Drew Barrymore Is So Airbrushed On This Magazine Cover, You Won’t Even Recognize Her
You know how sometimes, a magazine puts a photo of a very famous celebrity on its cover but makes them so unrecognizable with Photoshop that you’re not even sure why it bothered to get that celeb in the first place? For its February 2015 issue, More Magazine opted to airbrush Drew Barrymore so much on its cover, she barely has skin:
Uhhhhh. While I am so down with that smokey eye, I genuinely did not recognize her. “The game-changing power of being authentic” seems a little bizarre when juxtaposed with a totally inauthentic image of the human it is supposedly about. After all, this is what Drew actually looks like:
(Left Photo: Brian To/WENN.com)
See how her face has texture? And looks like a real face? And how she looks like she’s almost 40 (i.e. the age she turns next month)? There’s nothing wrong with looking 40, by the way, yet magazines still insist on airbrushing female celebs’ images to shreds, while older on magazines are allowed to have wrinkles and gray hair because it makes them look “rugged” and “experienced.”
(Related: Woman’s Day Magazine Photoshops Kate Middleton Into An Unrecognizable Zombie For Its Cover)
Drew is known for her dynamic charisma and her unique sense of style (that often gets critiqued for being the opposite of boring); it seems a shame that More decided to turn her into somebody else for its cover. And oddly enough, she looks more like her brunette sister in Ever After than herself.
Interestingly, Women’s Wear Daily‘s story mentioning the cover explains that the magazine, which recently lost around 550,000 readers after increasing its subscription price, is planning an “overhaul” in an effort to raise the quality and attract advertisers, as its readers are apparently soooo ~*exclusive:
“We are not a magazine for all women between the ages of 35 and 54,” [More publisher Jeannine Shao] Collins said. “We are a magazine for who we like to call ‘the fabulous women.’ We like to keep it to those women who are professional, managerial, with a really high income.”
The publisher said that income hovers around $110,000 a year, which is the highest average income of any women’s magazine.
Do those “fabulous women” have an idea what real human beings look like? Unless More‘s revamp plan involves enticing high-income mannequins to become readers, I can’t imagine this is the type of image that will attract women with vision that’s decent or above.
To read More‘s interview with Drew–which is actually cool, as she is a very cool lady–check that out on its site!
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