Ew

who would think that airbrushed pic is attractive, looks like a 30 year old woman in a 12 year old girls body.

http://www.stylelist.com/blog/2009/10/14/ralph-lauren-distorted-ad-skinny-model-fired-for-being-fat/?icid=main|main|dl3|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stylelist.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F10%2F14%2Fralph-lauren-distorted-ad-skinny-model-fired-for-being-fat%2F

>_> What the *** did I just see? I can floss with that airbrush girl...

she looks like she needs a Bic Mac

Gollum, Gollum!!

Well, I feel they are pretty asinine in airbrushing an image, especially to such an extent. Hyperbolic presentations of beauty can already be beyond the levels of sense.. But to go so far as to take a thin, attractive model, and then distort her to sub-human levels is a bit ridiculous. Even further when you don't get any sense of actual beauty there, especially due to proportions..

As for their ability to distort the image.. Odds are, her contract contains a release that allows them the rights to the image, and this often means the company can use or distort the image largely as they please. This is especially true since the model likely agreed to airbrushing in previous circumstances to allow for a better picture.

As for being fired for being too fat.. Unfortunately, again.. Many of these contracts are pretty precise. If they can provide evidence to the idea that her job function was to model these clothes, and that it requires a specific figure to model their intended line, they can terminate contract for breach.

It really is unattractive, though, and the woman herself is not. It seems like a distorted sense of beauty that drive these designers, because the clothing they sell often extends into sizes that are larger than the models they'd attempt to discharge for their weight.

A sad world we live in when looking like this is considered hot.

I considered making a post about this when I saw it several days ago but I have a tendency of making threads that go nowhere..so I didnt.

I laughed when I saw that picture. What were the people who ordered the photoshopz thinking? theres no way that looks natural or possible or attractive. Her head is wider than her hips! If this catches on as the new beautiful then...well I dont know what then...lol...new cosmetic surgery for hip shaving I guess....

Ralph Lauren threatened to sue multiple companies for copywrite violations for showing that image, boingboing refused to remove it and their response to RL was hilarious. I wish I had the previous article I read. Something about how they cant sue over Copywrite violations and everytime they get threatened then they'll just post the threatening letter on the internets for all to ridicule.

idk, but the average woman is not a size negative six. >_> Even in America where the average woman are now a tad bit "overweight" as opposed to optimal based on doctor standards and now model standards...it's not a size one. I have no clue what a guy can see in a woman that thin. :/ I like my women thin, yes. But I am also thin and not looking for a stick figure to make fire with. That image was disturbing and kinda disgusting to be honest.

heres the actual article, courtesy of Msn.com...

Size 4 model: I was fired for being too fat

the pic was definitely shopped

They should take her and Kate Moss and make a nice bridge with it! The toothpick supermodels bridge, how awesome would it be? ^^

I remember seeing this and laughing a few days ago. Pretty inline with what Daus said, I don't even know why they went to such extremes with it. I'm sure they shop some stuff, but she just looks alien-like and disgusting in this, much less the cultural message of taking the freakishly thin super-model one step further. I'm glad to see it being talked about more for no other reason than for the model who got the boot to get her job back.

Well it's like what they did in Spain, some of their models on the runway were TOO skinny so they pulled them off.

I'd be surprised when a picture ISNT airbrushed.

Looks gross. AIRBRUSH KNEEGROOOOW