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IN AN AIRBRUSHED WORLD, HOW DO YOU DEFINE WHAT’S TRULY HOT?
Review by Erin Anderssen - Thursday, Sep. 06, 2012 Source: The Health of Canada’s Young People: A mental health focus
Conflicted teens A national study of 25,000 Canadian youth between the ages of 11 and 15, released this month, found that: - In Grade 10, half of boys and girls believed their weight was just right. - Nearly 40 per cent of Grade 10 girls felt they were too fat (significantly higher than the actual percentage that is noverweight) compared to 26% in Grade 6. - 20% of girls ranked their life satisfaction at or lower than five out of 10. (Among boys, 14 per cent said nthe same.) nRatings for life satisfaction fell with each grade, and were consistently poorer among girls.
Results of a 2011 online British survey of 1,000 young women age 10 to 21 - 84% understand what airbrushing means. - 48% said they are less trusting of companies that use obvious air-brushing in their ads. - 84% said Photoshopping of body shapes in ads was unacceptable. - 61% felt that even blemishes should not be airbrushed. - 47% said thin models make them want to diet or lose weight or feel more self-conscious (a percentage that peaked in nmid-teens).
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“Hotness comes in all Shapes and Sizes.” The problem is the three models, standing sideways in tight jeans, are barely distinguishable from each other. “What - are they, like, all the same?” asks Alyssa Spagnolo, 18, leaning in for a closer look. “Except maybe their butts” says 17-year-old Karmen Brar. (It’s true, one of the models does look a little more J-Lo. Slightly.)
“There’s maybe a difference between a size 0 and a size 4. Where are the size 8s, the size 12s?” Points out Shannen Maili-McAleer, 16. Paul De Sadeleer, 17, shrugs at his friend, Ryan Cao, also 17.
“I never realized how we think about things so differently. I just saw that and was like, ‘Okay, hotness comes in all shapes and sizes. I didn’t see that they were all thin.” “That makes me so mad” says Shannan. Mad, but conflicted. These are the same young women who admit that the girls in school are devotees of the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, and obsess about it for months afterward, posting pictures of their favourite model online, as an inspiration to lose the 15 pounds they probably don’t need to lose. (The reaction from Ryan and Paul? Another bewildered shrug.)
In a way, it’s the story of Adele, the white-hot English singer. The girls admire her for being a talented, outspoken woman who says things like, “I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.” But as Allison Lemenchick, 17, points out, they also hear the guys in school call her “that fatty.” The pressure to be perfect is coming at them from every direction, they explain: magazines, social media, the Tumblr pictures their peers collect of emaciated, Photoshopped celebrities, the “getskinny” websites. “It’s everywhere you look; it’s everywhere you go.” Alyssa says. Studies shows that depression, anxiety and eating disorders are on the rise especially among young women, and when Alyssa says everyone knows someone who purges after binge eating, or takes laxatives to lose weight, the rest of the girls nod.
“Girls analyze their bodies a lot more”
she says. “Guys might say, ‘I wish I was little more muscular.’ But with girls, it’s like, ‘My thighs are too big. I have too many zits.’”
“A girl is her own biggest critic” agrees Karmen.
Guys, Ryan says, have it easier. The magazines they read tell them to work out more, to exercise. Even if you’d like six pack abs, both he and Paul agree, there is more room in the male body spectrum to be different. Paul: “The girls are talking about negative pressure, and maybe it is for them. But when I am looking at athletes, it motivates me to go to the gym.” Allison: “But for girls, it motivates them to go the extreme.” Alyssa: “Yeah, to starve themselves.”
In all the debate about the perils of Photoshop and the impossibility of perfection, teenagers stand at ground zero, saturated in social media and bombarded with messaging. The side effects are showing: This month, a fresh group of young women jumped on a YouTube trend, posting pleading videos
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asking: A newly released study on mental health and young Canadians found that 39 per cent of female Grade 10 students believe they are fat, a number that’s substantially higher than those who are actually overweight. In the cafeteria at Ottawa’s John McCrae school, these six teenagers have been brought together to discuss
body image and the media and offer their opinion on some of the more egregious photo-shopping examples. (Remember the bizarre Ralph Lauren ad in which the model’s waist was barely as wide as her leg, and her over-large head looked ready to snap her stick neck? The unanimous reaction: Yuck.) As surveys go, it’s not scientific. They are outgoing, middle-class kids, good students chosen by the principal. A familiar theme emerges: On one level, they know most of what they see in magazines and on the Internet, is fantasy. (Says Alyssa of the Victoria’s Secret models: “We know it’s their full-time job to look beautiful.”) But when they look in the mirror, they find it difficult to reconcile the fantasy with reality.
So, what about all those celebrity photos that are airbrushed and thinned to a shiny, bulge-free perfection? “It catches our eye,” Ryan admits. “But it’s not like we would go after that. It’s just kind of there.” Paul jumps in: “But I think you would try to find something close to that. I would be dishonest if I’m saying when you see a girl on a magazine and she’s very good-looking, you don’t wish there was someone like that... [But]I hope I would never put that kind of pressure on a girl.” Alyssa: “Girls get ranked all the time.” Ryan: “Absolutely.” They are quick to recognize the contradiction, that the standard they are setting for themselves and for each other is fabricated by a computer. As Ryan points out -
“Photoshopping an already beautiful person just shows that perfection is unattainable.” Comparing before-and-after photos, they still seem surprised at how much is altered - how it’s not just the wrinkles under the eye, but the tiny puff of skin on Faith Hill’s back, or the completely digital bodies used in a controversial H&M bikini ad campaign. (Says Paul:
“Why do they even need to use real models anymore?”) In fact, Photoshopping has become so extreme in advertising that there have been recent calls to ban it altogether in Britain and the United States - an approach that the teenagers support. “The media doesn’t realize that we’re starting to understand that everything is fake,” says Karmen. “So when they make it more real, it drives us to that product.” This month, after a survey found that the majority of readers agreed that airbrushing zits from photos was okay, but making someone look five pounds lighter was not, the fashion magazine Glamour vowed to tell its photographers that they cannot manipulate body size, even if a celebrity asks for it. And for Alyssa and her peers, it seems important to know whether Kourtney Kardashian, posing with her newborn baby, asked for her post-pregnancy stomach to be flattened for a magazine cover, or if Adele sought that thinner face in her March photo spread in Vogue. “I want to know if she okayed that” says Alyssa, as they compared pictures of Adele at the Grammy Awards to her Vogue shoot, stopping on the inside picture that shows her hands pressed against her face, strategically narrowing it. Paul: “If I just saw these pictures, I wouldn’t know it’s her. The message is that this is more attractive than the way she actually looks.” Shannen: “She’s a role model, being so proud of her body. It would just be a big letdown.” It’s easy to see what’s wrong with this picture when you are being asked to look for it.
“I don’t think you should base your selfesteem on what other people sat is beautiful.” says Shannen. “Once you accept yourself, you can start figuring out what your perception of beauty is,” says Karmen. Words to remember, especially when the next Victoria’s Secret runway show tells them otherwise.
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HOW 27 YEARS OF PHOTOSHOP CHANGED OUR PERCEPTION OF REALITY. Review by Anne-Sphie Brändlin
Two months back marks 25 years since the launch of Photoshop. The image editing software has revolutionized the art of photo processing and our perception of reality - from ideals of beauty to media manipulation. It started as a simple computer program, only able to display a black and white image on a computer screen. Now a quarter century later, Adobe Photoshop is one of the most powerful image editing tools in the world. And the software seems to be everywhere: on our computers and smartphones, social media, in fashion magazines, newspapers and even our subconscious. Apparently, we are so used to photos being modified, altered, filtered and edited, that “un-photoshopped” photos of celebrities shock us and go viral something that has become the norm 25 years after the launch of Photoshop.
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The ways in which a person’s appearance can be changed through Photoshop are endless, from lengthening neck and legs to cutting out ribcages, raising cheekbones, filling in hair and changing skin colour.
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A video created for the non-profit website Global Democracy shows some of the ways the fashion industry often manipulates images.
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“The entire fashion industry is ethically highly problematic,” renowned German media scholar Thomas Knieper told DW. “By stretching the legs of stars, shrinking their waists and removing their wrinkles and skin blemishes, people admire them even more and try to emulate them.” Studies show that people who are often exposed to such heavily edited fashion pictures believe that what they see is the norm, which makes it more likely for them to suffer from eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia, according to the media scholar. “It drives people into depression because they can’t meet the requirements of the beauty ideals that are set by the media, not even if they undergo extreme starvation and beauty surgeries, because what is presented to them is anatomically impossible,” Knieper said. Body Evolution - Model Before and After.
“My eating disorder was perpetuated by retouched magazine photos.” That’s something Canadian Erin Treloar learned the hard way. She struggled with a major eating disorder as a teenager. “At age 17, I was 5 feet 11 inches (180 centimeters) tall and weighed 89 pounds (40 kilos),” she told DW in an interview. “My internal organs started shutting down, I lost my hair and I had to be admitted to a hospital program.” Treloar says her eating disorder was largely perpetuated by the media’s definition of beauty:
“Having a perfectionist nature and seeing what the media defined as perfect and beautiful, I wanted to achieve that.” In order to advocate for change and prevent other girls from going through similar experiences, Treloar, who is now 30 and healthy, launched the petition,
#LessIsMore
“I know that photo retouching is not going to go away completely and I don’t think it needs to.” Treloar said. “But what I want to see is that magazines stop retouching the body and faces of the women and men they feature. Fine, if there is a stray hair on the clothing that they’re shooting, remove that, or if somebody has a massive zit in the middle of their forehead, deal with that. But stop whittling down waists and adding thigh gaps.” More and more companies are picking up on what people like Treloar are advocating. American Eagle Outfitters’ lingerie line “Aerie” recently released the #AerieReal campaign, which only features completely un-retouched models. “Our Aerie Real message embraces a more realistic image of girls and women. There is no altering in any way, nothing is covered up,” Aerie’s chief merchandising officer, Jennifer Foyle, told DW via email. And the campaign seems to work.
Treloar hopes the signatures she collects will help pressure magazines and mainstream media to reduce the amount of Photoshop they use. #AerieREAL - Body-Positive Ad.
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MODEL WITH CARTOON-LIKE FEATURES SENT INSTAGRAM INTO FRENZY AS FANS DEBATED WHETHER SHE WAS REAL OR NOT. Review By Lena Dunham - Nov 30, 2016
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I’ve spent much of my year in bed. When I wasn’t working - something I do constantly, powered by a heady mix of adrenaline, passion, and fear. I was supine, feet up, heating pad on, recovering from three successive pelvic and uterine surgeries that rendered me unable to explore the world beyond my apartment, or maybe just angry and unwilling. I was also that kind of hazy, aching, embarrassed sick that makes even bingeing sixth-season Friends a nauseating chore. That’s where Instagram came in: like a series of trompe l’oeil windows painted on my bedroom wall, at its best Instagram allowed me to feel like I was a part of the world, high-fiving friends around an artisanal pizza. At its worst, it rendered me a voyeur, jealous of picnics and parties I didn’t even want to go to. During this time I gravitated to the accounts of women whose curated authenticity was both transportive and humiliating: It was during one of these episodes of bottomless searching that I first came across Lil Miquela. Her face was arresting - bright, catlike eyes, impossibly pillowy lips, and a tooth gap to rival Lauren Hutton’s. She was racially ambiguous with heavy freckles and had the kind of baby bangs I’ve spent twenty years striving for. She had cool friends who she got ice cream with on the Venice boardwalk and met up with in photo studios around LA. Oh, and she wasn’t real. “’Sim or human?’ Model with cartoon-like features sends Instagram into a frenzy as fans debate whether she’s real or not,” said the Daily Mail. Some Instagram users insisted she was a real woman using technology to enhance her features. Others proclaimed she was a promo for the coming Sims 9 game. Yet others just said that her hair was goals and her outfits were fire.
“The second-wave feminist in me was enraged - teenagers don’t even know what a real woman looks like anymore!” They are more used to computer augmentation than to the texture of human skin! But something about this argument, the moralizing and the judgment, seemed disingenuous or, worse, basic. I knew Miquela wasn’t real, that her hair was a smooth auburn helmet and her eyes were looking toward nothing, but she mesmerized me. I could look at the same picture for eons, trying to fill in the spaces I couldn’t see, to imagine her legs tucked under her, on the bed where she dreamed her dreamless Westworld sleep. My inner Nancy Drew needed to understand who Miquela was and how she was operated. Somewhere between surgery two and surgery three, I broke my elbow and kept on scrolling, iPhone resting on my sling, analyzing Miquela’s low breasts and delicate wrists while I sat in an overflowing bath. I read everything I could online, but even Reddit was absent of any compelling theories. Chelsea Jones at Dazed Digital offered a smart, academic take: “Lil Miquela is a female cyborg, the Android’s android, whose servitude is confined to our phone screen, and a specific space therein. Miquela is one that satisfies more completely and wholly the desire you’d have for an Instagram Girl - because she can’t live beyond projection. You get every part of her on your screen and can just as easily erase her by scrolling up.” This was a thoughtful and nuanced meditation on the lure of the Instagram model (especially one who couldn’t fuck up or
pose wrong), but it wasn’t doing what I needed: explaining who the f*ck ‘Miq’ was and what she wanted with us. My first play was to contact everyone I knew who had appeared on Miquela’s page, or who knew someone who had. Miquela has clear connections to Los Angeles indie fashion and music culture, often standing next to real people or referencing them in her supercool-slangy captions, which made her accessible, like she was a friend of a friend. But as I asked around, my sources were tight-lipped. “She’s a real girl who uses technology to hide her face, a Sia type thing,” said one acquaintance. Another told me she might be a failing music manager’s pop-stardom experiment. Another said, simply, “I can’t tell you.” My determination to “bust” the story only became more aggressive when she started liking my pictures, commenting: “cutie!” under an image of me in a tank top and choker and even direct messaging me to comment on a table of Japanese - inspired tarot cards I’d posted: “I need a read, plz!” She knew I was onto her and she was taunting me. Gently. Adorably. Dressed in Alexander Wang with a slash of liquid eyeliner, Miquela was my white whale. The next step was to reach out to some of Miquela’s most frequent commenters, asking simply, “Who and what do you think Miquela is?” “She is a real person, but the one she shows on Instagram is a CG rendering of herself, it’s an art project,” said @larsonisst, echoing a version of the Sia theory. @imen280903 “found it really weird and kinda annoying that I can’t tell if she’s real or not.” She DMed me that she’s asked tons of followers and no one will confirm or deny Miquela’s existence. She said that if Miquela does turn out to be real, she’ll be really impressed by how fake she’s made herself look. I noticed one of my girl’s most frequent defenders was an account with the handle @eatingboys, who boasts 17.6k followers to Miquela’s 125k. Her page is a carefully collected mixture of appropriately moody innocence-lost images (stills of Sherilyn Fenn from Twin Peaks lying back in teen angst contemplation, uniformed school girls with their underwear around their ankles) and videos of a girl, her face made cartoonishly childlike using some kind of challenging Japanese app, as she strips slowly to a matronly pink bra or blinks, flirty but anxious. Her captions nod to Catholic worship and letting men jerk off to her on Periscope while she weeps, painting a picture of a tortured sexual entity making (glowing, pink) light of her own dysfunction. “There is an Instagram subculture of girls with alter egos. We only really exist on the Internet. Lil Miq is sort of our mom,” she told me via direct message. I asked her: But how can she be your mom if you don’t know what or who she is? “She feels very real,” she said. @eatingboys insists they talk, affirm, and support each other just like any pair of girlfriends would do. But does she care who’s on the other side? Maybe not, because Lil Miquela has been an agent of liberation for @eatingboys. “I work in a male dominated field,” she told me. She’s always covered her body in oversized sweatshirts, hidden her sexuality. None of the people at her
job know about her social media (when they ask, she says she’s just not into the Internet), and so her account serves as a place where she feels free and safe despite all the warnings we’ve been given about making friends online. She describes her account as a high schooler’s locker-room shrine to a teen idol, only the idol is herself. She’s got friends (online friends, natch) working a similar angle. * It’s hard to separate the aesthetic from the message: the girls are dressed like centerfold fantasies. Their mission is self-actualization, a sense they are their own heroines, freedom. And Miquela, unbound from sexist office politics or true rejection by dint of having no real body, is the freest of them all. There, in the iPhone-lit semi-dark of 4 a.m., I found Miquela. And I returned to her, again and again, trying to understand. And unlike the women wearing reconstructed vintage to Coachella, she didn’t make me feel ancient or weak or impossibly sad. Because, like me, she didn’t have a body. She was everywhere and nowhere, making herself known only after the fact, appearing places she never seemed to be like an Aura photograph. On the one hand I wanted to out her, to be the Andrea Dworkin hero, demented and screaming, who explained reality to the tweens who will someday rebuild our world. On the other, every time Miquela appeared in my feed I felt happy. I was glad she was doing well. I liked her new skirt. I was thrilled she’d made it to Art Basel. She was my friend. I did end up getting the backstory on Miquela, at 8 a.m., at a random café in Hollywood, surrounded by exhausted parents who didn’t know or care that an avatar was haunting the hippest enclaves of their city. I got the details of her identity and the plans for the continuation of that identity. If it hadn’t been radical, compelling, and distinctly feminist, I wouldn’t feel the need to protect it. But there’s no reason for me to ruin her for you. She is not yet ruined for me. Today I’m having a down day. I’m in bed, trying to meditate away the referred pain and also the guilt that comes with admitting what your body can’t do. But in Miquela terms, I am everywhere: A Drake concert, the farmers’ market, a beach. I am an idea, a tank top, a body without limits. I am whole, except for this irrelevant flesh.
*An earlier paragraph about @lunalovebad was removed when her followers viewed it as a critique of her online persona. Lena isn’t interested in writing about women in a way that makes them feel misunderstood. Lena Dunham is trying to understand her own Instagram persona. Is it sexy aunt? Political toddler? Lying c*nt? You decide!
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Brief documentary that brings new light to exactly how sex sells when it comes to photography, and how females out there might also be dreaming to false images when they go on ‘this diet and that diet’ to get the bodies that some females seemingly possess.
Dee-Dee the barber is a selfproclaimed “booty expert,” who covers his wall with magazine cut-outs of women. But when Dee-Dee is introduced to the art of media manipulation he may never look at beauty the same way again.
“In a barbershop in Brooklyn, Dee-Dee admiringly looks at his collection of celebrity women, tacked up on the wall, in all their smooth, silky glory. In his opinion, these are women who are perfect. They’ve got no flaws. They are goddesses. So, begins an absorbing and sometimes humorous twelve minutes, where we not only hear from Dee-Dee, as well as other barbers, but also a computer airbrush and touch-up artist, where they reveal how they do what they do. As one of the guys puts it, “(Dee-Dee’s) been having wet dreams to false images.”
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MARNIE SIMPSON: ‘PLASTIC SURGERY HAS RUINED MY LOOKS’ Review by Jack White - 6:00 am - 31/01/17 “From the way she stands, to the marks on her body she obsesses over, even down to the type of underwear that she will and won’t wear, we’ve never seen this side to the 25-year-old. Marnie is certainly no stranger to going under the surgeon’s knife, having had liposuction, a nose job, lip fillers and a boob job in the past.”
“For someone who spends a lot of her time naked on TV, she doesn’t seem fully comfortable in the studio. But Marnie, who has been diagnosed with body dysmorphia, told ‘Closer’ magazine in a new interview that while she couldn’t recognise she was doing anything wrong as she did it, she now realises she has over done things.”
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HAVE YOU EVER FELT PRESSURED BY A MAN TO CHANGE YOUR APPEARANCE? My boyfriends have always been really supportive of how I look. It’s just my mentality.
ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE WAY YOU LOOK NOW? I don’t think I’ll ever be happy with how I look. I only see faults when I look in the mirror, I never see any of the positives. I have nice hair, but that’s about it.
DO YOU THINK YOU’RE ADDICTED TO SURGERY? I’ve got body dysmorphia. I don’t know what’s triggered it but I think it must be surgery. After changing one thing about myself I’ll look in the mirror and see a fault I’d never noticed before.
CAN YOU GET CONTROL OF THAT? At the moment the only thing stopping me from getting more surgery is the fact that I know I’ll never be happy with the way I look, so I becoming a waste of money. I’m trying to focus my attention on more important things, like buying a house. Nude photo shoot from Marnie Simpson, in which she covered her insecurities whilst looking upset about her body image.
WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE TRULY HAPPY WITH THE WAY YOU LOOK? It was long before I was on the TV, when I was about 19. Before going on Geordie Shore I was dead confident, but I remember seeing myself on TV for the first time and thinking: ‘I’m sure I’m better looking than that’.
ARE YOU PLANNING ON HAVING MORE SURGERY? Right now I’m obsessed with my chin; I want it shaved down. I can’t remember ever looking at my chin and thinking there was something wrong with it, but I’ve convinced myself it’s grown, I can’t explain it.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE GIRLS WHO REGARD YOU AS A ROLE MODEL? I’m not happy that girls look up to me and I worry about being seen as a role model. People shouldn’t look up to me or copy me. I don’t think they should look up to any of us on Geordie Shore, it’s just a carnage TV show.
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Terri Timme, Kenosha, United States, 1 year ago
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Anyone that believes that her body and any photos taken of her are “all Natural” is out of touch with reality entirely.
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Agentalbert, San Antonio, 1 year ago The original pictures look better. They should have just left them alone. Nothing wrong with her figure at all.
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Common Sense, Footloose, 1 year ago The only thing that surprises me about this story is that anyone is naive enough to believe that all photos of “celebrities” especially naked female ones AREN’T Photoshopped!
Mark, London, United Kingdom, 1 year ago This photo-manipulation crap needs to stop
BrendaHurley, London, United Kingdom, 1 year ago Not a fan but why photoshop the photo in the first place? She looks amazing.
Emt, Golden Triangle, United States, 1 year ago Find an image in a magazine of any celebrity that hasn’t been photoshopped.
Anna, London, United Kingdom, 1 year ago I understand when she gets photoshopped for publications, but why photoshop your personal photoshoot?
Photo shoot from Kim Kardashian, in which she covered herself in paint and posed nude in a desert.
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Kim had talked about embracing her body insecurities in the reality show footage, which aired in May.
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Fans were slamming her on social media for being hypocritical and relying on a false body image.
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People were slamming Kim for putting out false images of herself to the world.
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And in effect, harming the self-esteem and body image of other females.
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The reality star, who was not pregnant at the time of the shoot, appeared to have been slimmed down in the retouched black and white images, compared to the colour footage of her from the show ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’.
Kim talked about the nude photo shoot as a way to embrace her body insecurities.
FIGHTING IT Many people didn’t understand why Kim agreed to have the doctored photos released, when she looked beautiful in the original footage from the shoot.
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ADELES VOGUE MAGAZINE COVER CAUSES CONTROVERSY. Review by Gabriel Bell - February 12, 2016 & Karen Anderson, WBZ-TV - February 14, 2012
Yes, Adele looks amazing on the cover of Vogue’s March 2016 issue. It’s her second time leading off the luxury fashion bible. That said, it’s also pretty much impossible to ignore just how much Photoshopping went on. What’s odd about the whole thing is that the digital wizardry seems not to actually slim or beautify the already very beautiful and very body-positive Adele. Rather, it all seems to be there to just make her look... different. Not, like, bad different or even good different. Just different. Matter of fact, using Photoshop to make people look different—just plain, old different - seems to be going around a bit lately. Anne Becker, an expert in the media and body image at Harvard Medical School, says this controversy can be an opportunity for parents to talk with their children.
“It forces the conversation between parents and kids about what images are real, what are realistic, what are attainable.”said Becker, who is a Professor of Health and Global Medicine.
She says kids are influenced by the images in the media, as well as by the friends their friends see. “What is concerning about images that are altered is that it sets unrealistic expectations for girls and young women. If they are not yet sophisticated media consumers, there may be some dissonance between what they feel they can live up to, and what they can actually attain or what’s actually healthy to attain,” said Becker. Becker says that can lead to negative feelings and dissatisfaction with their bodies. We have reached out to both Adele and Vogue for comments. So far, they have not responded. Though, Adele did address her image during an interview with Anderson Cooper Sunday on 60 Minutes.
“I’ve never seen magazine covers and music videos and been like, I need to look like that if I want to be a success. Never, I don’t want to be some Skinny Minnie… I don’t want people confusing what it is I’m about.” Adele said.
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Airbrushing? Photoshop? Fans are speaking out about the latest image of Adele on the cover of Vogue...
“It looks like she’s been enhanced,” Anjulie Mittleman of Medford said.
“I don’t think it’s a good thing,” said Marion Martin. “I definitely think she has been a little bit Photoshopped. It doesn’t look like she looked at the Grammys - if you want to be a little curvy she should be able to do that and not be scrutinized,” said Anna Shanley of Medford. People were also writing in to Vogue Magazine as well. “Thanks for this excellent interview, the best one I’ve read so far, that depicts her not only as a singer but as a person. However, the Cover photo is the opposite contrary, that’s the worst picture of Adele I’ve seen. Frankly, I can’t seem relate to it and I just hope that it hasn’t been much photoshopped. Adele is a larger than life personality and this just doesn’t do her justice.” one reader wrote online.
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“It’s not the woman we just saw. I do have to say however, that it is, the whole spread is a work of art. There’s a lot of beauty going on, there’s a lot of work with the photographer, and the stylist and everything that went into it. But, what the effect of this issue does to millions of women and children that have really followed Adele with her music career, all of a sudden sees her in a very altered state. That’s what I’m concerned about, the retouching went past the line.” Said Emme.
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Buses of Vancity, 3 years ago
This photo alteration sh*t needs to stop
Alyssa Dunehew, 5 years ago
Props to Adele for all of her accomplishments and for being a “real woman” :) Vogue needs to rethink their strategies, though. No one wants to see these obviously altered images of a woman who is quite okay with who she is and how she looks.
Explosive Candy, 5 years ago
“Don’t look, I haven’t been photoshopped yet” is the new “Don’t look i haven’t put on my makeup yet”
Melissa botero, 5 years ago Doesn’t look like the same woman! But like they said, Adele had zero control over what happened with the photos!
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OUTRAGED LITTLE MIX FANS SPOT STRANGE WARPED GRAPHICS IN NEW ‘TOUCH’ MUSIC VIDEO THAT REVEAL SINGERS HAVE BEEN ‘SLIMMED DOWN’. Review by Naomi Bartram 8:30 am - 30/01/17
Little mix fans were furious after it appeared singer Jesy Nelson had been Photoshopped to look slimmer in their new music Video ‘Touch’. One fan tweeted at the director of ‘Touch’, Julien Christian Lutz -
“If the video was manipulated, it is unclear if the popstar knew. Jesy, 25, who’s faced comments about her weight since finding fame on The X Factor in 2011 - said “she’s totally confident in her body” and -
“You really can see the stripes bending where they’ve tried to Photoshop Jesy, so you’ve got some explaining to do!”
“As we’ve got older, we genuinely don’t give a shit anymore.”
More fans followed suit, posting screengrabs showing the straight stripes in the background of the new video seeming to bend around Jesy, which sometimes indicates Photoshopping. Starting a hashtag #justiceforJesy, furious supporters let rip -
“Why would anyone, especially Jesy, be fine with Photoshop? She is confident in her own body.” Wrote one. “Jesy is a queen & should be treated as such. Her body is goals! Photoshopping a gorgeous figure like hers is the stupidest thing.” Wrote another.
[It’s] hard to take when you’re young, but now we’re more confident. We’re happy to be how we are, and don’t care if we put on a couple of pounds. Curves are really in at the moment - I love that they’re celebrated. You should celebrate any size. “If you can rock your body with confidence, and you’re happy with your own skin, there’s nothing sexier. I feel like we’re all in a really good place with how we feel about ourselves.”
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The Establishment, London, 2 months ago If little mix are so concerned about their figures perhaps instead of perpetuating a lie they should just dress a little differently.
Chumps, Sutton Coldfield, 2 months ago
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I feel a bit stupid because i didn’t know you could photoshop videos to make people look slimmer, i thought you could only alter photos!
Davicker, nr Derby, 2 months ago I think the term is ‘Re-Touched’
Thompa, Newcastle, 2 months ago These girls are massive role models to young girls, they could make huge statements by saying it doesn’t matter how you look etc. Disappointing.
DJBay, London, 2 months ago
Screen grab 1: Jesy’s waist seems to have been slimmed down.
Its become rather normal in the music video industry, sadly.
Big_geebles, bagend, 2 months ago As if they have any say in what is done .....
IanLBet, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2 months ago Tons of make up... fine, photoshop... NO NO NO, perfect the way she is!
BACKLASH Outraged fans branded Little Mix bosses ‘disgusting’ after spotting distortions in the In Touch video that appear to slim down the girls’ figures.
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Concerned fans stressed that Jesy’s body was ‘perfect’ the way it was.
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Eagle-eyed fans clocked the bizarre tell-tale curves in the funky background particularly around Jesy Nelson’s thighs and waist.
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The 31-year-old reality star posted an Instagram picture, showing off her toned tummy as she pulled down her gray leggings and snapped a selfie in the mirror.
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However, fans immediately noticed the pic had been Photoshopped and began calling her out for it. Thus, Khloe fessed up to editing the pic and responded by posting the original image shortly thereafter. Now she’s revealing why she used Photoshop in the first place. Khloe took to her app and explained that she was in a car accident when she was 16-years-old, and she injured her knee very badly.
“To this day, I remember the exact streets (Ventura Blvd. and Coldwater Canyon). I was speeding and the other car ran a stop sign. I was wearing my seatbelt but the strap was under my armpit,” “I was in a small Mercedes and it compacted in the wreck. My head and upper body went through the windshield and my legs were stuck under the steering wheel.” She recalled. She’s had several reconstructive surgeries on her leg following the accident and is often forced to wear a knee brace while working out. Also, due to the surgeries, her right leg is much smaller than her left.
“Whenever I post a picture of my legs on Instagram, everyone comments on how f*cked up my knees look,” “My right leg is an inch and a half thinner than my left because my muscles deteriorated and never recovered.” She explained.
This is why she Photoshopped the ab picture.
“This is why she Photoshopped the ab picture. “Yes, I did Photoshop it, but I was trying to make my thinner leg look bigger to match my other leg!!! All I want are big, thick thighs and I hate how skinny my legs are.” Do YOU believe that was the only reason why?
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Thenextoprah, London, 1 year ago
How can she get mad at her fans for calling her out on this when she is very happy to take their money for her healthy lifestyle books and apps based on altered images!?
Jub-Jub, Australia, 1 year ago
Instead of calling people petty maybe you should stop lying?
Stephanie, United States, 1 year ago Why is it when Khloe is caught in a lie she lashes out at people and tries to make it their fault? If she can’t take the heat than she shouldn’t lie about stuff.
Someguygettinby, United States, 1 year ago She lies, we’re the problem....some one help me out here...
Lona, Midwest USA, 1 year ago The original image: Here is the photo that has not been reworked
If you want to Photoshop your photos, fine. Just don’t be surprised if someone points it out. Calling people “haters” for pointing the deception out is childish. Own up to using photo enhancement tools and move on.
Knotcool, greenock, 1 year ago She just doesn’t get it!!!! It’s not because of jealousy... it’s because the public are smart and see through her blatant distortion. What was wrong with the original...nothing, but she felt the need to share an untrue image. It’s on you Khloe, don’t like the comments don’t post the pics.
Alicekate, United Kingdom, 1 year ago You can’t brag about your body and the hard work you’ve put in...then photoshop it!! That’s ridiculous.
KA1, california, 1 year ago if she was truly happy with the way she looked she wouldn’t have to “alter” her pics...
The altered image: Created on ‘Facetune’
MrLA_Mcarthey, United Kingdom, 1 year ago Wait... ! Didn’t she “write” a book on how to love your body?
Just Saying, A part of the world., 1 year ago Khloe: if you don’t want ‘petty haters’ calling you out on Photoshopping your selfies - don’t Photoshop them.
“PHOTO MANIPULATION, ONCE THE PRESERVE OF A SMALL NUMBER OF AIRBRUSH-EQUIPPED ARTISTS HAS BECOME COMMONPLACE IN THE FASHION, PUBLISHING AND ADVERTISING INDUSTRIES THANKS TO THE INTRODUCTION OF PHOTO-EDITING SOFTWARE SUCH AS PHOTOSHOP. (THIS PROGRAM, FIRST INTRODUCED IN 1990, HAS BECOME SO WIDELY USED THAT “PHOTOSHOPPING” IS OFTEN USED AS A SYNONYM FOR PHOTO MANIPULATION.) AS A RESULT, HEAVILY RETOUCHED PHOTOS HAVE BECOME NEARLY UNIVERSAL: A SINGLE ISSUE OF VOGUE WAS FOUND TO CONTAIN 144 MANIPULATED IMAGES, INCLUDING THE COVER.” - Digital & Media Literacy » Media Issues » Body Image » Photo Manipulation. - http://mediasmarts.ca/body-image/body-image-photo-manipulation