# Amy Purdy - oh my, a question about the Photoshopping **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970 "2015-01-04T20:02:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/1 "2015-01-04T20:02:15Z")
Just to be safe, I better warn everyone its not safe for work. [Amy Purdy, double amputee, conquers Paralympics, ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and going naked: memoir – New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/amy-purdy-double-amputee-conquers-paralympics-dancing-article-1.2065169) Click the photo for a full screen image. The naughty bits are discreetly hidden, but theres a shapely bare butt on display. She’s ok if you like muscular, hard-bodied women. Definitely not my type. I like cuddly women. YMMV Is that a photoshop fail on her right arm? I’ve never seen an arm and forearm that looked anything like that before. Especially where its oddly squeezed at the elbow. Looks like a drumstick with fingers. She’s had a lot of surgery. Spleen removed and a kidney transplant. They must of used Photoshop for the surgical scarring. She’s overcome a lot. She’s a tough lady. She doesn’t leave the blades on during sex? 😃 I guess sharp metal up in the air might ruin the moment. > [@](#): > > The first time she had sex with an old flame, Purdy was somewhat unnerved. > > “Taking off your clothes is one thing. Taking off your clothes and your legs is an entirely different matter. . . . I felt so vulnerable and exposed, more naked than you could ever feel. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/2 "2015-01-04T20:13:06Z")
Look at her left arm, just as muscled. If anything, the right arm looks slightly smaller though it’s most likely the way the arm is turned. Looks like a normal arm to me. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/3 "2015-01-04T20:20:51Z")
Oh man, I meant the left arm. The one way up in the air. The drumstick forearm is pinched in at the elbow… ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/4 "2015-01-04T20:25:43Z")
Looks normal to me as well. She _might_ have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome to a small degree, which can make the elbow look somewhat hyper-extended. I have it, to a not large degree. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/5 "2015-01-04T20:27:23Z")
here’s a typical muscular arm. elbow isn’t pinched in. Its symmetrical. [![](http://www.criticalbench.com/images/forearm-strength1.jpg) ](http://www.criticalbench.com/images/forearm-strength1.jpg) \ maybe it is just the angle in Amy’s photo. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/6 "2015-01-04T20:31:28Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > here’s a typical muscular arm. elbow isn’t pinched in. Its symmetrical. > [http://www.criticalbench.com/images/forearm-strength1.jpg](http://www.criticalbench.com/images/forearm-strength1.jpg) That’s a guy. And the arm is at a completely different angle and it’s flexed and lifting a weight. [Pinched in at the elbow (right arm)](http://www.bodybuilding-pics.com/66/images/Casey_Viator_51.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/7 "2015-01-04T20:34:06Z")
\ maybe it is just the angle in Amy’s photo. Theres not much definition between the bicep and triceps. Makes it look a bit odd from that angle. At first I thought that was her elbow, but her arm is rotated the other way. Super muscular people with no body fat always look a bit odd to me. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/8 "2015-01-04T20:41:38Z")
Same arm without the shiny baby oil. She looks like a normal person here. Scroll down to her ballgown photo. Normal arm. Not Superwoman. > **[Amy Purdy rushed to the hospital for shoulder injury after ‘Dancing with the...](https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/amy-purdy-dancing-shoulder-injury-article-1.1773011)** > > Amy Purdy is recovering from a shoulder injury she suffered during Monday's episode of "Dancing with the Stars." She looks really nice in the ballgown. ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/9 "2015-01-04T21:10:45Z")
I have to say that I am so enlightened that on first viewing all I saw was a strong, beautiful woman, and did not even notice her circumstance. :smack: But, yeah, a well defined forearm will bulge out like a drumstick. It is not as common with women, but normal. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/10 "2015-01-05T05:57:18Z")
“Not my type…” _Ha!_ That’s good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![SmallBrownBurro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@SmallBrownBurro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmallBrownBurro)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/11 "2015-01-05T06:09:34Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > “Not my type…” _Ha!_ That’s good stuff. I’m sure Ms. Purdy will be devastated. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/12 "2015-01-05T06:36:36Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Oh man, I meant the left arm. The one way up in the air. The drumstick forearm is pinched in at the elbow… The elbow looks okay to me, but the left forearm and wrist look awfully skinny. But then, why would they photoshop someone’s wrist? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/13 "2015-01-05T06:57:07Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > That’s a guy. > And the arm is at a completely different angle and it’s flexed and lifting a weight. > > [Pinched in at the elbow (right arm)](http://www.bodybuilding-pics.com/66/images/Casey_Viator_51.jpg). Like the man in running coach’s photo, she has somewhat hypertrophied forearm muscles and is flexing her wrist inward. That’s bulging the forearm a bit, and it’s even more noticeable with her forearm fully extended. ETA: Also, the upper arm isn’t actually thinner, it’s just turned such that it’s showing a thin profile to the camera. It’s probably as simple as that. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/14 "2015-01-05T07:31:58Z")
What - you want me to look at her left forearm? That’s about the last thing I looked at. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/15 "2015-01-05T16:00:05Z")
Thanks everyone for your comments. It seems likely her muscular forearm is normal for an athlete in her sport. The odd angle threw me for a moment. Photoshop fails threads can be fun to discuss but this isn’t one of them. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amy-purdy-oh-my-a-question-about-the-photoshopping/708970/16 "2015-01-05T21:25:31Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > The elbow looks okay to me, but the left forearm and wrist look awfully skinny. > > But then, why would they photoshop someone’s wrist? There’s probably not one photo that’s commercially used that isn’t “Photoshopped.” This includes sharpening and adjusting color, contrast and texture, or changing the background. Or fixing “someone’s wrist.” This has nothing to do with dishonesty or trickery, but the esthetics of the entire photo.