Jezebel: photo finish

Photoshop Of Horrors

Dodai — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:40:00 EDT

This item about Scarlett Johansson on the cover of Cosmo focuses on her waist. Specifically: The waist the magazine's art department whittled for her. Is ScarJo curvy? Yes! Does she have, as seen here, a waist that is only a smidge wider than her neck? No. And we know this because M. LeBlanc at Bitch Ph.D. did the research. When seen "in the wild," Scarlett's midsection is that of a normal, fit human being. It's only on the cover of Cosmo that she takes on the dimensions of Betty Boop. Oh, and, as commenter TheGarlicSong pointed out, on this cover, her left arm is smaller and shorter than her right arm. WTF. (Click to enlarge.) [Bitch Ph.D.]

Controversies

Dodai — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:45:00 EDT

We talked about this in Midweek Madness, but the cover of Star magazine uses a month-old photo to illustrate Angelina's "collapse." The original pic shows her sitting on a beach, then being helped up by Brad and, uh, The Edge. Radar says that TMZ wrote about the photo controversy, but stole their story from a post seen on Cover Awards. Cover Awards is run by Mark Pasetsky, the former Editor-in-Chief of Life & Style. So obviously he'd love to take Star down a notch. But did TMZ steal from him? [Radar]

MagHag

Dodai — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:20:00 EDT

Mariah Carey is on the cover of the June 2008 issue of Vibe looking absolutely tiny. You may recognize this image because the photo shoot was in her "Bye Bye" video. Maybe she really is a size zero (as she told Us magazine.) (Click for a closer look.)

MagHag

Dodai — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:45:00 EDT

Nicole Richie did a photo shoot for Harper's Bazaar with Harlow and baby daddy Joel Madden. Lionel Richie makes an appearance, too, shamelessly wearing a T-shirt that reads, "Hello." Ha! Click the picture to see more images. [ONTD]