Healthy Magazine Admits to Airbrushing Skinny Model to Give Her Curves

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My oh my have times changed.....Happy reading!....
My, how the tables have turned.

After endless egregious airbrushing that's given us missing hips and armpits, a magazine has finally done the unthinkable: beefed up a model.

Healthy, the in-house health magazine for British vitamin and health food retailer Holland & Barrett has admitted to using airbrushing to give thin model Kamilla Wladyka fake curves on its April cover, the Daily Mail reports.

In a debate on retouching, editor Jane Druker 'fessed up to the digital makeover, reportedly saying the magazine "had to put on half a stone (seven pounds)" after Wladyka allegedly showed up to the shoot looking thinner than she had during the casting process.

"There were plenty of clothes that we couldn't put on her because her bones stuck out too much," Druker told the source.

"She looked beautiful in the face, but really thin and unwell. That's not a reflection of what we do in our magazine, which is about good health."

Guess that's nothing a few minutes in Photoshop can't fix, apparently.

The Polish Wladyka is reportedly a size 6 (US size 4) and boasts a 24-inch waist, according to her modeling agency.

Meanwhile, another participant at the debate, Gerard Chevalier, claimed Druker had added two to three stones (28 to 42 pounds) to the model's slim frame, the paper reports.

Sheesh. Couldn't they have just handcuffed her to the crafts services table... or, better yet, taken the advice of debate organizers Leni's Model Management?

"When magazines start changing body shape, it becomes unhealthy," Eleni Renton told the paper. "That girl probably should have been sent home from the shoot."

What do you think? Is it OK to use airbrushing to make someone curvier, rather than skinnier? Or is a fake a fake? Leave a comment.

In related news, check out Kim Kardashian's unairbrushed nude photo shoot.

 

Hey Na, I have a friend who was in advertising/marketing for 16 years and part of what he did at one time was airbrush models.  He said he had to take out bulging ribs, sunken eyes, bones protruding in the chest and shoulders and make them look...normal. 

Can we just admit that boney women do not look good in many of the ads we see today, especially underwear ads and curvey woman make clothes look sexier??!! More woman have curves than those who don't.  I am so sick of seeing some boney white girl trying to sell me a bra when she herself is from the itty bitty ***** committee!!!

The truth is that curey woman ARE sexier and sensors pull those adds because it has a far greater impact on the public than some boney girl who looks like a prepubescent boy!!

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Hey B, I totally agree...that brings up the latest controversy with the ads that caused a whole lot of ruckus during Dancing with the Stars commerical break of Victoria Secrets versus Lane Bryant plus sized models and the sad thing was the Lane Bryant models actually look better than the thinner Victoria Secret model...and this made a whole lot of folks angry as if a women can't look good unless she is a size 2/4...LOL...

Most of the men complained about it mentioning that they would rather see healthier normal looking sexy women than women who look like skeletons with boob jobs....

I saw that controversy this way, the truth is subconsciously we KNOW that the thicker model looks better and is truly sexy and THAT is what the sensors saw, whether realizing it or not, so they pulled it.  We "see" the boney girl, but the truth is...it's not all that sexy.  Mildly maybe because they are writhing around like they have a pepper in there coochies, but not naturally sexy.  If you took away the hair and makeup, they really do not look all that feminine.  I agree, they look like young boys. 

The curvey woman looks like a woman..sexy, succulent (my favorite word to describe my body:) soft and zoftig and it's alluring. It feels naughty.  It's truly sexy. 

They airbrush models thinner.  Now fatter.  And women loose their minds trying to keep up with today's trend.  I expect any photo I see has been retouched. 

You are correct I believe most professional models in magazines have always been airbrushed..what a shame, these poor young girls are starving themselves, getting sick, looking deathly ill to look someone that does not even exist have the time....