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The heavy-handed Photoshop retoucher strikes again. This time he’s gone after Demi Moore – gnawing away at about an inch of flesh from the hip area of Demi’s outer thigh. It takes an eagle-eyed viewer to notice it, but once you do, there’s no debating it. In the cover shot above, look at Demi’s left thigh. The area of visible thigh between the upper and lower sarong has had quite a bit removed. Once you look lower, you’ll notice that the next part of visible thigh sticks out about an inch more – where it should be smaller than the upper thigh.
When Demi Moore appeared on the December cover of W magazine, she drew admiring glances for her slender figure and flawless skin. But while most readers are used to a little airbrushing and touch-up on the covers, it appears the 47-year-old has fallen foul of an over-enthusiastic Photoshopper.
A chunk of her thigh appears to have been digitally removed from the cover between her hip bone and a casually draped sarong. There is a good chunk missing from what was her left thigh (our right). Underneath the sarong, the thigh continues but appears to be bulging out an inch more than the photoshopped area.
The section of thigh between the folds of green material appears to have a chunk of flesh missing. The mistake was pointed out by eagle-eye commentators and has been the subject of hot discussion on the internet. According to Jezebel.com, W magazine claimed any retouching was done in-house by the staff of photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
And a spokesperson added the photographers ‘did not do anything unusual or out of the ordinary on Demi Moore for the photo on the cover of W. ‘Demi is an extraordinary beautiful woman and we feel our cover reflects that.’ The actress, who is wearing a Balmain metal mesh and leather dress, was labelled a Demi Goddess in the accompanying article. And, as many internet bloggers and commentators have pointed out, Demi looks so slender on the red carpet that there has been speculation that she had gone under the knife. So why the designers cut out a section of her hip remains a mystery.
[From the Daily Mail]
It is truly a strange decision to make. By most accounts, Demi’s had so much plastic surgery you’d think she’d require next to no retouching. The Mail makes it sound like whatever happened, it wasn’t by Demi’s request. But it’s hard to figure out what was going through the retoucher’s head. Maybe he just really, really hates thighs. Or hates Demi Moore. I’ve heard she’s super unpleasant.
W definitely did appeal to Demi’s vanity in their article about her. They described her legs as “chopsticks,” and talked about how she was aging naturally. Then they went on about her teeny, tiny imperfections that were supposed to be proof that she doesn’t go under the knife as often as I eat lunch. Her eyes wrinkle at the corners when she smiles! That means everything on her must be au natural! Still, once you notice the lack of thigh, it doesn’t look good. I doubt they did it because they thought too much flesh was showing – if that were the case, you could just make the sarong cover more flesh, and you wouldn’t be left with the strange problem of leaving too much thigh down below.
Although… given how much surgery she’s had, maybe Demi really is just missing a chunk of thigh. Maybe that’s just how her legs are.
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that’s embarassingly bad photoshop work.
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Demi is tweeting about this:
Exactly & I have no hips! RT @CMunson11 I know..its just the way u have ur hip kinda swung to one side..y can noone see this!? Idiots!
Also:
Agreed i am in the skinny side lately
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I’d love to see the ‘before’ pics.
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Shes beautiful and doesnt need to be shop-chopped. I am sure the before pictures were fine, they should have left her alone.
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Yikes, that is a blatant Photoshop error. Demi gets help of all kinds, it’s so unfair! She does look great though, whoever does her work does a good job.
I can understand removing skin blemishes or fixing unflattering shadows, but chopping off hips is ridiculous.
Still not as bad as those crazy Ralph Lauren ads though, yikes!
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The lower part of her face does not belong to her either.
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I said days ago that cover was photoshopped. She no more looks like that then a man on the moon, and that glaring error on her leg is hysterical.
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Let’s just clarify, it’s certainly not just the hip that’s been airbrushed…
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Wow… where to start.
If I was that photoshoppers boss, fired! and secondly, who the hell needs to p/shop Demi? the woman has all the bases covered!
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I saw her in person at TIFF in September, she’s tiny but doesn’t look much like this picture. Her clavicle can cut glass in this pic. Wow. Unreal.
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Anyone who thinks this is what her body looks like needs to have their head examined.
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Demi……..please “age” gracefully. Thank you.
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I’m going to be the voice of dissent here, and say that I don’t think it was chopped out because it appears to be in-line with the upper portion of her hip. Her thighs have always been muscular and it is completely conceivable to me that since her hip is cocked to the back and her thigh is coming forward and turned out ever so slightly, that this is really her.
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Everything is photoshop. Even her torso. This is disgusting. It’s not about age, but perpetuating an unrealistic and unattainable standard.
It’s not Demi’s fault. The publishers should be raked over hot coals, but then again, so should readers who accept this rubbish.
When will readers boycott these magazines?
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LOVE the bodice of that dress!
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crash2GO2, I agree! It’d look more like a severe scoliosis than a bad photoshop. It’s the way she stands on her left leg that makes her look like she’s been sliced too much.
Airbrush or not I think she has a great bone structure and a beautiful face.
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there is something really weird about her face… I didn’t really recognize her at first.
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gorgeous top. mind you it doesn’t even look like her face never mind her wonky legs
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Mwah! I wanna be photoshopped too! (Just, not like that). Beats painful surgery!
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Wah I want photoshop! Why can’t I look this good?
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I say go girl. She looks great and if she is happy with what she has done and it has not been bad for her health then the only opinion that matters is hers.
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No. There is no photoshopping of the thigh/hip in this photo. The thigh/hip area is natural. The “dimple” is a consequence of the pose.
I found a photo of an old sculpture of a female model in the classic contrapposto pose. Although the model is much heavier, she has the dimple in her thigh/hip area. I went a step further and traced the model’s outline, much like bbonyx at BoingBoing did with the Demi photo. Then, I compared the two. See the results below:
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5796/comparisong.jpg
Very similar!
If the model had been thinner, you’d even see a much closer match.
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Are we sure they didn’t just hire a Demi look-alike? That’s not even her nose!!
No and No.
http://www.celebrityzu.com/images/demi-moore12.jpg
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hmmm, that doesn’t even really look like her…
It might be the way she’s standing, but it does look like she has more hip on one side that the other… *shrug*
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This is photo-shopping of the craziest order. Who is that?!
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she tweeted that it wasn’t photoshop. liar liar.
the line of the left hip and left leg are not even in sync. they just cut out a big piece of her hip. bad job.
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Eyes, nose, mouth, entire face – photoshopped. Hip – not so much, i think. It really is a natural line, if u follow it under the sarong.
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phizzyb, nice work.
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it looks like she has a pegleg.
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don’t care about her hip very much…but the face!
photoshopped to the point that the image resembles her, but doesn’t quite appear to BE her.
when this cover was first posted, I thought that it was Courteney Cox.
I understand photoshopping out wrinkles and blemishes, but I HATE it when they alter the face of a person to the point that it doesn’t look like it’s the same person.
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When magazines cut staff, this is what we get…
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demi has come out to say that the photo wasn’t photoshopped. lol – that’s hilarious.
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Not even close, phizzyb. The statue’s proportions are still correct (the thigh DOES come out further and matches the right one), regardless of the similarity of the angle they chopped Demi’s to, and even your red line cuts much further in on the sash than the red line you drew on the statue.
In fact, your side-by-side makes the Photoshopping MORE apparent.
Thanks for playing, though.
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@phizzyb…You may be right, but it’s hard to blame people for expecting cover photos to be photoshopped.
Demi could have avoided this controversy by not wearing such a strange and unattractive dress.
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WTF?!?, overlay the outlines, if you are capable of doing so. They almost exactly match. And, as I pointed out, the female model (statue) is much heavier than Demi, so of course they won’t perfectly match.
Actually, I’ll assume you don’t know how to overlay the outlines and do it for you.
http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/6104/comparison2.jpg
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phizzyb– no need to make assumptions about me. I’ve studied art in Paris and Florence, as well as photo layouts and graphic design/manipulation for my master’s degree, and your little exercise is not in any way useful or enlightening.
You can clearly see how much is cut out in on Moore’s left thigh over the statue, since the right thigh lines are practically exactly the same, but the left side cuts in much further on hers. The spaces in between their left red and blue lines are exactly the part of Moore that have been digitally excised.
You can scribble on anything and call it “the same”, but that doesn’t make it so. We are talking proportions of each image individually, not fatter or thinner.
You must have failed your art (and Photoshop) classes if you think your little diagram does anything but absolutely prove the cover photo has been altered.
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This photoshop is outta control, how the hell do we know what anyone really looks like? It’s all phoney balony, surgery, smoke and mirrors. I wonder if body styles ever change in the future and editors will actually add pounds and blemishes back on?
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I think she looks like Sarah Jessica Parker in the face.
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why do people think the dead eye-gaping mouth look is sexy?
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I read a lot of blogs but this one really surprised me very positively.
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