Comedian Amy Schumer has been unveiled as the cover girl for US InStyle‘s Beauty Issue and already the inevitable backlash has begun.
She’s ‘obviously’ been photo-shopped. Her swimsuit is ‘too revealing’. They’ve put her in a one-piece rather than a bikini as they would with a ‘smaller’ model. And why does she – and every woman – need to be wearing swimwear at all?
It’s boring, it’s predictable and it’s counterproductive.
Yes, the concerns about photoshop in magazines (and social media) are certainly founded and there is something in publications constantly putting women in soaked swimwear in order to shift copies.