NEWS: Top 5 Most Digitally Altered Body Parts
Last Updated (Wednesday, 03 March 2010 22:58)
Plastic surgeons are faced with some impossible tasks these days when their clients come in with a picture of a celebrity saying "I want to look like THIS!" Impossible because the pictures are digitally re-touched. “Many magazines, billboards and advertisements falsely portray cultural icons by ‘doctoring’ images that are viewed by the public,” says Dr. Brian S. Glatt, MD, FACS of Premier Plastic Surgery Center of New Jersey. ”Women look at these photos and ask their surgeons to make them look “just like them”. This is usually impossible as the desired body doesn’t even exist!” Here, Dr. Glatt talks about the Top 5 Most Photo-shopped Body Parts.
Top 5 Most Re-Touched Body Parts
1. Breasts: In photos, it seems as though every supermodel and celebrity has perfect curvature on her chest by the way their assets are accentuated. “Most of these appearances are a result of a push-up bra, supportive undergarments and digital retouching,” says Dr. Glatt. “Breast implants are pervasive throughout the modeling profession, and are usually easily spotted as someone “supermodel-thin” does not suddenly develop C-cup breasts. In addition, implants in very thin women appear more rounded than teardrop shaped and can be pushed up to create a full high cleavage area.”
2. Waist: To make celebs look even thinner than they are in person, many are photo shopped so the sides of their body actually becomes an extra shadow or gets blended in 
with the background. “If they really looked like this,” says Dr. Glatt, “their torso would likely not be able to adequately support their shoulders. Although aggressive liposuction techniques can create a much slimmer waist and take off inches, even liposuction cannot create some of the digitally altered and corset-assisted “cartoon-type” waists which we frequently see in magazines.”
3. Skin tone: At times, it almost appears that though A-listers are always in front of a bright light that illuminates their skin and rids all imperfections leaving a glowing skin tone. “Skin surface retouching is the most common and one of the original digital alterations performed routinely. No one’s skin can be completely perfected without a line, wrinkle, blemish or brown spot. Almost anyone who has had photographs taken for a big life event (such as a wedding, etc.) knows that even those photos will be “retouched”. People tend not to consider this when emulating the skin characteristics of those in magazines and ads.” Dr. Glatt continues, “these photos show completely perfect skin which in real life is impossible to achieve to that extent – which is evidenced when celebrities are captured in real life unre-touched.”
4 & 5. Arms/Thighs: Some celeb photos have their extremities slimmed and trimmed so much that they appear to be the size of a toothpick. There are photos out there where the elbows appear to be the same width of their biceps and their knees seem to be the same width of their thighs. According to Dr. Glatt, if this were really how their arms and legs looked, “then they would not work right to walk to pick things up! The trouble with altering the arms and legs in a photo is that it does look so entirely fake. People get the impression that this look can be achieved with surgery which is typically not possible or safe.”
Brian S. Glatt, MD, FACS is a premier, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon serving the New Jersey and New York Metropolitan Area. Dr. Glatt is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). He is licensed to practice plastic and reconstructive surgery in New Jersey and New York.
PHOTO CREDITS: Complex Magazine, RedBook Magazine
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