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• Thursday, June 7, 2007 10:49 AM

  She doesn't look like that--those photos are heavily airbrushed!

  I have read all the letters, and can't honestly believe that no one else has brought this up. There's A LOT of airbrushing going on in those pictures. In some of them, which are less airbrushed, you can see a little of the contours caused by cellulite. In others, these have been entirely digitally polished away.

  Also, you'll notice that very rarely is she posed so that you can see her stomach face-on. In the other poses, it's very easy to slim a body a little to add an extra little concavity to the stomach, to make the body look thinner--particularly if it's in shadow. In the few poses where you can see her stomach face-on, there are contours there which have clearly been added.

  A while ago, someone sent me a link to a graphic designer's portfolio which showed the before-and-after resulrs of airbrushing/touch-ups. The differences were really astounding--I'll never look at magazine photos the same way again. (I have tried in vain to find the link, but can't.) Many of the models were African-American--I think one of them may have been Buffie, but I had no idea who she was at the time. I do remember the style of the shots was similar to the ones on fhe site. If it was her, there is A LOT more fat on her than these images would suggest.

  Who knows what this woman really looks like, and how fat--or healthy--she is?

  —area woman Read area woman's other letters
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