Celebs get photoshop makeovers

[mischief]

The media is often guilty of reinforcing the misconception that there is only one size of beauty out there for women, but a 20-year-old computer technician named George Lopera is using Photoshop in a very different way than most glossy magazines.

Instead of shaving off chunks of thigh, elongating limbs and clinching waists, Lopera is using the photo editing software to pack the pounds onto female celebrities to spread his vision that 'big is beautiful.'

In Lopera's own words, plucked from his Deviantart profile, he urges people to:

Look at my pictures and you will see that big is beautiful… but there are many people today who don’t agree with that… When they see my gorgeous, fat celebrities, I think they might realize how wrong they are

But what do you think when you look at the plus-sized photo editing below?

Do you think they are beautiful or this shaming these woman for their own bodies?

   

Katy Perry                                                                                                 Jennifer Lawrence

 
   Mila Kunis                                                                         Rita Ora


  
Kim Kardashian                                                                   Emma Watson

  
Iggy Azelia                                                                   Coby Smulders


  

[overture]

I think I would like this more if it were a tongue in cheek response to the way women are portrayed in the media.

Instead, the message is "look how I can make these women conform to the standard of beauty I like." Which is just as objectifying as anything else.

[theseaword]

Feb 23, 2015 4:07:11 GMT -5 overture said:

I think I would like this more if it were a tongue in cheek response to the way women are portrayed in the media.

Instead, the message is "look how I can make these women conform to the standard of beauty I like." Which is just as objectifying as anything else.

Agree with this. Just stop altering women's bodies, period.

[sassypantzz]

As always ctg30 is on point

[mrsbuttinski]

Eh.

That's not what "fat" (or "thin" for that matter) looks like IRL either. Where are the stretchmarks, the cellulite, scars, the swollen fingers and the cankles?

[shanadoo]

Either way it's stupid. Agree with overture.

[chelseamp11]

From a photoshop perspective, I think he did a great job.

That being said, I think photoshop is the worst thing ever when it comes to advertising when it alters a person's body. I remember reading somewhere (I think a meme on FB?) that said, "imagine how many companies would go out of business if women liked how they looked" or something like that. And I totally believe it. It makes me so angry that a plus sized model is still only a size 12 ish. We should be encouraging health, not looks. Some women are truly unhealthy in their weight. And it's not a "you are a size #, therefore you are unhealthy". There are women all over the spectrum that are unhealthy, as well as healthy.

[wallyworld]

Yeah, I agree that this isn't the way to address the issue at hand. Making skinny look fat is just as silly as making fat look skinny.

[triplea598]

Yeah. It's in a way shaming "thin" or "fit" women, and he altered their photos to conform to his idea of beauty. Just fucking let women look how they look or want to look and stop picking them apart.

I hate it because you can't win.
Like Kacey Musgraves sings "if you can't lose the weight then you're just fat, but if you lose too much then you're on crack. Damned if you do and you're damned if you don't so you might as well just do whatever you want."