WATERVILLE — Fourteen year-old Julia Bluhm has delivered her petitions asking Seventeen magazine to stop airbrushing away imperfections from its models, at least every once in a while.

Bluhm delivered more than 25,000 petition signatures to the magazine’s editor-in-chief on Wednesday in New York. Her group also held a mock photo shot outside the magazine’s building.

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Emma Stydahar, 17, of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., left, Julia Bluhm, 14, of Waterville, Maine, and Natasha Williams, 17, of East Flatbush, N.Y., protest outside Seventeen magazine's offices in New York on Wednesday. Bluhm delivered a petition and met with officials from the magazine urging them to publish one spread a month of model photos that have not been altered. She says images of young girls in the magazine present an impossible ideal for today's teens.
Emma Stydahar, 17, of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., left, Julia Bluhm, 14, of Waterville, Maine, and Natasha Williams, 17, of East Flatbush, N.Y., protest outside Seventeen magazine's offices in New York on Wednesday. Bluhm delivered a petition and met with officials from the magazine urging them to publish one spread a month of model photos that have not been altered. She says images of young girls in the magazine present an impossible ideal for today's teens. AP

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Bluhm wants one photo spread per month showing teens without computer alterations to touch up imperfections.

Bluhm, who launched her campaign on change.org, says teens need to see models without computer alterations to understand they’re not perfect, just like the magazine’s readers.

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