Why Modelling Makes Doutzen Feel "Guilty"

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VICTORIA'S SECRET model Doutzen Kroes has admitted that it worries her that airbrushing and other photography tricks can create a fashion image that makes women feel insecure.

"Sometimes it makes me feel guilty now that I am in this profession that makes certain girls insecure," Kroes told the New York Post. "I always say, I don't look like the picture. If you put me in bad light with no hair and make-up, it's not good... I wake up sometimes like, this is not what I see when I look at the magazine, who is this visitor in the bathroom?"

Kroes's words echo the sentiments of Vogue's recent school initiative and film, It's A Look - made to show schoolchildren what goes in to the making of a fashion image, highlighting both post- and pre-production image alteration - spearheaded by editor Alexandra Shulman. The initiative aims to protect young people from future feelings of inadequacy by arming them with the knowledge of how fashion images are made.

Kroes is not the first Angel to have her say on the airbrushing debate. Erin Heatherton said last year that she thought it was perfectly acceptable as long as children were aware from school age that the practice was happening: "Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies," she said. "It's just a part of life."