Complex Cleans Up Cover Girl Kim Kardashian
Marc Ecko shopazine, Complex, created quite a stir when they released their April/May issue that featured a CGI rendering of Kanye West on the cover, transforming the rapper from a black man into a silver-skinned cyborg. But he wasn’t the only one getting the technological treatment, it looks like their retouchers did a bunch of work on cover girl Kim Kardashian too. We spotted this image (left) of the talentless starlet this morning in their “web exclusive” gallery, but by afternoon she was looking recognizably altered (right) and then removed from the site completely. UPDATE: Kim responds on her blog.
by Bucky Turco on March 24, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Editor-in-Chief:
BUCKY, YOU KNOW DAMN WELL MAGAZINE EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS THINK SKINNY WHITE GIRLS SELL MORE THAN DARK AND CURVY GIRLS. ONLY MAGAZINES KEEPING IT SANE IS ESSENCE OR EBONY.
You are pathetic. It’s such a small amount of work that was done to clean up the image. She’s still thick and beautiful!
Nah, she’s still a fat hoe
Thats gross
got tuleste’d!
true, they lightened her skin tone but overall they didn’t do that much work…i’ve seen some excessively retouched photos and this is definitely not one of them…they barely did anything…if you want to see retouching check this out…
http://fc39.deviantart.com/fs40/f/2009/021/9/4/Madonna__Retouch_by_toxictwo.jpg
Not a lot of work done.
talentless indeed!
if you only noticed the lightened skin and cropped body then they did a better job than you give credit for. the suit was highlighted in some area and dimmed in others. the fringe was altered too. pretty much: her face was untouched (minus brightness and contrast), her hair and chest. but, thats the magic of makeup and push-ups and tape.
jason –
How about just normal sized girls in any color?
These girls today either look like they haven’t eaten in years or they look like they ate it all, like her.
In the 70s people told us if we looked inappropiate, no one does it anymore because somewhere in the 80s some loon decided (Oprah) we should make our young women accept their bodies, no matter how ridiculous they really look.
It’s tragic. And she looks like some Beyonce wannabee anyway. If I were her I would hunt down the stylist on that shoot, they made her into a laughing stock.
“or they look like they ate it all, like her.” you, fair, are a nut. really.
Wow Madonna looks rough.
who cares she is still amazingly hot all u fucks should get life’s… g’s no one is perfect
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Are you sure that Madonna photo isn’t a retouching to make her look OLDER? I’m pretty sure it is. Original posting has the pics in the opposite order. http://baruschka.deviantart.com/art/Madonna-retouch-112093232
who cares what they did with the photo…. her 15 minutes are about up.. hopefully!
You guys listen, I’ve been on numerous sets for high fashion photoshoots with top agency models, actresses, actors, etc as a hair and makeup artist. My husband is also a photographer and master retoucher who works for these types of jobs. When I started out, I was amazed at how impossibly thin and tall and young the girls where in person, the victoria secret types even…. Those where the girls I was starving myself to look like in highschool… At 5′2″ with a 34-24-34 frame I thought I was disgustingly fat! Now I know better…. All of the images we see in magazines, ALL of them, are retouched. Girls that are crazy skinny still have their thighs, waists, arms “shaved down” in final images!!!!
Some of them have an arm, leg, head swapped from a different shot of the same person for artistic presentation…. Breasts are sometimes enlarged, lifted, skin tone highlighted, shadows burned in….
Bottom line is: even the most beautiful people in the world don’t look like what you see in magazines or catalogs… It’s impossible even for them. It’s not cool and I wish all women in our society could know this fact. Why do art directors insist on presenting unattainable perfection to the masses? Money. They want you and me to be obsessed with their product/celebrity client so that you will give them your hard earned money…. I agree with Oprah and whoever else is out there saying women need to. Be comfortable with and love their bodies. What guy truly enjoys being around a girl who is obsessed with her “shortcomings” appearance wise so much that it’s all she seems to complain about or is so insecure that she is paranoid? When you see these celebrities that are being picked on for being too fat like Kim or Jennifer Love Hewitt or Jessica Simpson in person, you’d realize that they are extremely hot and sexy small to average sized women!!! I get looks all the time as a woman who is 36-25-35 and a size 2 but I can guarantee that as a celebrity I’d be maligned by the press…. Screw that! All of you out there that want to criticize these gals need to take a look deep inside and contemplate why you are so critical of others…. Maybe you’ve been mislead by the media and need to stop demanding the impossible of yourselves and others…. I do truly think our society would be a better place if we could accept ourselves and other as valuable and unique human beings instead of constantly looking for faults in each other.
Enough said…
They didn’t lighten her skin, they fixed the white balance on the photo. You can see in the background of the first picture that the gray is noticeably warmer than in the retouched photo. However, they did a beautiful job painting over all that cellulite.
I’m really kinda neutral when it comes to Kim K. I’m a black woman and I’ve heard that she loves black MEN but can’t stand black WOMEN because she feels likes she prettier and better than any black woman. I think she looks great in these pics. I see the retouching but I don’t think they lightened her complexion to make her appear more white but her natural color has a red tone to it. It looks like they just complimented her complexion with a more bronze color. Altho we all know she had booty implants, I don’t know about breast implants. Her breasts look too perfect and too natural. That big ole AZZ on the other hand looks completely FAKE!!!
Madonna’s definitely a re-touch:
http://karenmag.blogspot.com/2009/01/madonna-un-retouched.html
The photo has been heavily photoshopped….
We all know that Kim is not like this at all.
She has a pretty face, but she is very short and chubby (tummy+legs)
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She had a CELLULITE REMOVAL on season 1 of KUWTK!
So, no surprise!!!
Is it just me or have they made her loo like Beyonce?
there is a massive amount of work done here, even the crinkles in her clothes are smoothed and her stomach is smaller…
really this is a perfect example of why so many girls have unrealistic expectations for their bodies, everyone who took part on this photoshoot should be ashamed of themselves..
I DEF agree with Robin…EVERYBODY is photoshopped.
Freaking Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz aren’t perfect.
Check this out…
http://www.iwanexstudio.com/
copy and paste the link and click on “portfolio”
You’ll be amazed and also feel better about yourself
sooo…. it does look like cottage cheese?
PhotoShop is way cool. I wish it were available to use in real life, in person. I’d redo everyone. I also wish there was a real-life brain-fixing software. I’d fix most of the people who comment on these blogs. Have a nice day. Or not.
They’ve also lightened her skin. weird.
That is so stupid.why alter a picture of kims real and beautiful curvy self?.
She’s not the skinniest but she’s not fat.
Let her be seen how she really is
There’s no shame!..I love her..
she’s bloody hot! I would nail her anyway!
If people think THIS is fat, they have some major problems! I think for those who do think she looks fat in either of these photos, retouched or not, you’re just too used to sickly looking super-skinny girls who get all the publicity and attention. This is NOT FAT in any sense of the word. This is healthy!
I wanna lick his pussy
Oh my budha. Original picture with cellulite would have been better. I don’t like any dolly type of ladies.
oh my gosh, I have cellulite too and have never had it before age 20. I’m not that fat either, probably 120 lbs, but I never check anyway. I’m 23 now and after you get to a certain age, you just get it, it doesn’t mean that you are fat or anything.
Yeah, it looks like they airbrushed a little nip slip out of the photo as well haha
I keep reading all these comments and one thing stands out above all else. Everyone has an opinion and it really doesn’t matter. So what the girls got cellulite. Who doesn’t? We all have it, even when we don’t want to admit it. We can put down the famous people because it makes us fell better about our own problems. Truth is we need to clean out our back yards before we can try to comment on someone elses. Leave that girl alone. If she wants to flaunt her cellulite for all to see that’s her business. If she doesn’t care, why should we. I don’t see people ranting and racing about the three hundred ound tourists they saw last week in Hawaii or on the beaches in Miami. You don’t see that because the over weight tourists aren’t famous. If they were we would be reading about what they bought in the grocery store and how much weight they have gained or lost in the last thirty days. I think we all need a dose of reality and take back control of our lives and leave others to thier own demise. It’s coming sooner or later and I for one want no part of the hollywood meltdown. I have better sense than that.
My thies are just like hers. Not too bad.
Yuck. Her thighs look disgusting. Seriously, hit the gym – you have no talent, you are stupid, the least you can do is have a body worth banging.
Bulimia would be a good idea. For all you ‘thick girl’ defenders here – go buy a clue. 90% of those who claim to be thick are plain old obese, and 100% of those that ARE thick will end up the victims of gravity after 10 years. How many hot, thick 35 year olds do you know? If you aren’t watching what you eat and hitting the gym regularly, you fail.
Yeah. This are small changes. Look for other celebrities… even your grandmother looks better.
They better clean that photo up. That girl looks like she got a solid foundation for a good beginnning for some really good cottage cheese a** & thighs.
Yea, good idea there Ben. Tell girls to be bulimic. I personally wouldn’t want a girl with any kind of eating disorder. When you get those types, you get nothing but chicks with psychological problems. Of course, I guess that type would be great for you.
“At least you can do is have a body worth banging?” Are you serious? It’s men like you that give the rest of us guys a bad name. *facepalm*
Who the hell is Kim Kardashian?
The jessica alba example is much worse! This isnt as bad. Mostly to tighten the clothes around edges and the tone. See the Alba one that was edited, it was crazy
About 70 lbs of KK’s thighs are missing from both pics. I love Photo Shop, hey!
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Every image you see in a magazine like that will be significantly retouched, normal human skin is not blemish free and has things like pores and hairs (it’d be pretty terrible skin if it didn’t) and ALL skin has other flaws too.
It’s important to remember that even though models are layered with make-up they still need retouching – often significantly – to adhere to the flawless, inhuman images in these magazines. It is a vicious circle, since we are all so used to the image of plastic skinned, inhuman models publications cannot simply stop retouching, since no-one would buy the magazine!
The result is that people think that ‘beautiful’ people look like that, and it makes everyone (including the models – since they look human in real life) less beautiful – which is a truly sad thing.
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Ben, you sound like an overweight loser whith unrealistic ideals of what beauty is. You were probably picked on by your peers, rejected by women (and men) and have such a low opinion of yourself you think it makes you sound cool to be such a try-hard dick in your blog. Men like you NEVER get laid & when you finally nail a girl she’s far from your perfect ideal cos you’ll take what you deserve which isn’t much. Loser.
Let’s face it…we live in a world where photos get edited/retouched due to the critical eye of the media and the people. Celeb’s are put on a pedestal and when we find out that they are human (or have cellulite), whichever comes first, we attack. Kim is unbelievably beautiful and famous for it…so what! Why don’t we all focus on the positive in that this girl was given an opportunity to make something more of her life then just being the daughter of a wealthy family.
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