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    Magazine admits to doctoring Kate Middleton cover

    Kate Middleton's waist was slimmed down on the cover of Grazia magazine. Photos by Getty Images; Grazia.Kate Middleton's waist was slimmed down on the cover of Grazia magazine. Photos by Getty Images; Grazia.Last April, nearly 750 million people tuned in to watch Prince William and Kate Middleton become the Duke and and Duchess of Cambridge, and- as much as folks seemed genuinely ecstatic about the union-the biggest story of the day quickly became the bride's immaculate white dress. The Alexander McQueen gown accentuated Middleton's small waist, which many speculated had been slimmed down for her big day.

    However, when a royal wedding photo of the bride appeared on the May 9th collectors' issue of Grazia magazine, it looked as if Kate's waist wasn't only slim, it had nearly disappeared.


    Related: Kate Middleton's $400,000 wedding dress


    The cover quickly drew public outrage and a complaint about the inaccuracy of the photo was registered with Britain's Press Complaints Commission. After an investigation (we're imagining they just looked at the photos!), the commission ruled that the magazine had in fact doctored the image. According to MSNBC, Grazia has confirmed the allegations.

    A spokesperson at the magazine explained that the re-touching SNAFU all started after the Grazia staff were unable to locate a solo shot of Middleton in her wedding dress. Magazine editors had trouble finding an image of the Duchess where she wasn't linked arm-in-arm with William. (You'll notice her arm is reaching up in the photo on the left). So they decided to create something that wasn't there. "This involved mirroring one of the duchess's arms and an inadvertent result of the change was the slimming of her waist," the Complaints Commission reported.

    Grazia made an apologetic statement, saying, "we did not purposely make any alterations to the Duchess of Cambridge's image to make her appear slimmer, and we are sorry if this process gave that impression." Though the whole scandal is actually rather silly, in a world where magazines are constantly depicting real women as thinner, lighter-skinned, and more wrinkle-free than they actually are, we can't help but appreciate Grazia's owning up to its error.

    In other royal wedding scandals, TLC's new "Crazy About Pippa" documentary claims that Kate Middleton's sister Pippa padded her now-famous backside to fill out her bridesmaid dress. Yes, Pippa's butt has Twitter and Facebook appreciation pages, but "experts" told TLC, that her behind has never looked as impressive as it did at the royal wedding. Really? Perhaps it's time we kindly step back, give the Middleton sisters a little privacy, and focus on our own body parts.

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    1,138 comments

    • Coco  •  9 months ago
      sounds like an innocent case of a photoshop mishap, in that they weren't actively trying to make her look thinner
    • Anwar  •  9 months ago
      Please no more talk about this girl unless she is flashing someone. I rather read about the trainwreck Lindsey Lohan, or her P.O.S parents. When is the mom going to do porn for money?
    • RoseBlood  •  9 months ago
      Who cares? Bloody hell just shut up about her, she is not important as she thinks. Would like to buy her for what she's worth and sell her for what she thinks she's worht!!!!
    • CrowsfeetCupcakesAndCellu ...  •  9 months ago
      She's stunning without being altered.
      www.crowsfeetcupcakesandcellulite.com
    • Nicole  •  9 months ago
      Magazine's doctoring pictures is nothing new, and if a woman is going to let a magazine cover determine how she feels about herself she is probably unstable to begin with! I am a size 10 and I'm completely good with that. There are beautiful women in all shapes and sizes, can we get over hollering about doctored pictures please? This is not a big deal, really! And for those of you who are going to say "What about our daughters?" Well, here's the thing...raise them to feel that there are more important parts of a person rather than just thier looks such as oh, I don't know? Empathy, compassion, tolerance? Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think so!
    • Mr LOL  •  9 months ago
      joanna douglas: how much does yahoo pay you to blog?
    • Liz  •  9 months ago
      I really appreciate this article and articles on the subject of media images of women (and men too). We need to care. Read the works of Jean Kilbourne and Susan Bordo. Photoshopping of any female public figure has lasting damaging effects on the perception, development, enculturation and social expectations of women. Eating disorders are an epidemic and people are dieing from cosmetic surgery. The emphasis we place on image has become (has always been, ie: Narcissus) sick. The cover of a magazine is what sells it; these folks knew what they were doing.
    • AL  •  9 months ago
      there burning down half of london and people are worried about a picture !
    • Solar Child  •  9 months ago
      This "skinny obsession" IS A FAUTLY PRECEDENT. Why? Because nature selects "against" skinny
      women as evidenced by those cultures who have sinced passed on never to return. Primitive societies
      recognized for women to be wide and strong just as a means for survival. For example, middle eastern
      tribal societies exemplified in the bible had less nutritious food available as animal protein was quite costly. The lack of protein in the diets of women led to infertility problems. Of course as societies become more afluent the "important" lessons of the past are pushed aside and always responding
      "well today is different" and as it was then as it is now still a "foolish answer".
    • old secretary  •  9 months ago
      Those who read this magazine, let's all say it together. "I'm being manipulated and too ignorant to know it."
    • Just Julie  •  9 months ago
      Good lord, she was already thin enough! Geez!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 months ago
      for all the people saying "we should be more concerned about all the bad things about this world, who cares, etc." didn't YOU click this story and read it? Go read your sad depressing stuff ONLY, we all know there's stuff going down in this world that's bad but not everything is...I'm glad you don't control the news
    • brian  •  9 months ago
      good god people...if you do not like what is written, do not read it! if it's depressing news you want, there's plenty of it and you don't have to look hard to find it! ffs!
    • Leecee  •  9 months ago
      Derick & JR go home. Your mom is caling. Pray and ask God not to let you wake up as stupid as you were today.LOL
    • Leecee  •  9 months ago
      Answer to Caliguy No, You're welcome.
    • Leecee  •  9 months ago
      Caliguy who is "we"? You can or is someone holding a gun to your head?
    • Leecee  •  9 months ago
      She is beautiful and needs no "photo shop".
    • Derick  •  9 months ago
      still to fat, disgusting
    • atari  •  9 months ago
      i want a threesome with kate and pippa.PERIOD.
    • Austine  •  9 months ago
      I still can't find the NEWS????

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