Skinny Betty
Manolo says, first the photoshoppers came for Katie Couric, and now they have reductified the luscious America Ferrera!
When will this madness stop?
65 Responses to “Skinny Betty”
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September 6, 2007
[...] Via Manolo’s Ayyyy blog, we learn that this is a photo of America Ferrera as she actually is, with her super smile, beautiful skin, curvalicious bod, and aura of sweetness and confidence. [...]
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September 6, 2007
[...] Skinny Betty Filed under: Uncategorized — cleek @ 4:50 pm [...]
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September 7, 2007
[...] post of a few months back. Nothing like getting a peek behind the curtain, right? Well, here’s another one for ya. Poor America. Via Boing Boing. [...]
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September 11, 2007
[...] the shit out of her. Francesca will not go into the horrible quality of the photoshopping. Please go to Ayyyy and read the comments in which Manolo’s noble readers wonder aloud just how freakish are [...]
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September 28, 2007
[...] the cover of the new issue of Glamour is a totally noticeable (and horribly done) photoshopped picture of America Ferrera. It also says “1st Annual Figure Flattery Issue” and “the secret reasons women [...]
That’s not even *good* photoshopping.
Looks like they stuck her head on someone elses body. So unnatural…
This reminds me of a tv show where a fashion magazine wants to photoshop the images of a famous actress that has put on weight but the actress refuses, in part due to the principled stance taken by the quirky by intelligent secretary . . .
Hmm . . . what WAS that show?
Stupid Glamour. Now her head doesn’t look right.
Ugh!
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Stupid Glamour indeed. It looks downright freakish. She looks much better in the second pic.
Her arms look like they’re straight off a plastic Barbie doll. The whole picture looks unreal.
Egads, that is just horrifying! And what a lovely message it sends to the young ladies reading the magazine…
You’d think they’d have at least given her a body with the same length arms as her real body!
The slightly unnatural twist of the neck remined me immediately of Botticelli’s Venus, including the way her hair flows.
http://www.riversidebook.com/images/8botticelli.jpg
BTW, I don’t think it is a montage. The figure seems to have the same lines, only she is slimmer. Maybe she lost weight between the two photo sessions.
Poor girl. How bad did that make her feel when she saw it? No wonder celebs are so screwed up. Makes you *almost* sorry for the poor dears. But not quite.
milimamma…oh the irony.
I just noticed it’s their “1st annual figuire flattery” issue!
Contents:
1. Pay for massive amounts of airbrushing and/or
2. Paste your head on another’s body.
There, now there is no need for a 2nd annual issue.
That looks horrible and makes me feel sad for her boobs. From a D+ to a small smooshed B in one fell swoop.
Ayyy! If that is photoshopped then the lovely Miss Ferrera should take a leaf out of the book of the beautious Kate Winslet and sue somebody!
her arms look like bendy straws, or plastic tubing. so unnatural! just let her be her adorable curvy self!
How sad. This certainly isn’t what I want to see. We saw her in person at the Target in West Hollywood about 6 months ago and she was normal sized…perfectly normal. It’s sad they seem to think we want to see a lolly pop America.
She looks like S-E-X. Sign me up for that diet!
This is just another disgusting example of what is “acceptable” beauty and what is not. ABC Network has deemed her attractive enough to be put on television, so why can’t Glamour put her, as-is, on a cover? I submitted a nasty comment to Glamour, and hopefully everyone else will too.
It seems that they missed the point of her TV show. I believe we call that dramatic irony.
Which is a shame too. America Ferrara looks great the way she is. It’s fairly insulting to imply that the paper-thin monstrosity on the left is an improvement
Here’s the message it sends to all the young ladies who read the magazine:
“STEP. AWAY. FROM. THE. CHEEZEBURGER. SWEETHEART! Our artists are getting frikin’ carpel tunnel here trying to thin you folks up enough to actually publish your phatographs!
Aaaayeeee. Indeedie.
Good lord – there was nothing wrong with her to begin with. Stupid fashion magazines. Believe me, I know from fat, and fat is not what she is. She looks like a NORMAL PERSON, and they should have let her continue to look that way.
People:
Let Americans feel that they need to be skinny. A lot of you feel its ok to be fat!
Red blooded guy input:
Girl on Left – yawn, bowl of Special K
Girl on Right – yowsa, hot tamale
Really; hand on the hip, shoulders back, grrrr!
Well, I am canceling my subscription to Glamour today! Oh wait, I don’t read Glamour.
Someone actually reads that schtuff?!
And people wonder why women have body issues?
huge improvement. lol
America is SO beautiful as she naturally is – why would Glamour do that? Until these photoshopped celebs to take a stance and refuse to allow “fashion” magazines to alter their looks in this way, it will never change. And thirdly, as scary as this whole ‘trend’ is, even scarier is the message that it’s sending to our already troubled youth – female AND male.
Glad somebody posted about this. I was at the grocery store yesterday and my neck almost snapped in two as I whipped past the magazine rack. Sad commentary and as somebody else said, not even very good Photoshopping (is that a word?)…
As a woman, I’m furious that Glamour thought they could make America Ferrera look “better” by digitally altering her appearence to make her look skinny. As a geek, I am horrified at the poor quality of the digital alteration.
I sent the following email to Glamour:
Are you people complete idiots? America Ferrera is a beautiful woman and your obviously badly photoshopped cover picture is an insult. She does not have a giraffe’s neck nor plastic doll arms. She has a wonderful, curvaceous body with full breasts and hips. Real women have curves!!! What you have done is degrading.
Here’s their response:
Dear Cheryl,
Thanks so much for your letter about our October cover photo of America
Ferrera. Let me assure you, we did not digitally slim her; as she
mentions
in the interview, she wears a size 6/8 on the bottom, ten on the top.
You
are seeing her as she actually appears. That said, we deeply value your
feedback. Be sure to take a look inside at the photos of America and
let us
know what you think.
Sincerely,
Margie Guerra
Reader Services
Obviously Margie hasn’t looked inside the magazine.
I got the exact same response as Cheryl, word for word… except, interestingly enough, mine came signed “Lynda Laux-Bachand, Reader Services Editor”, no mention of Marie Guerra. It’s clearly a stock reply, they must have gotten a few letters about it.
ang . . . thanks for noticing. The irony IS thick.
And your comment was hilarious. Viva la Photoshop! Now if we can just fix our live images . . . maybe we can hire people to walk before us with fun-house “skinny mirrors.”
If she’s size 6/8 on the bottom and 10 on top, then I am a chipmunk. BULLSHIT!
The cover lies with its image and she lies in words inside the magazine, so she can’t complain. NO WAY is she a size 6 or 8 on the bottom. LIAR!
I received the same stock e-mail from Glamour. I have never had my intelligence insulted like that in my entire life. It can’t be good business to treat people who comment on your magazine like morons.
I don’t read any of those fashions mags (what’s the need, with Manolo on watch?!?) but I am very concerned for young women who are influenced by them. I can only hope more people will be just as disturbed by these images and the lies about them and decide to speak out and take a stand.
Her upper right shoulder and arm (left side when looking at the pic) look like they belong to a child – creepy.
Glamour magazine,
Please run the original
un-retouched images from the America Ferrera cover
photo-shoot. The image you ran of her on the cover looks
absolutely ridiculous. She is already beautiful the way she
is, and you photoshopped her to look like a Frankenstein’s
Monster and a Barbie Doll. You should follow Dove’s lead, and
try “truth” in your publication and photography. Women are
beautiful naturally, and by smoothing out our wrinkles,
cloning out our cellulite, and blemishes you’re giving our
daughters unrealistic goals, and telling them they are not
good enough the way they are. Run the original shots, we want
to see her the same way your photographers did.
I got back the following response as well…
Copy/Paste:
Dear Marie-Claire,
Thanks so much for your letter about our October cover photo of America
Ferrera. Let me assure you, we did not digitally slim her; as she mentions
in the interview, she wears a size 6/8 on the bottom, ten on the top. You
are seeing her as she actually appears. That said, we deeply value your
feedback. Be sure to take a look inside at the photos of America and let us
know what you think.
Sincerely,
Emilia Benton
Reader Services Intern
It is the angle of the shot and the cut of the dress. She looks great and Glamour obvoiusly has great photographers that know how to make someone who is already beautiful even more beautiful. I don’t know how lumpy you gals are but I bet a great photograph might even make one of you look good. As for the response from Glamour, how many different ways do you have to have it put?
…Somone needs to introduce Lora to a pair of spectacles. A different angle doesn’t cut someone’s arms by half, narrow their shoulders, lengthen their neck – seriously, look at that photo on the right where she’s holding her head up – shrink their boobs, make their chin pointier, their hair and skin tone entirely different shades from real life, etc.
I make clothes. I’m a photographer. No clothing or camera in the world will do any of that.
Oh, and here’s the clincher. When their skin looks like glossy plastic, there’s been a lot of photoshopping going on.
Nuts.
Glamour clearly needed to have a stock reply, judging by the three separate people who have replied using the exact same words.
So Glamour expects me, a woman with a chest area almost exactly the same size as the version of America on their cover, to believe that she’s “a size ten on top” in that photo? Really?
I’m going to assume that their version of her jives with the version of America on the right, and just say — oh, WOW! I have bigger breasts than I thought I did! This is great! Having small boobs must just be some weird optical illusion I never knew about! I should probably thank Glamour for that alert.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m just going to go wrestle my surprisingly enormous 34B girls into the biggest bra I can find, since apparently they’re so much bigger than they look. No, really! Glamour says so!
I also can make clothes and take pictures Heather but I would hardly claim to be at the design level of those at Glamour magazine and it doesn’t sound like you are either. You need to look at the poses also. In the cover shot her arms are in front of her and her leg is raised which puts her hips back opposed to the second shot where her arm is behind her and her other arm is on her hip pushing it out. Her shoulders look narrow because the lines of the straps in the cover shot come come in at an angle opposed to the other ones which are at the widest part of her shoulders which make them look broader. Also, her hair is big and blowing in the cover shot which also makes her hips proportionally smaller. Besides the magazine is called ‘Glamour’ not ‘Dumpy’….I expect some art and design in the photographs.
If anyone has any doubts about what’s possible in Photoshop, go watch this video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DZDHQ9b9fbo
“Besides the magazine is called ‘Glamour’ not ‘Dumpy’….I expect some art and design in the photographs.”
The fact that you think the lovely curves in the right photo are “dumpy” and that she’s not glamorous already isn’t exactly making your opinion seem all that strong.
And how are you not seeing how jarringly unflattering that Glamour cover is? Does she still look pretty and skinnier? Yes. But photoshopped or not, whatever was done to the cover makes her look so vastly unlike herself that whatever tricks might have done with hair and makeup and wardrobe and (gasp!) maybe even airbrushing don’t make her look NORMAL. This does not look like the gorgeous curvaceous woman who stripped down proudly to her underwear in “Real Women Have Curves”. She looks like any other Hollywood starlet in that photo, and that’s the problem because she doesn’t in real life.
It doesn’t look like art or design at all. That so many people have seen it and think it looks like bad photoshopping if it isn’t says a lot about the quality of the photo or lack thereof. It takes a beautiful woman with sexy glamorous curves and makes her look flat, plastic, and common.
I don’t think it’s a Photoshop job, other than the minor retouching they always do on any such photo. I do agree the picture looks a little weird.
Ms. Ferrera’s hair is draped over her left shoulder, obscuring part of her neck and tracing out a path that looks like a droopy shoulder. This might be causing a slight optical illusion that her body is significantly skinnier than it actually is.
If you cover up the right side of the photo and look just at the other half (i.e., looking only at Ms. Ferrera’s right side, which faces our left), then the picture doesn’t look quite as strange. Her right arm is still a bit scrawny, and that might be the product of a small bit of retouching, or else a shadow on the inner side of her upper arm.
They clearly airbrushed away her collarbones, which is weird since collarbones usually are a symbol of thinness. In addition, the entire shape of her face is different, but absolutely not better. What a disgrace!
I see a tremendous difference in her face. The photo on the right shows a soft, round, natural face. The one from the magazine is much thinner, harder and angular. It’s the same face, but reflects a body that is easily 60 lbs. lighter than the cute, curvaceous America.
why not just come out in the open and admit it’s been retouched. There’s no way in hell that is her real body. We’re no fools
America Ferrera is a beautiful young lady and the picture taken just doesn’t look like her. Come on…when I got the magazine in my mail I looked at the cover and instantly noticed that something did not look right! She’s perfect the way that she in, why change it Glamour?
Did you all fall off the planet yesterday??? How can you be so judgemental of a person? Not just this fine actress, but all who are in the spot light day in and day out. It’s like we are here to pass judgement on others because our life is so f__ up. Who are you or me to judge these people. We spend our days hoping and praying that others will not judge us and yet MOST of us sit there and judge. Get a life – judge yourself for who and what you are before you attach others. Personally, I have enough issues in my life that need my constant attention that I don’t have time to pass judgement on others. They are stars and actors not god – give them the same blind eye that you give to your neighbor, childs teacher, cleaners, check out clerk at the grocery store – when you can look past yourself and your ignorance then you can judge people and their lives. When you can pay attention to those closest to you – then you have the right ot judge – I personally will probably never make it to the point where I can sit in judgement – I would never want that job. Why do you think you can have that job when only one is entitled to that and that is the one that you totally disregard when you bash his/her children. Wake up people – stop bashing people to make yourself feel better – take responsiblility for your life and quit judging other people (PS don’t comment on my spelling – I know it isn’t good)
this image has been retouched for sure any one can see that.
Please!!!!!!!!!! What do I tell my pre-teen daughter when magazines like Glamour can’t even let a real person be real! How dare they photo enhance her picture. What is wrong with being real these days? She is a beautiful girl and does not look like herself on the cover. I will not have this magazine in my house! They lost a customer! They have done this before but this is a girl my daughter looks up to and they “Hollywoodized” her.
This makes me very upset. America is an actress that takes pride of her body and accepts her beautiful curbs. This is why Hollywood is so messed up; they keep on putting images of extremely unhealthy actresses and label them as “beautiful.” But when the have a beautiful “real” woman, Hollywood screws it up with unrealistic and unhealthy images, such as this. I wish they would have showed her beauty as is.