In November, Demi Moore launched a full-blown legal assault on the very idea that she would be Photoshopped for the cover of W magazine. She even went as far as to authorize her attorneys to intimidate anyone who would suggest she might have had a little digital help to, say, steal the body of a runway model half her age.
An excerpt from a letter her legal team sent to one offending blogger:
[T]he truth is now well established. My client’s hips, waist or legs were not altered, retouched, or photoshopped for the cover image. Statements stating or implying to the contrary are false and defamatory.
As you are undoubtedly well aware, my client’s appearance is of great importance to her career and livelihood, and false claims or insinuations that she secretly uses extraordinary artificial means to alter her appearance are extremely damaging.
Just one technicality: I don’t think anyone calls photo retouching “secret” or “extraordinary” anymore. As far as everyone is concerned, it’s par for the course in any image designed to sell something — especially beauty products.
Like, for example, Demi’s new perfume ads for Helena Rubinstein. On the left is the ad that is now running in magazines. On the right, a frame from the photo shoot for said ad snapped by Demi’s husband Ashton Kutcher and posted on Twitter.
New York magazine’s “The Cut” enumerates the ways the ad’s image is fictional:
• Her cleavage appears sculpted and inflated.
• Her armpit is missing a prominent wrinkle.
• Her sternum has disappeared.
• Her hair is smoother and more voluminous.
• Her neck has no wrinkles.
• Actually, none of her has wrinkles.
On top of that, I’d add that her eye makeup appears smoothed and enhanced, her tan has disappeared, her Kabbalah bracelet has been removed, and her collarbone extends mysteriously all the way across her shoulder.
Nobody is denying that Demi Moore looks frigging incredible for 47, but there’s a fine line between incredible and not credible. And it’s been crossed.
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How dare you insinuate that Demi Moore did not come out of her mother’s baby-making oven with the slick, luminous-looking skin reminiscent of “My First Barbie”?
What about the bracelets? They look like they’re floating on her arm.
Somebody probably needs to take Ashton’s Twitter account away. Or at least his camera. Seriously thats all he does all day.
I actually think she looks cuter in the real pic – and anybody that can pull off “cut” when they’re knocking on 50’s door should be pretty happy with that.
but now we’ve all given Dummi & Asston more time than either deserve :\
Plastic surgery or not some of that HAS to be genetic. She looks 35 at the most on the right, and that’s not shopped. Is it? You can’t deny she looks awesome. Just look at Sharon Stone…
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/defamer/2008/09/AP080124055635.jpg
You know she’s had more work done than the Great Wall of China, and she ain’t even close.
Ashton’s photo of her looks, oh what’s the word, you know, the really bad one. Oh yeah. Human. Something no one ideally resembles in Hollywood.
Pasta,
Demi had a MAJOR overhaul in order to look “hot” in Charlie’s Angels; the pics of her from when she was secluded in Idaho prior to her big “comeback” would def not make your pants shrink.
“Demi had a MAJOR overhaul in order to look “hot” in Charlie’s Angels”
It worked.
I kinda would love to see what I’d look like photoshopped. I’d propbably be very pretty and then give my self a complex for not looking like that all the time. Never mind then.
they ’shopped out the kabbalah string too-and flipped the image
Don’t forget the man on her shoulder isn’t there.
In all fairness to the attorneys, they may have been telling the truth about photoshopping Demi Moore’s body. After all, it was not even her body in that picture.
http://deceiver.com/2009/11/24/demi-moore-insists-its-her-real-body-on-ws-cover/
Does anybody even remember what Demi’s actual line of work is supposed to be? Professional Photoshop-denier? Professional Hysterical Aging-Denier? Cougar? That’s about IT, right? She used to pretend, at least, to be an actress. I’m not saying she was good at it, but she was a lot better at pretending to act than she is at growing old gracefully. NOBODY BELIEVES HER. The only one she’s actually convinced is herself. She spends so much time denying that she is, in fact, getting older, visibly, that I can’t imagine she even has time to go to the bathroom or send a fax. Or go outdoors, or have sex, or eat a sandwich. It’s pitiful.
Hey, this is the gal who got breast implants for “Striptease.” There’s been no original construction for a loooong time.
I need to have my eyebrows photo “enhanced” like Demi’s
She had a complete overhaul on her body, but this woman has not done much to her face. I have met her in person, and she looks fucking fabulous.
I agree that pic is photoshopped to hell though.
Of course she looks better in the ‘real’ photo. Now, if they can just PhotoShop Ashton out of pictures…
Yeah, she definitely lost her credibility with that legal assault move. I guess she failed to see how unextraordinary photoshopping is in today’s society. She brought unwanted attention unto herself and her wrinkles.