This came from the Age, an Australian paper. It's very dismaying that this happens, but it does. And people wonder why lil' girls have body image issues. Boo, hiss to that Miramax official who may have signed off on the airbrushing.
Airbrushing an 'accident'
April 4 2003
Picture: AFP
Latifah arrives at the Academy Awards in Hollywood.
It's happened again. Not three months after GQ magazine embarrassed itself by airbrushing out Kate Winslet's curves for a cover shot, Miramax has done the same thing to Queen Latifah.
Miramax, the distributor for the Oscar-winning Chicago, admitted to Inside Edition that Queen Latifah's body was altered in a print ad for the film, blaming it on a "ratio mistake".
Inside Edition reported that when it contacted Miramax after noticing an unnaturally lithe Latifah in an ad, the company admitted it altered her body, saying it was an error.
A day after Inside Edition's inquiry, Miramax changed the ads; they now show Latifah in all her plus-sized glory.
Ad Week's national editor Jack Feuer said he wasn't surprised by the alteration.
"It happens all the time, especially in movie ads. I assume a 'ratio mistake' is what we in journalism call spin," he said.
- KRT
Queen Latifah airbrushed for ads
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