# The most shameless airbrushing of all time
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-shameless-airbrushing-of-all-time/92615
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 10, 2001, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-shameless-airbrushing-of-all-time/92615 "2001-11-10T10:32:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@vandal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vandal)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-shameless-airbrushing-of-all-time/92615/21 "2001-11-11T23:29:57Z")
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> Rumor has it that Gwyneth Paltrow’s butt was airbrushed for the poster for “Shallow Hal”.
Not only her ass, but her breasts. Come on, we’ve all seen Shakespeare in Love. Who are they trying to kid?
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### Author:  [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2001, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-shameless-airbrushing-of-all-time/92615/22 "2001-11-12T00:43:56Z")
I think they did a great job of airbrushing Jerri Manthey in the Playboy pictures a few months ago. They took this woman who was slender to begin with and made her look even smaller than when she was voted off Survivor. And that was after being malnourished for several weeks.
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### Author:  [@Niobium\_Knight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Niobium_Knight)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2001, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-shameless-airbrushing-of-all-time/92615/23 "2001-11-12T01:21:06Z")
cant say i’ve ever found Sigourney Weaver attractive at all.
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### Author:  [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-shameless-airbrushing-of-all-time/92615/24 "2001-11-12T02:17:35Z")
Green Bean wrote:
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> > \*Originally posted by flodnak \*
> > **Rumor has it that Gwyneth Paltrow’s butt was airbrushed for the poster for “Shallow Hal”.**
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> She is also wearing falsies.
You should see the “falsies” she wears at the end of the movie, when her character’s natural, 300-pound shape is revealed in all its glory. (She used a “body double” for the shots where Rosemary appears in her “full-figured” form from behind, but when you see Full-Figured Rosemary face-on, it’s just Paltrow stuffed into a “fat woman suit.”)
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### Author:  [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-shameless-airbrushing-of-all-time/92615/25 "2001-11-18T07:33:24Z")
I think it is hilarious how Weaver and Hewett are so airbrushed, they look like a drawing.
and then there’s Hackman over on the left looking like a normal person.
who said surealism is dead? 😉
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### Author:  [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-shameless-airbrushing-of-all-time/92615/26 "2001-11-18T08:00:16Z")
I used to work as a photo retoucher, I don’t understand why a retouching job would cost $15,000 (even from a super-expensive studio!). Man - that was some bill!
And, another tidbit of information - (like you asked). A lot of photo retouching is not done with an airbrush. I worked as a retoucher for several years, and never used one. They’d get a person to retouch the negative (lighten areas around the eyes, mouth, etc., where the wrinkles were) then print the photo. Then I’d come in with my special Photo dyes and regular watercolor brush (itty bitty) and blend the face tones back in the areas that the neg retoucher had worked on. I really enjoyed it. And we retouched a lot of high school kids - you’d be surprised how many flaws and wrinkles even high school kids have! There are all sorts of little specks and weird things in a photo that a photo retoucher gets out. We accept certain flaws in a person in real life, but we seem to not be able to accept them in a photograph! (Especially a “glamour” photograph.)
But, I think in Sigourney’s case, her photo was Photoshopped. I can’t imagine them bothering with a “regular” retouch artist to do such work. More and more things are digital these days. It’s so much more efficient.
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-shameless-airbrushing-of-all-time/92615/27 "2001-11-18T15:00:02Z")
I’m so disappointed. I thought this was going to be a thread about the sort of airbrush art you can buy at the county fair. I was hard-pressed to figure out how you could have a “worst” thread that didn’t run to five or more pages within 20 minutes, but I figured I’d see what was being talked about…
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