America Ferrera on Glamour Cover: Digitally Created Déjà Vu

Here’s Ugly Betty star America Ferrera, painstakingly Photoshopped and sporting Versace on the cover of the October issue of Glamour.  That’s quite a juxtaposition of Ferrera's computer-slimmed figure with the headline “1st Annual Figure Flattery Issue!”  Well, whose figure wouldn’t be flattered by a digital diet? 

Also, we could swear we’ve seen that dress before.

Oh, that’s because we have!  Here’s Jessica Simpson wearing the same dress in a different hue (and with slightly different straps) from the August cover of Bazaar.

Our verdict?  We prefer the purple.  Also, we prefer that if a magazine is going to tell us how to “dress [our] body better,” that magazine might want to demonstrate by dressing an actual body for the cover.  Just a thought!

Comments

[alli]

How disappointing that Glamour is going overboard with photo editing. America doesn't even look like her usual, beautiful self. Very shallow of Glamour to manipulate the "cover girl" to this extent, to sell issues. A little touch-up is one thing, but to make someone look like a completely different person is flat out lying to readers. Ironic that the lead line on the cover is about dressing your body better, when the magazine didn't have the courage to show America's real body.

[cavalllilovesme]

America looks thinner than Jessica does on her cover. I can't believe she would even let them photoshop her that much especially since she's always going on about how she loves being curvacious & wants to set a good example for her fans. This cover annoys me it's horrible.

[Trendini]

I am surprised that Glamour would stoop so low as the photoshop her. It seems a bit hypocritical of them... we all know America is slightly heavier than that and hiding her real body just makes me want to honestly stop my subscription...

[laylaness]

America doesn't even look proportional on that cover. Everyone knows she is proud to have a normal body; I don't know who Glamour thinks they're fooling. That's like Photoshopping 20 pounds onto Kate Moss.

[Blurgle]

They didn't photoshop her body: they put her head on someone else's body.

[Chrissy]

I'm thrilled America (deservingly) garners a Fall cover, even if they made her look like a bobblehead. The dress mixup just proves how stale American mags have become. How hard can it be for these editors to chose an original outfit??

[moi]

Seriously, just how creepy do her arms and hands look? Like they're about to develop a life of their own and spring off the page to choke the scrawny little neck of the art editing arse who did this to her? We could only hope.

[Emily]

Pffffffffft America's real body is far hotter. Here they've made her skinnier than Salma Hayek- another curvaceous hottie whose women's-mag photos too often suffer overuse of photoshop.