OK! Goes Too Far
More and more often it seems like I write about magazines that photoshop women excessively when doing their diet stories. OK! is a frequent offender but for them even this goes too far. For now we will gloss over the fact they put a Kardashian on their cover. That is a much different crime. The picture on the left was taken of Kourtney Kardashian about a week after her baby was born and was on the cover of a different magazine. The one on the right? Well it has never been taken. She didn't pose for OK! and she didn't give them an interview. OK! just took the other photo, dropped about 20 pounds from her and are selling the issue as her diet secrets.
How is this supposed to make a woman feel who had a baby a month ago like Kourtney? Why can't she be back to her pre-baby weight and totally perfect looking one month later? To me this is wrong on so many levels. It is misleading and harmful. It is a lie perpetrated on the entire world. The sad thing is many many people will buy this issue, follow the diet and will wonder what is wrong with them when they don't look like Kourtney. This has got to stop.
37 comments:
amen.
I have to give her credit for owning up that it was photoshopped and that gained more weight during pregnancy than they stated.
Unless something radical happens, it takes a while for the uterus to get back to its normal size after giving birth.
These stories and photos are preposterous.
Reading stuff like this makes my blood boil. For many reasons.
yeah, I hate this crap. I feel bad enough trying to become a happy size without this crap.
What Ms Cool said.
As a PhD sociology student ... I am seriously considering doing my dissertation on this topic - photoshopping v reality of women's bodies. ESPECIALLY in regards to post-pregnancy or "diet secret"
ditto everyone. makes me sick.
The other sad thing is that they photoshopped the baby, too. Different outfit, different tilt of the head, different hands. What the F??
I thought the secret to losing 10 pounds was having the kid.
I guess it must be legal, but it just seems totally unethical and somehow criminal to photoshop someone's photo without their knowledge and come up with an article about diet secrets. It puts the person in a bad position if/when the diet obviously doesn't work since it implies this person totally endorses the diet! Regardless, I think she looks 100 times better in the original picture.
DAMN RIGHT. Fuckers.
as much as I can't stand ANY Kardashian, I do give her credit for speaking up about this.
Thank goodness she at least came out and denounced the lie that is this cover.
I think this sort of thing SHOULD be illegal.
I have no faith in magazines or covers anymore.
These are the posts that make me think Enty is a woman. I don't know too many men that would give a rats ass about this. But if Enty is a man, amen to you brother. This nonsense is total BS and should be illegal.
wow, I didn't even notice they photoshoped the baby as well. How horrible.