Kiss My Assets

With props to friend Marc Weisblott who tweeted this, gotta say I love this:  Kim Kardashian, one of those young beauties basically famous for being rich, beautiful and famous, elegantly snaps back at the critics of her ''cellulite.''

She is on the cover of Life & Style weekly, hands on hip, in a bikini, in an ''100% unretouched'' shot.

The cutline?

''I have cellulite, so what?''

After being called fat,  Kim declares, "This is the real me, I love my body. You should love yours, too.''

Unfortunately, the mag has disabled the right-click features so I can't pin the photo here. You'll have to click on the link above to see the pic.

But thanks to the magic of the Internet, unflattering photos of Kardashian are everywhere.

The thing is, the whole brouhaha started because, in another shoot, her photos were drastically retouched -- and the magazine published both the before and after. Which, I must say, was not a bad move (if you are being super generous, at least), because it shows women how celebrities get the benefit of lighting, photoshopping and airbrushing.

I like what she has done with the latest shoot though. So I'm posting a pretty picture of her.

Even if it's probably retouched.

Comments

[...pat.]

She's gorgeous! She doesn't need retouching!

[Sebastian Stoker]

Anyone can look terrible with bad lighting, and when a photo is taken from a lousy angle. And a good model and photographer can produce a photo that does not really need retouching or photoshopping. All the technical wizardry is more about geek culture - annoying little boys playing with their expensive silly toys - than anything else.

[neko]

I will agree that photoshopping has been taken way too far. Magazines are plastered with pictures of people who are 25% human and 75% CGI. This gives an impossible standard of beauty for men and women.

But speaking as someone who has had acne (both regular kind and the kind that isn't really acne, but some kind of hair-follicle issue that can never be cured) since age 5... I love photoshop. Professionally altered pictures are the only image of myself I have ever seen where I look normal.

Any yes, I am aware of my hypocrisy.

[Sebastian Stoker]

The people who work in the extremes of digital photo retouching or film special effects make no secret of the big ambition: to eventually make human models and actors obsolete, replacing them with computer-generated beings.

We think our culture now has a problem with a beauty myth and body issues? We ain't seen nothing yet!

[Wascally Wabbit]

Hard to say - not knowing whether this is untouched or not.
But - looking at this photo - I'd say this lady tends towards skinny - and looking at her legs - must visit the gym occasionally - or get exercise in some other way - they certainly are not flabby.
I'm sure some guy who posts as Bingocaller would be happy to put her photo up!