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Voices CAMERON RUSSELL HUFFINGTON 05.19.13 LIFESTYLE COURTESY OF TED Beauty Is in the Lies of the Beholder Women are not crazy for wanting to have a discussion about body image. And the conversation isn’t as superficial as the one Dove keeps encouraging us to have. It is a conversation about sexism and racism. It is a conversation about the real reason we try to shrink our waists and whiten our teeth (and sometimes even our skin). Most of the time we don’t do those things to make ourselves happy, we do them for someone else. I think we should start talking about that. Fashion model Cameron Russell speaks at the TEDx MidAtlantic conference in 2012.