Liz Hurley: PhotoShop Me, Baby!

Liz Hurley says that she likes being PhotoShopped, and no, that's not a euphemism for anything really interesting, it's just her way of saying that if there's some way of looking skinnier without diet or exercise, hell yeah she's into that.

Which, you know, you kinda have commend her for. Her honesty, that is. I mean, yeah, okay, the world would be a much better place if we all chilled the fack out about our bodies and learned to love the cellulite, but seeing as that isn't going to happen so long as D-list celebudorks keep peddling black satin short-shorts, it's at least something if a celebrity comes out and admits that a) her body isn't perfect, and b) nothing short of some high-tech digital imaging is going to make it perfect.

At the recent launch of her new swimwear line, Hurley said that she welcomes appearing “a bit thinner and a bit younger” after posing in a bikini for photoshoots. “Shooting bikinis is now my life, which as you can imagine is unmitigated hell. But if you signed on for the gig, sadly, you have to go and be jolly in a skimpy white bikini. So now I rely on nice photographers and a certain amount of retouching."

She lost me a bit at 'unmitigated hell' - hell is wrangling a screaming toddler through a snowy parking lot in the dead of winter while seven months pregnant, or being forced to look at pictures of Heidi Montag's new clothing line, not jetting off to the Caribbean to lounge around in bikinis - but whatever. Liz Hurley admits that she isn't totally comfortable in bikinis and that she relies upon the kindness of photographers and digital artists to look magazine-worthy in a bikini and that, my friends, makes me feel just a little bit better about the world this morning.

That she also says that she got her pre-partum body back by eating six raisins a day and skipping all meals except dinner kinda harshes that particular mellow, but I'm try to cut down on thinking too hard before I've had my coffee, so I'm just going to pretend for now that I didn't read that part.

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Comments

[Trish]

Six raisins a day and nothing else till dinner? I can vent for an hour about this post but I will not allow myself to do that (or subject anyone else to my seething rage). We all know the issues young girls (and not so young women)have with perceived poor body image. So, to hear someone yap about her ridiculous and unhealty way of getting her figure back is just horrible. I wish celebrities and magazine publishers, for that matter, had the gumption to use REAL photographs. Wouldn't the world be a better place if we all could relate to one anothers imperfections and not someone else's version of ideal?

[b]

Blah blah blah. I will NEVER look like a celeb, and I would never buy a suit that I saw on a model. I'm so over the whole "body image" bull shit. As long as my husband wants a piece, I'm good.

(Well, except for my gray hair. That shit ain't cool.)