Audrey Hepburn Airbrushed For 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' (PHOTOS)

Audrey Hepburn got Photoshopped!

Fine, maybe they didn't have Photoshop back then (what with the not-having-computers and all). But Hepburn did undergo some airbrushing for her 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's," as promo pics for Sarah Gristwood's new coffee table book show, reports the New York Post.

The photo shows Hepburn posing for one of the movie's iconic publicity shots with pencil lines marking up her face, supposedly indicating where the gamine star could use a bit of smoothing.

From the look of it, the retoucher took care of the faintest crows feet and small lines beneath the 32-year-old actress's eyes.

While the desire to retouch Heburn's nearly perfect face is fairly appalling, it's less appalling that airbrushing occured back in the 1960s. The search for perfection, after all, is timeless.

See the "before" and "after" below and read more at NYPost.com.

Comments

[LMPE]

03:19 PM on 10/05/2011

Airbrushing is as old as photography, isn't it?

If someone ever photographs me, I'm going to make them sign an agreement NOT to Photoshop me.

[Ageeb Saleh]

09:35 AM on 10/05/2011

معجب جدا بهذا البوم

[James Markham]

02:56 AM on 10/05/2011

Audrey Hepburn (one of the most beautiful, gracious, humanitarian film stars of all time,) was too old to play Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's. The film version tended to whitewash the young (18 yr. old) character who was closer to that of a high class hooker. Since we now know much more about the mores of cafe society, party girls, and their trashy tabloid style escapades, I would like to see a remake of BAT that doesn't pull punches.

[f0t0o1]

09:17 PM on 10/04/2011

She was one of the most beautiful women Hollywood ever had. There is nothing to compare nowadays.

[LMPE]

03:19 PM on 10/05/2011

Anne Hathaway comes pretty close.

[Jesus Germanotta]

03:43 PM on 10/04/2011

There was a huge amount of retouching and airbrushing that has gone on in Hollywood for decades. You can look and see where deep shadows and lines were painted on cleavage or thighs were retouched to look smaller. Lighting, makeup etc were all hallmarks of the Hollywood mystique the difference is now the computer technology can resize certain areas and literally create what is not actually there.

[HarryP]

03:28 PM on 10/04/2011

don't think it is airbrushed - think they just adjusted the contrast

[hellaci0us]

02:51 PM on 10/04/2011

actually as someone who actually uses photoshop... it appears they simply adjusted the contrast... to heighten the lighter shades (and washing out minor imperfections) and deepening the darker colors (such as her hair)...

regardless.. her face is beautiful and unchanged...

not something we see alot of these days !

[thalius]

02:48 PM on 10/04/2011

She did not need it. She is beautiful!

[ummm]

01:42 PM on 10/04/2011

These were studio promotional photographs and re-touching was sop- the dream factory, the image maker, get people to the movies, not a candid personal Polaroid; the studio re-touched the Munchkins and Garbo....

[Whogivesafox]

01:41 PM on 10/04/2011

You people are ridiculous.

[Lacee Deniz]

11:06 AM on 10/04/2011

Really?it'ss Hollywood what do yyou except?

[beansie]

10:28 AM on 10/04/2011

Its too bad our society still doesnt get it.....Audrey Hepburn was a beautiful beautiful woman within her own skin....who she was as a woman radiated out in her beauty on the outside....no airbrushing was needed....and it isnt needed today.....we have teenage daughters getting plastic surgery......who in their right mind would let their child do this.....I am who I am....and I will show the lines that have been created by the life that I have led........

[Libertarian Way]

11:50 AM on 10/04/2011

You must be overweight.

[Whogivesafox]

01:41 PM on 10/04/2011

You must be 13.

[beansie]

08:42 AM on 10/07/2011

You made me laugh at how ridiculous your comment was.... by the way I am not overweight but if I were it would have nothing to do with my self worth or how beautiful I am....it is the person that I am and continue to become that makes me beautiful....and I see that you havent gotten out of high school yet and look only skin deep....time to grow up......

[Sid Monique]

11:31 AM on 10/05/2011

Agreed. Girls today have no self-esteem because they have to see all of them Fake airbrushed women on tv.

[jacmed]

09:27 AM on 10/04/2011

So what's new about airbrushing? It was done all the time and is still being done not only for celebrities but for models in magazine ads, etc. With photoshop it's a lot easier than it used to be. Furthermore, long before photography, when portraits were painted, the artist made his subject look better than they really did by maybe narrowing a nose, enhancing the cheekbones, omitting a scar, or whatever, or he wouldn't be paid!

[JScott]

10:59 AM on 10/04/2011

I remember an acquaintance of mine who ran a photofinishing studio pre photoshopping and he would 'paint' aka touch up photos, literally at an easel and with paintbrushes.

[nancynancy]

08:18 PM on 10/04/2011

Agreed.

[suin1]

09:25 AM on 10/04/2011

There has to be something more important happening in the world than the fact that a photo of Ms Hepburn was airbrushed fifty years ago. Please stop publishing these foolish nonsensical,inane articles.
I clicked the article because I thought it was about Katherine, not Audrey. Silly me!

[GoodDecisions]

09:42 AM on 10/04/2011

So....it's nonsense if it's about Audry Hepburn but it wouldn't be nonsense if it were about Katherine Hepburn?

[shhurtjr]

09:21 AM on 10/04/2011

She was fantastic in "Wait Until Dark".

[LMPE]

03:20 PM on 10/05/2011

That movie made me jump.