, the 14-year-old reader who started anonline petition to askthe magazine to curb its use of Photoshop. Although the magazine accepted the petition and its nearly 25,000 signatures when Bluhm went to deliver it in person yesterday,it appears Seventeen has no plans to take Bluhm's suggestion and start publishing just one non-Photoshopped spread per issue.

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Bluhm, an 8th grader who lives in Maine, said this morning via a spokesperson that she was nonetheless happy to have had the opportunity to meet with Shoket. "The fact that Seventeen's editor-in-chief met with me in person provesthat the voices of teen girls everywhere are getting through," said Bluhm. "While I would stillchange some of the ways Seventeen portrays girls,I'm encouraged that they're willing to listen to me and the 30,000 people who've signed my petition. Seventeen's invited me to work with them on this issue, which meanswe girls— Seventeen's readers — are finally being heard loud and clear. It'sreally exciting."

Bluhm's media blitzhas certainly been felt online: traffic spikes made the Web site of SPARK,the feminist organization Bluhm is involved in, inaccessible for most of yesterday afternoon,and Bluhm's petitionhas now been signed by over 45,000 people and is still growing.