Jennifer Lawrence Photoshop GIF: 2011 Flare Cover of Hunger Games Star Stirs Controversy
The fight to put down the computer spray brush continues as the latest victim of unnecessary and obvious Photoshopping is The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence. A new GIF taking the web by storm shows the actress trimmed, chopped and "perfected" for the cover of Flare magazine.
In 2011, Lawrence posed for the cover of Flare, but apparently the stunning photo was not good enough for the magazine. A GIF that flashes between what is allegedly the original photo and what the magazine printed on their cover shows dramatic differences. Lawrence's body is slimmed, her cleavage is shadowed to appear bigger, her hair is altered to become more voluminous and her eyes almost look like they belong to someone else.
It appears that editors do not care what celebrities think because Lawrence has been public about her distaste of Photoshop.
"The world has this idea that if you don't look like an airbrushed perfect model. You have to see past it. You look how you look, you have to be comfortable," Lawrence told Yahoo! "What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That's just dumb."
Lawrence even wanted her full body to be shown in The Hunger Games, even in the book, her character is malnourished and assumedly thin.
"...It was a big discussion, 'cause it's called The Hunger Games. She's from District 12. She's obviously underfed, so she would be incredibly thin, but I just kept saying, 'We have the ability to control this image that young girls are going to be seeing,'" Lawrence told BBC. "Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations, and this is gonna be their hero and we have control over that."
Lawrence isn't the only one who sees the harm in Photoshop. Recently, "Pretty Little Liars" star Ashley Benson spoke out about an obviously Photoshopped poster for her show.
"Our faces in this were from 4 years ago.....and we all look ridiculous," Benson said via Instagram. "Way too much photo shop. We all have flaws. No one looks like this. It's not attractive."