Reverse Airbrushing Puts Extra Pounds On Actresses, Models

Weighting Game:

Nicky Eaton, head of PR at Condé Nast (which publishes Vogue, GQ, and Glamour) has confirmed that images of models are enhanced to make them appear fuller-figured:

"There have been cases where models are booked way ahead of a shoot and then they turn up two months later looking less healthy and perhaps a bit underweight. We wouldn't be happy showing them that way, so it is then that we would need that person to look a little bit fuller."

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Comments

[MarxMan]

07:07 AM on 04/23/2008

What is crazy about all this is that I think if you asked 10 men 9 of them would find the more realistic pictures more attractive. I flipped through a number of these photos and found the "heavier" women more attractive every time.

Patriarchy sucks :(

[ghostsofamerica]

03:06 PM on 04/22/2008

Remember, the man who created the Barbie Doll for Mattel found out the hard way what his creation really did to women: His daughter died of anorexia. Sad but true. Love the one your with, that is your own body, women. Rebel against the perverted military industrial complex's idea of male figure on a young girl's body.

[kellygrrrl]

07:12 PM on 04/21/2008

oh, yeah! cameron diaz looks really full-figured there

[lenners]

02:33 PM on 04/22/2008

hahaha

[formlessness]

05:13 PM on 04/21/2008

FYI, Airbrushing, is what your white trash cousin did to his ripped t-shirts in the early 90's when he was listening to poison and smoking kool's in his parent's garage.

Retouching is what we professionals do when we make all those pretty models into fake people. There is no reverse airbrushing or reverse retouching, nor is packing on the pounds in photoshop a new thing. Ever see one of those weight loss commercials? the before picture is usually the one they "enhance".

So for the sake of the Media, the Pundits, and all the rest of the Hacks, stop using the term airbrushing, it's as old and outdated as your first gen iPod.... oh you're still carrying one of those, no wonder you guys are so out of touch.

[Clinton]

07:43 PM on 04/21/2008

wow, some professional.

[wm1066]

12:36 PM on 04/22/2008

As Spanky Macfarland said in the "little Rascals" when they went to get thier picture taken at a photo studio, (he was asked what retouching was) "well you touch it once then you go back and touch it again" .... Hilarious!
I agree with you on the terms. There are easier ways in photoshop to add weight besides using the airbrush tool or the cloning tool.
Actually airbrushing is what professionals were doing to prints before photoshop came along.
I printed black and white for a number of years . We printed them alittle flat with alot of mid tones on non glossy paper. Sent them out to an airbrush artist to make the changes then when we got them back we made another negative from that print, then made another print and sent it out.