Retouching is pretty much expected whenever a celebrity or model are doing some kind of photoshoot, it’s becoming more frequent and some celebrities claim they hate it although I think they only hate it when they get caught. Photoshop has made teenagers go under the knife to try and be like their favorite celebrities. Well here are some of the most ridiculous retouching scandals over the past few years.
Kate Winslet
In January 2003, 27-year-old actress Kate Winslet was livid over a slimmed-down image of her already-long legs and board-flat stomach on the cover (and inside, pictured here) of British GQ. Winslet called the retouching “excessive” – noting that “I do not look like that, and more importantly, I don’t desire to look like that.” Not that that mattered to GQ. Said editor Dylan Jones: “We do that for everyone, whether they are a size six or a size 12.”
Katie Couric
No, Katie Couric didn’t discover a miracle diet. But over a four-month period in 2006, as the anchor prepared to take over the CBS Evening News, it suddenly appeared as if the 53-year-old had shrunk to a third of her body weight. The photo at left, snapped in May, was widely circulated to the media as an official CBS publicity shot. Then, in September, a slimmed-down Couric, her face and waistline radically trimmed, appeared in CBS’s in-house magazine, Watch! When the media picked up on the alteration, the network said the retouching job had been the work of an “overzealous” employee. Couric, meanwhile, said she liked the original better. “There’s more of me to love,” she joked.
Beyonce
The many shades of Beyonce, as evidenced by (from left) a 2008 L’Oreal ad, a 2007 cover shot from Joy magazine, and a 2009 image on the cover of Russian Glamour.
Andy Roddick
Men’s Fitness wants to know: How do you build BIG arms in five easy moves? When it comes to Andy Roddick, apparently the answer has more to do with Photoshop than tennis. After posing for this shot in early 2007, tennis superstar Roddick reportedly did a double take when he saw the magazine while walking through a Rome airport – noting that his biceps had been blown into “22-inch guns” and a prominent birthmark on his right arm had been removed. And while a Men’s Fitness spokesman responded to the scandal by saying he didn’t see “the big issue,” Roddick joked that he was “pretty sure I’m not as fit as the [cover] suggests.” Does Hulk Hogan want his arms back?
Faith Hill
Redbook couldn’t have been pleased when an unretouched image of Faith Hill, featured on the magazine’s July 2007 cover, was leaked to the bloggers at Jezebel. In an annotated before-and-after shot, the bloggers pinpointed 11 digital alterations the already picture-perfect Hill underwent before she hit newsstands – next to a cover line teasing the “56 ways to unleash your sexy side.” (Do 55 of them involve airbrushing?) Redbook was accused of contributing to an unattainable body ideal, but editor Stacy Morrison said the picture was “completely in line with industry standards.”
Jessica Alba
From hips to breasts to erasing even the slightest thigh muscle, even Jessica Alba’s body wasn’t good enough for this 2008 Campari calendar. Need we say more?
Real Women
Remember Dove’s 2005 “Real Beauty” campaign – the one that featured a room full of underwear-clad “real” women, love handles and all? The ads took heat because they were created to promote a new line of skin-firming creams but were lauded for their use of authentic, curvy women in print. Which was great for Dove – until a prominent fashion retoucher who’d worked with the company was quoted in The New Yorker describing the “challenge” of retouching the women to keep their “skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive.” Dove immediately denied that the photos had been retouched – and the retoucher said he’d been taken out of context. But in many ways, the damage was done.
Kim Kardashian
“So what: I have a little cellulite. What curvy girl doesnt!?” That was Kim Kardashian’s response to an unretouched image of her that was mistakenly posted on Complex magazine’s Web site in May 2009. The snapshot – which was quickly replaced by the Photoshopped version – showed that Kim’s waist had been cinched, her thighs slimmed, and her cellulite removed.
Madonna
In April, the blogs went into a minor frenzy after an unretouched version of Madonna’s “Hard Candy” promo shot, released in anticipation of her new album, hit the Web. In it, it’s clear just how far her retouchers went to morph the already good-looking 51-year-old mom into a glowing, ageless wax doll.
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson looks trim and adorable in this September issue of Self – under the headline “Total Body Confidence” – except that her “confident” body has been digitally slimmed down. (The image on right was taken around the same time as her magazine shoot.) Two Self editors explained that the cover was not “journalism,” but “meant to inspire women who want to be their best.” Some message.
Lauren Manhattan
This magazine ad for Ralph Lauren, which spurred protests outside Lauren’s Manhattan headquarters in 2009, features 23-year-old model Filippa Hamilton looking positively non-human. At 5 feet 8 and 120 pounds, Hamilton (pictured in another Lauren ad at left) later said that the brand – which ultimately apologized for the image – had quietly fired her for being overweight.
Demi Moore
Demi Moore has long seemed to elude age, while denying that plastic surgery has had anything to do with it. But when the 47-year-old mom appeared on the cover of W Magazine in November 2009, her image sparked widespread discussion. W was adamant that photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot did nothing “unusual or out of the ordinary on Demi Moore,” but many commentators noted that the huge chunk missing from her hip implies otherwise.
Crystal Renn
She is the industry’s best-known plus-size model, and yet Crystal Renn says that she’s constantly bombarded by the same response when she meets people who know her profession: “I thought you’d be bigger.” At 5 feet 9 and a size 12, Renn will defy any notion that retouching is reserved for making women look smaller: her curves are often enhanced to make the “plus-size” model look bigger. “Because I am a plus-size model, they like to make an example,” she told The New York Times. “They see a roll, and they say, ‘Oooh, a roll!’ And they focus on it.”
What makes c-list Khloe Kardashian Odom more entitled to meeting President Barack Obama than me? Oh just the fact that she is married to an L.A. Lakers player.
Khloe got to meet Obama because she escorted her husband, Lamar Odom, to the White House yesterday to celebrate the Lakers winning the 2009 NBA championship.
Obama was then given a Lakers jersey with “Obama #1″ on the back of it, before he met Khloe, Kobe Bryant and his wife Vaness Bryant.
Khloe took to her twitter account to post about the day she said “Yay! Heading to DC to meet my baby!!!” and then wrote “Such an amazing day! I just meet Obama with my husband! :)” After that she tweeted a photo of herself sitting in the white house (notice the Bill Clinton painting behind her!)
Aside from hoping Reggie Bush wins the Superbowl so she can get a marriage proposal, I’m sure Kim Kardashian is now hoping he wins so that she can meet the president too. She must be seething with jealousy over her sister Khloe.
source: Khloe Kardashian Meets President Obama! [Us Magazine]
Kim Kardashian and her boyfriend Reggie Bush are apparently set to become engaged, but only if the Saints win the Super Bowl.
It seems that Kim’s jealousy over her sister Kourtney Kardashian’s new baby and Khloe Kardashian’s marriage to Lamar Odom has finally gotten the better of her and she has convinced Reggie to propose.
Kim told a radio hose that Reggie said he would marry her ass but this will only happen if The New Orleans Saints win the Super Bowl, the only way she could get Reggie to agree to marry her is for him to win? And they said romance was dead.
I hope the bosses at the Saints are going to be making sure Reggie Bush doesn’t start throwing games so he can escape this wedding pact, then again they probably would rather lose the Super Bowl than have to deal with the Kardashian family every game.
I can already hear the reality show cameras for E! start rolling and Kris Kardashian to be organizing every endorsement possible so the wedding is free.
source: Kim Kardashian to Wed if Saints Win Super Bowl [Allie Is Wired]
TGIF! And to celebrate we have some of the funniest celebrity quotes this week. For starters, we’ve got Conan O’Brien, Sandra Bullock’s revenge and Channing Tatum’s penis!
“Meryl [Streep]’s gonna win, and I’m gonna take her down. When she walks up there, you’re gonna see my heel come off, and I’m gonna be like, ‘Whoo [mimics throwing]!’ This heel is gonna take Meryl Streep. She’s gonna feel no pain after I fling that at her.”
– Sandra Bullock, planning her defense tactics if she loses the Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical film this Sunday, on Tavis Smiley
“I could…leave television altogether, and work in a classier business with better people, like hardcore porn.”
– Conan O’Brien, making light of his commitment to leave The Tonight Show if NBC moves it to a 12:05 a.m. timeslot to accommodate Jay Leno, during his nightly monologue
“I gained seven pounds of love weight.”
– Newlywed Khloe Kardashian, clarifying that she’s not pregnant, to “People”
“Now my penis is fantastic! One hundred percent recovered. Put me back in the game, Coach.”
– Channing Tatum, rejoicing after his privates made a full recovery following a scalding incident on the set of his upcoming film The Eagle of the Ninth, to “Details”
“After a breakup, a friend of mine Swarovski-crystalled my precious lady. It shined like a disco ball so I have a whole chapter in there on how women should vagazzle their vajayjays.”
– Jennifer Love Hewitt, giving a sneak preview of the advice offered in her new dating guide “The Day I Shot Cupid”, on “Lopez Tonight”
“I was telling him that last night, ‘If we ever broke up … the next guy is going to have a really hard time, because your body is so amazing!’”
– Kim Kardashian, speculating on who could follow in the very buff footsteps of current boyfriend, NFL star Reggie Bush, on the Dallas-based radio show Kidd Kraddick in the Morning
“What 15-year-old boy wouldn’t want girls chasing after them all day long?”
– Tween sensation Justin Bieber, enjoying his new heartthrob status, to “People”
“I’ll take the stretch marks. I’ll take the sagging boobs. I’ll take the cellulite I can never get rid of.”
– Jessica Alba, taking the bad with the good for the miracle of pregnancy, to “Self”
“I know music. I know entertainment. I know eyeliner.”
– Idol runner-up Adam Lambert, on “Fuse TV”
“I am like Mariah Carey f—-d up right now.”
– George Clooney, referencing the singer’s tipsy award show speech as he took to the podium at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards
This time, Kim and sister Khloe Kardashian put on their phone sex voices and are using sex to sell something different: QuickTrim diet pills.
Seriously, this looks like a commercial for one of those late night dating chatlines. Tell me I’m wrong. And they want to make it look like Khloe lost 800 tons of weight for this mess? Unbelievable.
What do you use your twitter page for? I’m going to guess it’s for personal usage but maybe a little business or something. Either way I’m sure you’re most likely not receiving any money for your tweets, unlike some celebrities who are getting up to $10,000 per tweet.
Yes you read that right, some of these people are getting $10,000 and upwards for endorsing products on their twitter page.
It’s obvious the likes of Kim Kardashian receives money for her tweets because every second tweet is about how she loves new products and urges everybody to try them out. In fact I just went to her page and seen 3 things that she is obvious getting paid to promote.
According to Ad.ly, a company that gets people on twitter with advertising partners, celebrities earn all this money just to post a couple of lines.
Greg Grunberg and Samantha Ronosn both donate their money to charities while the others pocket the money, these people include Nicole Richie, Brooke Burke, Channing Tatum and a whole lot more. You can view a full list of celebrities using this here.
Sean Rad, CEO of the advertising company, says that Britney Spears and P. Diddy would be the dream people to have with the amount of followers they have. He also says the could earn a whopping $20,000 per tweet.
A new law says that celebrities and normal folk must declare all money they earn on blogs or social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. If not they could face a fine up to $11,000.
source: Do Celebs Get Paid to Tweet About Products? [E! Online]
Everything or tweet that comes out of Kim Kardashian’s yap seems to be selling something to the poor public. Mostly men are sucked in to her BS because of the way she looks, But I ain’t buying it. And I’m not buying these crappy Carl’s Jr. salads, either. So suck on that, Kim.
In the new ad, Kim says, “I’m such a neat freak. Everything’s gotta be clean, crisp and tasty.” She says all of this while the camera pans to her boobs and mouth while suckling a piece of salad. When a drip falls onto her, she hops in the bathtub naked.
Then, she says, “And while the best things in life are messy, it’s fun to get clean.”
Sex sells. Right fellas?
source: Kim Kardashian’s Carl’s Jr Ad: Salad In Bed, Bubble Bath (VIDEO) – [huffington post]
