{"id":7212,"date":"2011-01-15T09:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T13:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7212"},"modified":"2011-01-15T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T15:46:48","slug":"indian-model-photoshopped-against-her-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/indian-model-photoshopped-against-her-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian model photoshopped against her will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that most of the images used for magazine covers have had a healthy dose of Photoshoppery, but <a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2011\/01\/elle_cover_lightens_the_most_beautiful_woman_in_the_world.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+racewireblog+%28ColorLines%29\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is a few filters too far:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/elle_magazine_skin_lightening.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"elle_magazine_skin_lightening\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/elle_magazine_skin_lightening.jpg 640w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/elle_magazine_skin_lightening-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/elle_magazine_skin_lightening-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Leave it to <em>ELLE<\/em> Magazine to photochop the world\u2019s most beautiful woman. Aishwarya Rai, the reigning queen of Indian cinema, model and classically trained dancer is currently on the cover of <em>ELLE India<\/em> &mdash; several shades lighter. Rai\u2019s skin has been lightened and her dark brown hair appears to have a red tint to it.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Times of India<\/em> reported the former Miss World is \u201cfurious with the bleaching botch-up\u201d and is considering taking legal action against <em>ELLE<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>ELLE<\/em>\u2019s mission is to make women \u201cchic and smart, guide their self-expression, and encourage their personal power,\u201d but their recent covers could lead readers to believe that \u201cchic, smart and personal empowerment\u201d only comes to those with light skin. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TimHarford\/statuses\/26198914713518080\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Harford<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that most of the images used for magazine covers have had a healthy dose of Photoshoppery, but this is a few filters too far: Leave it to ELLE Magazine to photochop the world\u2019s most beautiful woman. Aishwarya Rai, the reigning queen of Indian cinema, model and classically trained dancer is currently on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,23,28,15],"tags":[336,477,439,99,43],"class_list":["post-7212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-india","category-media","category-technology","tag-fashion","tag-magazines","tag-photoshop","tag-racism","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Sk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7216,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}