Be A Success Story

Julia Bluhm, age 16, is a success story because she is a blogger for the SPARK Movement, which fights against sexualized images of women and girls in the media. At age 14. she started a petition on Change.org that asked Seventeen magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Ann Shoket to publish one spread each month of unaltered pictures. In turn, Shoket had the entire staff of the magazine sign an eight-point pact, which includes a pledge to “never change girls’ body or face shapes” and will only include images of “real girls and models who are healthy.