If he just stood there and didn’t try to post he’d be better looking. As others have said, yeah, it’s over the top.
As for me personally, I tend to like my men a little more lithe. Think Simon from Firefly, not Jayne.
Hell, I’ve wished for other women’s X. Mainly it’s hair. I have incredibly curly, dry hair - it never looks like those fucking Pantene commercials - and I spent the first fifteen years of my life wishing desperately for straight, beautiful hair. (Now I love it). Or how about even skin tone, that might be nice, I tan on my arms but any skin that’s uncovered is like a really light beige…
Body image isn’t central to my identity but it’s a part of it, certainly.
I don’t mind the amount of muscle, it’s the “super cut” look I don’t like.
I don’t want a guy who looks like he lives on eggwhites and vegetables,and would be pissed if he got dirty*.
*And I realize (now) he’s a soccer player, so probably gets dirty all the time, but I’m just going on impressions from the ad. He’s probably way hotter when he’s been playing, instead of posing.
He just looks like he’s trying too hard in those shots. Great body, he’s definitely hot, but that set just has this…forced look about it that totally kills the sexy.
If those pictures were on America’s Next Top Model, Tyra would tear them apart. You need to model from “head to toe” and that includes “using your eyes.” Seriously, the reason the very gorgeous man doesn’t look great in those pictures is that he doesn’t know how to model. He doesn’t look like he’s got anything going on upstairs, and there’s no energy or tension.
I am in awe. I can’t believe what I just read. Cristiano Ronaldo absolutely brings the sexy. Seriously, when have you ever seen a body that gorgeous? My eyes never even get around to looking at his face!
I’ve seen bodies that gorgeous on every billboard in Times Square. More gorgeous, actually, because they don’t have those weird muscle imbalances.
I have no doubt that he looks much better and sexier in any other context. I’ll bet he looks like a god on the soccer field. But in these photos, he’s not sexy.
Like others have said, he’s no good at modeling. And most of the styling choices were just plain anti-sexy.
He’s got too much of a primping/preening look. Particularly the vest with no shirt look that I only ever see here in the gay village. And the first photo, if his fingers were relaxed and it looked like he was scrubbing the manly sweat from his brow with his forearm, or the back of his hand, that would be dude-like. His fingers splayed and touching his face, looks too much like the body language that you’d see in old silent movie when the damsel in distress would swoon. I can’t find a real photo, but here’s riff of the pose I mean. He’s trying too hard to be sexy and it’s making him look effeminate. He should go for rugged.
So all of those links show people with “gym muscles?” I’m trying to get a handle on what gym muscles are compared to muscles people use. I don’t see how you can say that top athletes in the world, people that rely on their bodies’ performance and not their looks to earn money, are just gym muscle.
No I didn’t know who he was. Googling shows that he was an athlete (among other things). And?
Would you mind answering my question as to what makes muscle “gym muscle” and what makes it “real muscle?” From your labeling of Ronaldo, I would think you’d also label Onyewu and Adrian Peterson that way. Which brings about the confusion as to what gym muscle is.
