Kate was once heavily altered in a magazine shoot and thought they went too far: “The retouching is excessive. I don’t desire to look like that…I actually have a Polaroid that the photographer gave me on the day of the shoot…I can tell you they’ve reduced the size of my legs by about a third. For my money it looks pretty good the way it was taken.”
Keira thinks photographers go to extreme measures, changing the photos digitally: “I think women’s bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. It’s much easier to take a picture of somebody without a shape; it simply is. Whereas actually you need tremendous skill to be able get a woman’s shape and make it look like it does in life, which is always beautiful. But our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.”
Shailene Woodley
Shailene believes edited images don’t really represent the real her: “The reality is that I do not have those lips and my skin is not flawless, and I do have a little bit of a stomach. It was not a proper representation of who I am … I just want to be me.”
