Female Beauty

The month of October, it’s all about breast cancer awareness and celebration of women’s health, in order to promote public breast cancer awareness, Trend Health magazine has been inviting female celebrities to pose for the campaign since 2005. And this time they invited three female stars Jiang Qinqin, Yi Nengjing, and Wu Junru to posed nude on their cover magazine of the October issue. “We believe it is more persuasive and influential to invite female celebrities to act as representatives,” Ms. Wang said, adding that a great many famous actresses from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are active supporters of the event.  Breast cancer in China is being publicly targeted by women’s organizations, Government health agencies and hospitals. In 1998 Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital set up a breast cancer department.

Though well intentioned, these actresses still courted controversy. Many doubted the need for the actresses to pose nude to promote women’s health, while others thought the magazine was only trying to increase sales.
“The theme of the October issue is the feminine beauty of the female form, of which breasts are an important part. The reason we ask representatives to pose nude is to attract public attention to feminine beauty, and the breasts,” Wang told the paper.  The largest challenge for those combating breast cancer is in the minds of women, who are prone to breast cancer but are not likely to talk about the disease openly.

Wang also said that the stars posed for the public interest so they deserve respect from the public, rather than suspicion of their intentions. The celebrities posed nude for free, Wang said, and never took a penny from it.
This is also the first time Jiang made a high-profile appearance in public since her pregnancy six months ago.
“As public figures, these women are more concerned about public welfare. Jiang Qinqin, thought the pink ribbon campaign is a meaningful one, and intended her participation to be a gift for her baby,” Wang said.

The Pink Ribbon Breast Prevention Movement, an awareness campaign for the prevention, detection, and cure of breast cancer, falls on the third Friday of every October. It began in 1992, when Estee Lauder cosmetic counters first gave away loops of pink ribbon to raise awareness of the breast cancer disease.

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