Mariah Carey's "New" Body
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Mariah Carey has gotten us through tough times with her song "We Belong Together." That's why it's so unfortunate to see her unwittingly star in the worst Photoshop job we've seen in a long time. "Her New Body," exclaims the Elle cover line. It certainly is! It's not even hers. Sure, she slimmed down—but not that much, as you'll see from our photo gallery. Also: her head has been re-attached to her body crookedly, making her resemble a Bobblehead. Come on, Elle: it's like you're not even trying. The many Photoshop horrorshows trotted out before the magazine-buying public is astounding for two reasons.
First of all, you would have think they've gotten the technique down by now. I mean, we can land a man on the moon, but we can't do a subtle-yet-miraculous Photoshop job? In fact, we probably can. It's just that the people working at fashion magazines are so divorced from reality that they're not even sure what a good/bad/reasonable Photoshop job/human body is even supposed to look like anymore.
Secondly, one might think that women's magazines would be more aware that their audience is on to them by now—if only because a variety of blogs, including this one, now run Photoshop hatchet jobs as a matter of course. Their audiences may not have any control over the images they're fed, but they can at least comment and call attention to their mistakes in a large forum.
("I didn't know nothin', I was stupid, I was foolish, I was lying to myself..."-Mariah Carey)
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