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Warped reality picture3/23/2023 And for those images not to be digitally altered because of the impact on other people who are looking in.” But I would ask that they be honest about the reason they are looking their best. “I have no qualms with them wanting to get on and look their best. “I don’t follow the Kardashians, but they must be under a huge pressure to maintain their image, not just because so many people look at them but also their business interests tend to be around their advertising,” he says of the gravity-defying reality TV stars. (A day after we speak, Kim Kardashian finds herself at the centre of a controversy after revealing she followed a crash diet to lose 16lbs to fit into Marilyn Monroe’s dress at the Met Gala). While Evans agrees that the Kardashians’ photoshopped images can fuel eating disorders, a key area of concern for him is the distortion of workout photographs. Now, even if you did all that stuff, you still couldn’t replicate the images that are on social media. But the world is different to how it was when I was younger. I always wanted to look good when I went to the gym and then on the beach. “I always thought – if I had the right diet and worked out at the gym – I could get there. “I grew up in the times of Baywatch and Gladiators,” he says. “They’d say: ‘These celebrities are curvy, but not in the way in which I’m curvy’.”Įvans cites statistics which suggest one in three teens and one in five adults feel ashamed of their body. The curvier women, the Nicki Minajs of this world, also caused problems. If they were a healthy size 12 or 14, they were disappointed at not being a size six. “The peer pressure that people felt when looking at their friends’ images, added to images of celebrities as well… they simply weren’t able to climb that mountain,” he says. “In my surgery I was seeing a lot of young men asking for prescriptions to bulk up, as well as a lot of young women concerned about their weight, their shape and what they ‘should’ look like,” he says, blaming social media for creating a “warped sense of reality that doesn’t exist”. The quest came after treating increasing numbers of young people with body dysmorphia – not just female patients, but men too. If my appearance happens to be a part of that, then I know I’m going to get questioned about it.”ĭorset-born Evans, the son of a GP father and a nurse mother, started campaigning on the body image issue as soon as he won his safe Leicestershire seat at the 2019 general election – six months after marrying fellow GP Dr Charlotte March, whom he met studying medicine at Birmingham University. The end goal is what you’re trying to deliver – that’s the key. “There are merits to being able to use that as leverage, but you do become the story instead of the issue you are dealing with. “I find it a strange place to be, people generating stories about the way you look, rather than what you do,” he says. The PM commended Evans on his campaign.Īfter months of lobbying, the MP for Hinckley and Bosworth now appears close to persuading the Government to recognise the issue of body image in UK law for the first time.īut has Evans ever felt personally “objectified” by the coverage of his impressive pectoral muscles, eclipsing his policy ideas, I wonder?Įvans lets out an embarrassed laugh. He told the house that 1.25 million people suffer with eating disorders and one million people are using steroids, before confirming that 84 MPs from seven different parties have signed a supportive letter calling for companies, brands and charities to sign up to the Body Image Pledge (a voluntary commitment to not digitally manipulate body proportions). In PMQs, Evans asked Boris Johnson to back his campaign to stop companies altering images to give a more favourable impression of body image – because of the impact this can have on mental health. A topless Instagram picture showing Evans’s equally attractive blonde wife trimming his hair in their garden during lockdown went viral, seemingly contradicting the notion that politics is “showbusiness for ugly people”.Īs one of the only MPs to have fully embraced TikTok, where his videos have been liked by nearly 300,000 people, the 39-year-old is arguably better placed than most to campaign on the issue of body image. He’s even earned the nickname “Dr Luke Heaven” thanks to his “chiselled chin and ruffled dark hair” (according to fans). The GP-turned-Tory-heartthrob has won legions of admirers on social media, where he frequently shares his photographs. Luke Evans is squirming at the notion of being labelled one of Britain’s “hottest” politicians.
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