Rachael will be visiting Vancouver (Feb. 18th) to host a self-esteem workshop to help improve the self-esteem of young girls across Canada and around the world.

Rachael is working with Dove through Dove's partnership with US-based Step
Up Women's Network. Keep up the good charity work, Rachael!

Read the link below for details on the event:

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2008/13/c9642.html

-TR

Here is an article talking about yesterday's workshop...

Healthy is beautiful.

Actress Rachael Leigh Cook delivered that powerful and pointed message to a group of Grade 8 girls at York House School yesterday in anticipation of Dove's Global Workshop Day to improve self-esteem of impressionable teens on Feb. 29.

"It's so hard for people to see their own strengths and so easy for people to see their weaknesses," Cook told students in the interactive classroom setting.

Self-esteem expert Lisa Naylor helped students brainstorm causes for low self-esteem, warning signs a problem may be taking hold and ways to avoid falling into traps where girls "compete and bond around negative qualities."

"It's knowing you're not perfect but liking yourself anyways," Naylor said.

Cook went on, exposing her own Hollywood experience by noting how pictures in glossy magazines that line supermarket shelves are "absolute fiction" filled with retouched digital images.

Magazines aside, Cook and Naylor agreed the true test of beauty is having the strength to overcome the negativity of others.

"You'll always have your fair share of people willing to make you feel like garbage," Cook said. "So don't you do it too."

This article can be found here: http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2008/02/19/4857936-sun.html

-TR

And here is another blurb from the Vancouver Sun...

Twenty-eight-year-old Hollywood actress Rachael Leigh Cook is known for her 1999 breakthrough film She's All That. She is starring in an upcoming film with William H. Macy called Antique and was just in the popular pre-teen Hollywood hit Nancy Drew.

Cook was in town Monday for a visit to York House girls' school as part of the Dove (yes, it's the soap) self-esteem workshop program, which explores the definition of beauty, images of beauty in a popular culture and how societal pressures affect the way young girls feel about themselves.

Cook is no stranger to the whole issue. In Hollywood, it's pressure, pressure, pressure to remain rail-thin and to conform to a very narrow definition of beauty.

"I'm here to be the voice of reason for the crazy town I come from," Cook said in an interview with The Vancouver Sun.

She wanted to tell the Grade 7 and 8 classes that a photo shoot for her usually lasts a full day and includes a stylist, an assistant to the stylist, a hair person, a make-up person, a photographer, about three photographer's assistants and Cook's publicist to make sure nothing unflattering happens. Even then, the photos go through a heavy editing process.

She said her fitness regime is more motivated by health than beauty. "I saw how my mom's osteoporosis affected her and that encouraged me to get in the gym and try to do some weight-bearing exercise."

She had this message for the girls: "Let's really try to be an exemplary human being and be healthy and try to be your biggest fan because life is tough enough."

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastlife/s...4bd-64ba584ac9c7&p=2

-TR

These are really nice. Thx TR

Awesome stuff!

Another article including a small picture.
http://marketwirecanada.com/mw/release.do?id=822210

Click on the pic to make it bigger

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Nice find, mut. You truly are a media bloodhound. hehe

Here is the image, for those interested:



-TR

Laney Boggs in Vancouver

Am not ashamed to say I loved She’s All That. Totally just a teen movie and still… somehow subversively funny. And of course there’s Rachael Leigh Cook – remember she played “Joey” in the film adaptation of Dawson’s Creek…ON Dawson’s Creek? Sigh. Memories.

After Laney Boggs, Rachael was tapped as one to watch. Perhaps it was association with Tara Reid’s ghetto skank in Josie and the Pussycats that tempered the hype but it’s been a few years and Rachael’s career is now on a decidedly different direction, no longer aiming for the MTV fanbase.

She’s worked steadily, will appear in several independent films, reportedly even a project with the incomparable William H Macy, and is educating young girls about self esteem, breaking down Hollywood illusions, not afraid to expose even parts of her own past to illustrate the dangers of fame and celebrity.

Dove approached her to host a series of workshops and Rachael enthusiastically accepted. She kicked off Dove’s Global Workshop Day (official start is February 29th) on Monday in Vancouver, speaking to a group of Grade 8 girls at York House (photo attached), encouraging healthy self image exercises and focusing on more than just appearances.

Interestingly enough, she showed the kids an photograph of herself – check it out: the real Rachael is on the left, the photoshopped Rachael is on the right. As you can see, her abs lookED great. Then they brushed out the definition leaving… nothing.

Word is she was super sweet and super sincere. How refreshing.

To find out more about the Dove Campaign and to get girls involved in your community, click here.




Source: LaineyGossip.com

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another interesting article. Thanks for sharing!
I think its a shame that they photoshop all pics in magazines. Unedited pics look far better usually.

You are right, mut. I like unedited pics better too.