Shape On Jenny McCarthy: "We Can't Change The Shape Of Anyone's Body"
Mere hours after we posted Jenny McCarthy’s comments about her Shape cover (she called it “a crap load of airbrushing)”, we got an email from the PR Director of the magazine:
Hi Dodai-
In response to your post on the Jenny McCarthy’s[sic] Shape cover…
Here is a statement from Jenny McCarthy, as well as one from the folks at Shape.
Can you please include these statements?
Thank[sic] in advance,
[Name redacted]
Here are the statements they wanted us to run (emphasis ours, naturally):
“I didn’t mean to imply that the magazine had done anything to alter the shape of my body on the cover image. I worked hard on that body! I was really just joking about the airbrushing make-up that was used to cover up freckles and stretch marks and to highlight the contours of my muscles. Other than that, it’s all me, thanks to yoga, a healthy diet and an amazing photographer that lit me to perfection.” — Jenny McCarthy
Yeah, sure. You were joking. About the makeup. And the shot is “all you” thanks to an “amazing photographer.”