Personal Narrative: Pop Chips

I was astonished when I heard the news, I received Thursday afternoon from my manager! Pop Chips asked me to be in an ad for them! If you have never heard of Pop Chips, they are all-natural Potato Chips and are fantastic. As we make our way to the photoshoot, I had this weird feeling in my stomach. I think it was just the rush of excitement and nervousness getting to me. When we arrived, I was pulled straight out of my car and escorted to my dressing room, so we could get started ASAP. It took a good three full hours for them to apply make-up and to get my dressed fitted. The dress they had me in was somewhat hideous, but it didn’t affect me any because Pop Chips were paying me a ridiculous amount of money for this ad. Now, I made my way to the green screen. They stuck me right in the center of it, and had me do over twenty different shots and poses.
They said, “it was appealing to the eye.” I didn’t think much of it at the time. As I was on my way to my studio, I realized it was very inappropriate for me to stick those in front of my breast. There was so many things running through my mind. A couple of questions went through my head that really stuck with me. “Is this how men look at us women?” “How are other women going to feel about this ad?”
When other women see this ad, it is going to make them question their appearance. They are going to sit there and wonder about how their significant other thinks about them. It puts them in depression mode and pick’s out all their flaws. They will ponder on how they are too fat or too skinny, and why they aren’t pretty enough to be on a front page of a magazine. Which that would lead to depression and self- esteem issues. By me deciding to do this ad, it made me realized how men categorize us women. It also made me realize how average man belittles us daily. They will look at us on a numerical scale of hot or datable we