This is everything I detest about magazines
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What’s wrong with this picture? Apart from the fact that magazines continue to peddle these tedious stories about post-baby bodies designed to make mothers feel like crap? Apart from this relentless emphasis on losing weight after giving birth? Oh no, there’s more.
Check out the original shot of reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian before US OK magazine CUT HER IN HALF AND DIGITALLY CREATED A NEW LOWER BODY with Photoshop:
A KARDASHIAN REALITY: The new issue of OK magazine claims to have an exclusive on Kourtney Kardashian’s “body after baby,” but the package might not be as exclusive as the magazine proclaims — and Kardashian might not be as slim as she appears on its cover.
The reality TV star contends she never spoke to OK for the cover story, which quotes her as well as her friends and stepfather, Bruce Jenner. “They doctored and Photoshopped my body to make it look like I have already lost all the weight, which I have not,” Kardashian told WWD. She also spoke out to her Twitter followers: “One of those weeklies got it wrong again…they didn’t have an exclusive with me. And I gained 40 pounds while pregs, not 26…But thanks!”
The cover photo features Kardashian posing with her baby, Mason, a shot taken seven days after his birth by Albert Michael of StarTraksPhoto.com. The cover image has been touched up to make Kardashian appear thinner on OK’s cover than in the original photo, which first appeared as part of the Jan. 11 issue of Life & Style.
It also seems that OK has built the lower half of Kardashian’s body for its cover, as the original images were cropped at the belly. An OK spokesman declined comment.
To those who are tired of “all this body image stuff“? To those who say “Photoshop is a fact of life, get over it“? To those who say “we already know magazines digitally retouch images, move on“?
I’m going to say this. I’m not going to move on. Because had the original photo of Kourtney not come to light and had she not spoken out about it, millions of women (and men) would have believed that’s what a woman really looks like 7 days after GIVING BIRTH.
And because if we don’t keep exposing the lies magazines like this are telling us and the gross disservice they are doing to women every time they try to deceive us into believing ANYONE resembles the images they publish, then they win. And we lose.
OK magazine? I am appalled.
Are you?
[thanks Bugmum]
Oh, and just for the record, THIS is what most women look like in the days after giving birth.
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I’m with you Mia. This magazine cover IS disgusting. Kourtney & baby look lovely on both accounts but it makes me see RED that stupid ******s continue with this ****! I want my daugther growing up free from this ****. I want her to be able to look at a magazine cover (or heck, even subscribe to a magazine!) and not be scarred for life.
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Looks like they even photoshopped the baby to thin out his sweet chubby cheeks…..I guess its never to early to make what this magazine seems to think are “improvements”.
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Magazines photo show true beauty of mother toddler meals
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look at how funny her hand looks (the hand craddling baby’s butt) now that you know what to look for. It looks kind of like the baby is just floating there and her arms are out in front of her!
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she looks lovely in the original. wish they would show the true beauty of women in these magazines.
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I didn’t all the comments…but they changed the baby too. I am not sure if they used another baby or what…but that is not the same photo of the baby as in the original…the hands and head are different. I guess the baby wasn’t up to their standards either…
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I lost my baby weight rather quickly both times I was pregnant. I was skinny before & skinny after. When moms (friends) say to me you are so lucky I remind them that God’s a fair guy & lift up my shirt to show stretched skin and stretch marks with a smile.
We have two ways to fight this 1-don’t buy magazines such as these and 2- remind ourselves that we are beautiful. Loving ourselves regardless is the best way to raise children who will do the same.
Great post– thanks for starting the conversation!
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Geez… you would think touching up women who arent pregnant or just given birth is enough.. but to lie abt the weight gain 2?? then touch her up on top of that.. what a joke. Im glad she spoke up!
Drea
http://www.dreawood.com
BTW I really enjoyed ur blog! im a 1st time visitor.
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My son is 2 and a half years old now and I still havent lost the weight that I put on while my wife was pregnant with him.
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I’ve got a photo just like that too – right down to the 30 hour labour and epidural and the whole bit!!! And I love it…I was totally unaware of the camera, all I had eyes for was my new little girl…I was blotchy and red and my hair was all over the place, but none of that matters, because what the picture shows is the grin all over my face, and the look in my eyes…and THAT is what it should all be about.
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