Video massage “palpate-row”, laser, shock waves and creams of all kinds … A myriad of hypothetical remedies maintain the myth of a problematic cellulite. But where does this obsession come from?
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Having cellulite is almost inevitable: between 80 and 90 % of women have it. Nothing abnormal, therefore. However, this “orange skin” has become a central problem in building beauty criteria. Female magazines, social networks, conversations are full of advice to get rid of it. But why has cellulite become the number one aesthetic enemy.
This capiton hunt does not come out of nowhere. It finds its origins in a long cultural construction made of bank medical research, sociological transition and arbitrary injunctions relayed by the female press. The problem of cellulite is a creation of scratch, and the archives of the past allow us to know who orchestrated it.
Sources:
- The female body between science and guilt , Rossella Ghigi (2004)
- Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West, Peter N. Stearns, Nyu Press (2002)
- History of the body, volume 3: The mutations of the gaze – the 20th century, Georges Vigarello, Jean -Jacques Courtine and Alain Corbin (2006)
- cellulite: an evidence-based revered , LUEBBERDING et al. (2015)
- cellulite: presentation and management , Arora et al. (2022)