• more about #whitewash
    Maulleigh: Perhaps, but maybe it's just the bright lights of the photoshoot. No I'm not being a smart ass, just it's not a big conspiracy says this photo retoucher. more »
    HallieMarie: I have a 14-year-old cousin who lives in the Philippines (she is half-Filipino, half-white). On her last visit, I noticed she was using that skin-ligh... more »
    veronykah: It is absolutely the super hot strobe they are using to light her. If you look at the left side of her face, the top of her arm and shoulder you can s... more »
    Andalucía: I wish they tried that shit with M.I.A. more »
    Rooo sez BISH PLZ: "Did Vanity Fair whitewash Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto in the March issue?" This is a rhetorical question, right, Dodai? more »
    picardia: That is the only bad picture I've ever seen of her. Whether whitewashed or simply overlit as all get out, it makes an utterly beautiful woman look fre... more »
    Flackette Goes Retro: It could just be the intense lighting. But yeah, she looks lighter there. more »
    roodles: blerg. I'm so over this pin up look. This woman is gorgeous as it is why so much photoshopping and contrived poses? I hope that she comes out of "Slum... more »
    Aesop's Foibles. YES.: I'm disgusted with the Photoshopping. She does look suspiciously lighter, yes. That may just be from the lighting they used. But my main problem is th... more »
    kimsama: I am also concerned about the oceans of blood on that thar globe. Is it possible the VF editors are colorblind? It has a nice kill-two-birds logic to it. more »
    Stabby McStabberson: This would be more of an issue if it were Vanity Fair - India Edition, where lighter skin is fetishized. This is the American edition (the only one?),... more »
    ceejeemcbeegee is not here: In the movie, the kids got progressively lighter as they aged as well. Coincidence? more »
    badmutha: Could it also be that they smeared that highlight/shimmer stuff on her? more »
    Lymed: Her tummy looks like my tummy and my mom used to compare me to Snow White. more »
    EkaterinaBallerina: I will never why dark-skinned women are perpetually "lightened" up. I'm Irish and therefore ridiculously pale to the point that I jokingly tell people... more »
    kelsium: Sure looks like it, doesn't it? I mean even if they didn't do it digitally they sure used quite the flash. more »
    LaFemme: I don't think they white-washed her, I just think that the lighting is off in BOTH photos. The angle in the first is kind of casting a shadow over her... more »
    JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: Such a mess. BROWN IS BEAUTIFUL, YOU PRICKS!!! more »
    Trulymadlyme: Vanity fair pisses me off on so many different levels, the least of which is the insane photoshoping and white washing this poor woman just went throu... more »
    sportz.star: If Jez hadn't told me, I wouldn't know the pic on the right was her. She's unrecognizable. more »
  • #downwithbrown

    Welcome To Hollywood! Now Lighten Up.

    Did Vanity Fair whitewash Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto in the March issue? If only India didn't have a history of skin bleaching. [Extrawhoredinary] More »
  • #beyonce

    Photoshop Of Horrors