Impossibly Beautiful

[randomness]

From http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2007/09/impossibly-beautiful.html:

You can star in a movie celebrating women with curves, and you can star in a television show celebrating nonconformity, but you will be allowed to demonstrate neither on the cover of Glamour, upon which you will instead be airbrushed to the verge of total unrecognizability, where only your familiar and lovely grin remains to identify you.

Check out the photo comparison.

Comments

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Wow, she looks awful! The thing I can't believe is that anyone thought that photoshopping job was an improvement.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Makes her head too big for her body. Man.

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

She looks lollipop-headed, and (probably the same effect) as though her face and body are in different planes.

And her proportions are all off.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Or, it's not really her body at all and they did a bad pasting job. In either case, it's clear that head and body are not on the same scale.

[skreeky]

I love the bit in the comments where Glamour replies to a letter, insisting they didn't photoshop it at all and as their article will tell you, she's a size 6/8.

I know what a 6/8 looks like, being one until a few months ago, and I assure you that a 6/8 is what they photoshopped her down to, not what she actually is. I'd put her at a 10/12, unless she's really really short or something. Sheesh.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

She is, in fact, very very short. IMDB claims 5'1", and those are generally recorded on the tall rather than the short side.

[skreeky]

Okay... although with the average American woman being 5'4" it's not like 5'1" is what I'd call really really short, so let's say she's shortish and I'm tallish so our proportions at the same dress size will in fact look very different. Given that, I will believe that her real size is a 6/8 petite and they've photoshopped her down to a 2/4.

No wonder the Lansdowne clubs will only hire dancers who are a size 0. And I am not making that up. They only stock costumes in a size 0. *eyeroll*

[rfrancis]

America F is hot, and I've though so (ironically) since first seeing her on the Ugly Betty pilot. The person on the Glamour cover is not. Because real chicks are hot.

[bookly.livejournal.com]

Wow. She looks like a toy version of herself.

[silk-roses.livejournal.com]

Wow. I was JUST thinking that about America Ferrera the other day. Damn shame.