Royal College of Psychiatrists joins calls for airbrushed photographs to be labelled

From a party news release ahead of Jo Swinson and Lynne Featherstone meeting with representatives of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA):

Commenting on today’s report from the Royal College of Psychiatrists calling for airbrushed images to be ‘kitemarked’, Liberal Democrat MP, Jo Swinson said:

The Royal College of Psychiatrists makes it crystal clear that airbrushing plays a harmful role when it comes to negative body image and eating disorders.

Airbrushing has a really damaging impact on people’s self-esteem and that’s why we’ve called for a labelling system.

Making sure children are taught to be media-savvy and getting ads which feature unrealistic, unattainable images to have a kitemark will be a real step forward.

I’m meeting with the Advertising Standards Authority today to press these issues.