Uh-oh, this season (sorry, cycle) of ‘New Zealand’s Next Top Model’ has been plagued with controversy and the hits just keep on coming.
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| Illustration courtesy of Alan Gray The Photoshop edit to Dakota TV3 wishes they did |
This morning in the Herald on Sunday it was revealed that the post makeover publicity shots of Amelia, Lara and Nellie that are used in the weekly end scene montage had been photo shopped. Close ups of the photos expose the jagged edges associated with trying to slim line limbs. Nellie has a slightly kinked arm and Amelia and Lara have had their thighs reduced. There’s also speculation Lara’s legs might have been lengthened.
New Zealand’s Next Top Model producer Anna Lynch said the size of the girls is ‘no secret’ and the photos were only retouched to make the photos look as good as they can. If we all know what the girls look like why do their photos need to be retouched at all? It’s also rather unfortunate that the two girls who have been identified as ‘bigger’, Amelia and Lara, are the targets of this digital manipulation. It’s also rather distressing that they felt that stick thin Nellie needed her arm reduced. She’ll have to eat a few more lard sandwiches before she needs to worry about bingo wings.
What do you think? Is it acceptable to knock a few dress sizes off our models? Or is this sending the wrong message to our young women?
And in other news, the Herald on Sunday’s Spy magazine has a story about Dan Carter’s appearance on next week’s episode of NZNTM. Carter will feature in a nutrition lesson and promote his brand of bottled water. Will the nutrition lesson focus on how models should subsist on water with the occasional frozen pea thrown in (also known as the Posh Spice diet)? The news from Spy is that one of the girls is less than impressed with the All Black heartthrob, going so far as to say she ‘didn’t give a damn who he was, or how sexy he thinks he is’. MEOW.
Oooh who do you think said that?? I’m thinking maybe Danielle or Dakota? What say you?
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