Well in the latest case of Hollywood being insanely cray-cray, superstar actress Cameron Diaz has been photoshopped to look larger. Yes, that’s right everyone. LARGER.
It seems the pendulum has swung so far in this crazy world of attaining ‘perfection’, that now the very same media who first pressured women to be unhealthily thin, are now having to Photoshop some flesh onto them.
Yup. Even the ones like Diaz, who we are constantly told are already ‘perfection’.
Rather than simply airbrushing out cellulite, stretch marks, pores, and you know – any sign of being a living, breathing person – it seems some magazines are now also having to apply ‘reverse retouching.’ What does that mean? It means that they’re taking digital measures to hide the unhealthy and ‘sickly’ looking appearance of models who rock up to photoshoots scarily thin. And why do they show up being scarily thin? Because the media and the fashion industry told them too.
It’s like some crazy messed up advertising version of the circle of life.
And you know what? I can’t feel the love tonight.
The editor of US health and fitness magazine Self, has conceded “we retouch to make the models look bigger and healthier”.
These before and after shots of Cameron Diaz reveal the extent of manipulation needed to stop models from looking frighteningly thin. Take a squiz:
The following description published by The Telegraph, reveals the extent to which this image has been manipulated:
Face: Cheeks appear filled out
Bust: Levelled
Thighs: Wider in the picture on the right
Hip: The bony definition has been smoothed away
Stomach: A fuller, more natural look
Arms: A bit more bulk in the arms and shoulders
It always astounds us here at Mamamia that the same industry that has told actresses like Diaz, and more recently Jennifer Lawrence, to lose weight, is now going to extraordinary lengths to digitally amp up the curves on those same actresses’ very slim frames.