Skinny VS Curvy

OK, the title needs a little explanation. First, I meant to say “photoshopped until a skeletal, inhuman level”. More exactly, a few weeks ago, this Ralph Lauren ad popped online:

The model in the picture, Filippa Hamilton, does not look like that, she looks like in the first picture. No one looks like that. I tried and tried and failed to figure out what possessed the photoshopper to go till this extreme thinspiration-poster-child level.  The online response was clear: Ralph Lauren was wrong, the image was all wrong and the brand itself accepted that it was a “mistake” and apologized:

“After further investigation, we have learned that we are responsible for the poor imaging and retouching that resulted in a very distorted image of a woman’s body,” Polo Ralph Lauren admitted.

But the story goes on. Guess what? Filippa was just fired… for being “overweight” (even though her BMI is technically underweight). New York Daily News reports:

Ralph Lauren’s clothing company fired the model whose body looked emaciated in a touched-up ad because she weighed too much, the woman told the Daily News Tuesday.

Filippa Hamilton – whose hips appeared slimmer than her head in the recent altered ad – said her contract was terminated in April because she was too heavy.

“They fired me because they said I was overweight and I couldn’t fit in their clothes anymore,” she said.

The 5-foot-10, 120-pound stunner was amazed to see her body digitally distorted for Ralph Lauren Blue Label.

“I was shocked to see that super skinny girl with my face,” she told the Daily News. “It’s very sad, I think, that Ralph Lauren could do something like that.”

Hamilton, 23, worked for Ralph Lauren since about 2002 and considered the company like a second family – until she was bounced.

Then out of nowhere last week, the altered ad – which appeared only in Japan – caused a sensation and drew the ire of critics who thought it appeared sickly and unrealistic.

Polo Ralph Lauren said in a statement Tuesday night that Filippa is a “beautiful and healthy” woman but their relationship ended “as a result of her inability to meet the obligations under her contract with us.”

Hamilton’s lawyer, Geoffrey Menin, said the image is “gross distortion of how she really looks and which we fear will be extremely damaging to her.”

“I think they owe American women an apology, a big apology,” she said. “I’m very proud of what I look like, and I think a role model should look healthy.”

So what do you think about all this?

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To complete the title, Megan Fox’s Waist Just Went rom Minuscule to Impossible, via Photoshop, that is.

Remember the pic above? It’s Megan and her super tiny waist filming for the movie Jonah Hex.

And since her 22 inch waist squeezed in an impossibly tight corset wasn’t enough, they made it even more impossibly small in the movie poster:

It does not look good. Seriously.

Colombian pop star Shakira has laughed off reports that she recently went under the knife for a nose job.

The singer sparked surgery rumours after admitting that she visited a surgeon because she was unhappy with the size of her nose.

‘So many things going on in the world and yet some invent stories about me getting a nose job! Why would a she wolf (apparently the title of her new album) want a smaller nose?’ she posted on her Twitter.com homepage.

Source: Yahoo News

This is not the first time Shakira has talked about plastic surgery – here’s what she said a while back:

“A few years ago, I considered (plastic) surgery, breast augmentation, and all kinds of things. Maybe my eyebrows should be higher. Maybe my lips should be bigger. It was really making me bitter. I’d think I’m not going to look good for my fans! But eventually I said, “forget it” and I started accepting myself the way I am and realized that I’m just not perfect.”

OK, I’ll tell you what I think. I don’t know about the nose job, but she changed her hairstyle, make-up, eye-brows and lost some weight and these all changed her face.

However, I think that her nose is quite photoshopped in magazine spreads and on album covers (it’s shorter and narrower) and this might be the reason why the rumors started in the first place. Here’s an example:

… and another photoshopped one:

What do you think?

A few days ago, we were all admiring (or not) Eva’s makeover and airbrushed figure on the cover of Citizen K Magazine. Click here to take a look at the post!

Since then, lots of other pictures have surfaced – this bunch includes a nipple slip (didn’t see that one coming from Eva), the mandatory outfit in celebrity world also known as “pantless”, some weird poses and expressions and the same liquified and long-ified figure.

There’s a lot more on the next page!

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The body: Nice figure! However, it’s so not Eva’s.

Again, completely removing the shadows from one’s body will not make them look more attractive, just more… mannequin-esque.

The makeover(under): What’s up with this hairstyle and make-up? Why so hot all of a sudden? Proof:

* that would be Kim K. in YRB Magazine last month.

Let’s hear it!