I came across this story the other day. Here is the actual link:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a95415/merna-i-struggle-to-control-my-boobs.html
Gemma Merna has admitted that she struggles to control her breasts while filming Hollyoaks.
The actress, who plays Carmel Mcqueen in the Channel 4 soap, said that she often suffers wardrobe malfunctions due to her large chest and revelaed that she uses ‘tit tape’ to keep herself covered up.
She told Nuts: “There have been quite a few wardrobe errors, yes! It’s hard to control these two (points at boobs). They sometimes have a mind of their own so thank goodness for tit tape!”
Talking about her bosom, she added “I do like my boobs but it does get a bit annoying with blokes talking to your boobs”. The first thing people always say to me on shoots is “your tits look great!” And I think “well, thank you, but there’s more to me than that!”
Merna also admitted to being “naughty behind closed doors”, claiming that she was only “sweet and innocent in public”.
So, on one hand she doesn’t want to be known as just a pair of breasts but on the other hand she is appearing in these magazines which perpetuate the idea that that’s all women are:- tits and arse.
Look, Gemma. Women are barely seen as more than that in society anyway. If you’re going to pose in these magazines you are most definitely going to be just that – a pair of tits. The men who read these magazines don’t care who you are, they care if you ‘put out’ or not. You are just wank fodder to them. THAT. IS. ALL.
These soft-porn magazines and newspapers are the reason that even women who go out in their gym wear for a run get harassed, abused, hollered at, leered at (i’ve just got back from a run so I’m angry and alluding to my own experience today but women are victims of street harassment when showing any kind of flesh – or not – on a daily basis), because these publications encourage the idea that if women are showing flesh then they are ‘up for it’ and ‘fair game’.
Think about it, Gemma. You can’t have it both ways I’m afraid but unfortunately, while these publications - and thus the inevitable attitudes which follow them around - continue to be mainstream it’s the average woman on the street who suffers at the end of the day. The woman who doesn’t court it but has no choice but to reap the repurcussions of the porn culture in which we are forced to live.
