Did Jessica Simpson's Cover Shoot for Elle Get Digitally Enhanced?


Did Jessica Simpson's Cover Shoot for Elle Get Digitally Enhanced?

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This is a great post by Jezebel, a pop culture web-site and blog. They have launched an (admittedly amateur) investigation in to the cover photo on Elle magazine's September issue.

The question at hand asks if Jessica Simpson's figure was digitally altered. Complete with diagrams, comparisons, measurements and comments, it's a great dialogue in to the media's obsession with the perfect body.

http://jezebel.com/5031972/jessica-simpsons-elle-cover-waist-not-want-not
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user-icon Submitted by Mia Northwest on Sat, 2008-08-02 22:55


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I did

Submitted by wHATUP on Tue, 2008-08-05 16:50.

I did a piece this topic a while ago. Jamie Lee Curtis had a cover so digitally enhanced that she went to another mag and did an undoctored shoot. The arguement of the editors has always been that the photos are art and they can do what ever they want. But that doesn't hold water. There are obviously trying to create an image of the female form. In the piece I did I detailed how two models in europe were under an 18 BMI (Body Mass Index) which is a threshold for being healthy. Both were under a 14 BMI which is past the starvation point and both were actively be photographed and both died from starvation. Spain doesn't allow any model to be below an 18 BMI in runway shows. Why can't we do that?

Good post!

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