Kim Kardashian Photoshopped Magazine Cover
June 8th, 2009 by Rian | Filed under Celebrity Exercise, Celebrity Muscles, Khloe Kardashian, Photoshopped Celebs.
The July/August issue of Muscle & Fitness Magazine is running a cover story about Kim Kardashian and her new fitness & training plan.
According to the article, Kim has been doing workouts with trainer-to-the-stars Gunnar Peterson, who has also worked with Jennifer Lopez, Angelina Jolie and Matthew McConaughey. Kim claims that she wants to “represent a girl who’s working hard to get in shape.”
“I want to represent a girl who’s working hard to get in shape,” she says. “It’s a process. People want the easy way out and the easy fix, but there isn’t one.”
Diet: Kim says that she feels guilty when she cheats on her diet now that she’s trying hard to get fit.
“It’s amazing,” she says. “The more I work out, the guiltier I feel when I cheat, so I cheat less and less. Now I try to eat fish and vegetables for most of my meals.”
(Sounds like she is on a low-fat, low-carb diet!)
But something doesn’t ring true… we heard a couple weeks ago that Kim was spotted buying cookies for the ‘Hollywood Cookie Diet’. And the Muscle & Fitness magazine cover is clearly very heavily retouched! In fact, we just saw some un-retouched photos of Kim from last month (see the Life & Style below):
So what exactly is going on? Did they really Photoshop her to within an inch of her life or has she miraculously put on several pounds of muscle and leaned down? What do you all think?
Source: Jul/Aug 2009 Issue of Muscle & Fitness
Tags: brunette, diet, exercise habits, fit, Kim Kardashian, magazine article, photoshop, toned, trainer
She looks about the same, although her stomach and pores are a bit smoothed out. Either way, she looks fantastic. I’d much rather look like her than one of those depressed-looking anorexic celebrities. Size 2? Probably not. But who knows, she is very petite.
The first magazine took the photoshopping way too far. Doesn’t even look close to her real chubby out of shape body.
IS THAT EVEN A QUESTION?!?!?!
They’ve photoshopped her hips off! I think she looks better but doesn’t matter if it’s fake.
Photoshop!
Ahhhh the wonders of photoshop…
wowwww..thats some bad photoshopping!
did she approve that cover? i hope not,
it looks shitty. i cant focus on the
body, cause the ugly face makes it
hard to look away.
Photoshopping celebrities is nothing new so why shouldn’t they do it to her too. However, I’m getting really sick of this woman lying about her weight.
Are you serious?? There is no way she could have toned up that much in that short of time. Its just not that easy. There is a huge difference between the two pics… the only way I will believe that she actually looks like this, is if I see paparazzi pics of her on the beach…
wow..whose body did they photoshop her face on? lol -_-
Ugh, I can’t stand her. She looks so fake in the first pic. The Life & Style photo is definitely less photoshopped.
This pisses me off beyond belief. It’s bad enough when you see super skinny models on the cover of FitnessRx. Now they’re putting celebrities who aren’t even toned on the cover of Muscle and Fitness Hers?
What a crock of shit!
I don’t know if she’s lost weight or not, but I kind of hope she hasn’t. She looks fine just the way she is – thick.
Does this chick embrace her curves or does she want to be fit and thin??? Either way is fine but she seems to contradict herself in interviews. One minute she loves her curves the next minute she is working out hardcore and eating fish and veggies. She definitely needs a balance. She is on the fast track to yo-yo dieting which is very unhealthy.
Wow, she’s been photoshopped to hell and back on this cover. I suppose any woman can get into shape and look great with a whole photoshopping team behind them.
i think she’s full of shit
Cute face, fat body!
Fake tits, fake hair, saggy ass, and a chubby belly. Why is this slut famous ?
Go on her website, there’s unretouched pictures of her while she was shooting this shoot and she did look like this in those pics! Of course they retouched it but I don’t think too much.
I’ll bet the photoshopped pic of Kim is a size 2~!
Looks photoshopped – and that makes me mad because I USED TO like M&F Hers magazine for promoting a truly healthy lifestyle.
YUCK.SO she gets a trainer. So she diets for this cover shoot. That is NOT something to aspire to.
To those that asked, of course I know it’s photo-shopped, my question was asked in the post to promote discussion.
a little harsh kendra.. she’s one of the few to NOT fall into the bobblehead diet. i think she always looks awesome
WOW. That is definately a photoshopped picture, and if she was trying so hard to be a ‘role model’ for girls, then she wouldn’t be allowing (or being okay) with someone photoshopping her body into something its not. She looks good the way she is naturally. Also, magazines like SELF and SHAPE I find are notorious for photoshopping bods into looking more toned or slimmer.
@Barbie- I think Kim’s point is that she works out, is ‘healthy’ but still has curves and loves it!
Not everyone who is “in shape” will look like Kelly Ripa.
I wish I could Photoshop myself in real life to look like the Muscle & Fitness pic! I run three miles and lift weights most days of the week and don’t look anything like that!!!
OMG she´s so fotoshopped that she looks ugly!
ya.. really… those shoulder blades… that comes from years of pull ups or major hard ass working out… she, on the other hand, strikes me as one who doesnt know what a DELTOID even is..
It almost seems like both covers are retouched?
For that first cover… it’s obviously photoshopped, but that second cover kind of makes her look bigger than she is.
There’s just no way she could get so in shape in such a small amount of time.
“The first magazine took the photoshopping way too far. Doesn’t even look close to her real chubby out of shape body.” totally agree!!!
I wouldn’t want her to be any other way.
A skinny, lean Kim K with no big butt? Boring.
You know I always thought she was annoying until I watched the show. Now I actually have a positive view of her, she seems fun and very well balanced.
Wow, that’s a little extreme, even for what can be expected out of Hollywood… There is no way the body and head are from the same person, heck, what happened to her hips and boobs? Now the boobs MAYBE, MAYBE I could understand if she CRUSHED them in a sports bra, but the total absence of her questionably authentic, large tush is a little too much. Wow. I just don’t know what to say.
I think the pictures look the same maybe 5 pounds lighter which she could have lost in a month! The shorts cut a way that make her stomach look smaller than the bikini but i think she looks the same. Plus, hate to break it to most but the 10 pounds heavier thing is true, she looks way smaller in person!
When did kim have abs? we must remeber that is a fitness mag, and everyone gets touhed up to death. My diet also consist of fish,vegtables, fruit, and oats, but I do sneak in some pizza,hamburgers,chinesse, and choclate cake. I would say that eat healthy 70-80% depending on the season. Cookie Diet is extra stupid! excercise and eat healthy! is that really rocket science. I still love her body!
She’s so contradictory. She doesn’t care if people say she’s fat or has cellulite but all the sudden she wants to lose weight and allows herself to be photoshopped to the extreme after showing an un-photoshopped pic in another mag, wtf?
Wow.. I would have never associated “hardcore training” with “Kim Kardashian”
The “fitness” magazine went way too far with the photoshopping. She is so beautiful and they totally made her face look like someone else.
i am just in awe of how sick this makes me. god, she’s what 30 and trying to pull this off ? say one thing, do another.
I love her body the way it is. Don’t go changing it kim!!
I think it’s just irresponsible for Muscle and Fitness Mag to put KK on the cover. It’s ok to do this type of ’shopping say on Glamour Mag or Cosomo, cuz whatever we’re used to seeing that. But this is a fitness magazine for crying out loud. They should be featuring REAL, FIT bodies. I think it’s great that Kim is adopting a healthier lifestyle, but she clearly does not belong in this magazine.
Yeah, that’s definitely photoshopped, haha. What a hypocrite.. will say and do anything for money or attention.
Although I will always be confused as to why she is famous, I can admit she is really beautiful and has a unique look. Her face is gorgeous and her body is very 1950’s va va voom siren. I guarantee she is fit. Maybe not fit like Kelly Ripa or Madonna, but SHE IS FIT. No doctor would ever tell her she needed to lose weight. No man would ever kick her out of bed. The two most important things! She looks great in both photos, although a bit too photoshopped in the top one.
Doesn’t EVERYONE get photoshopped on these mags? No worse than anyone else. Who cares.
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Wow! Whoever retouched this should get paid big money! They did a great job, except, oh, I don’t know, it’s the fakest cover ever. I mean, it’s good she’s trying to get in shape, but that’s too far!
I think either they used the skinny camera or the outfit made her look thin.
why does everybody think she is attractive. she looks like every other model on a lowrider or hot rod magazine. pretty face, pancake make-up, heavy liner & concealer, chunky thighs & bulbous butt. big deal.
LMFAO
Call me dumbfounded. After reading someones post I went to her website types in “cover” under the search and found the behind the scenes pics. They may have photoshopped her but uh yeahsheactuallis pretty well defined and her waist is that skinny. So weird!!
She actually has slimmed down quite a bit since that Life & Style cover. Recent paparazzi pics of her in bikinis show that she’s really gotten much thinner. and keep in mind, in that first photo she’s wearing black pants as opposed to having a close-up of her thighs like she does on the 2nd cover, which obviously makes her appear slimmer. The first pic has definitely been photoshopped, but it looks like it was mostly around her face. She may npt be a size 2, but she has definitely lost a lot of weight recently, and that first pic isn’t as photoshopped as you might think.
I swear every week this chick has a new size. First she’s thick. Then even thicker. Then a little less thick. Then thick but toned. Then thick but curvy. Then thick but trying to lose weight. Then thick but loving it. Then thin/thick but photoshopped. Then thick but a size two. Then thick and putting out an excersize video. Then thick and eating fish and veggies…………….. MAJOR CONTRADICTION!
at least her photoshopped picture will motivate her to become in real life like this! she has beautiful curves. she just needs to get toned a little bite.
although i think this looks NOTHING like her, i do have to say something about fitness magazine covers…the fitness cover models go on an extreme diet for about 2 weeks before the shoot to help them look much leaner and more defined than they are usually. its definitely not a sustainable diet, but most fitness models do it before shoots. i wouldn’t be surprised if she did it too, so she would look skinnier and more toned.
Her face even looks different- and not in a, ‘I lost weight so my face is thinner’ kind of way…rather a very photo shopped way. She looks better in her untouched cover. Now how many women can say that?
how embarrassing. People will see her in the flesh and know that that is not her real body.
Okay, this is the first time I see Kim with no hips.
Conclusion: well photoshopped!
C’mon… be serious.
Her belly button looks so different in both pics! Definitely photoshopped…
if its a question, why dont we see some side by side pics? its hard to go back and forth. much easier and many more comments with some side by side pics, esp if its like a cover and a recent pap shot.
the face doesnt look much like kim in that first picture nor does the body but she has def lost weight recently cos she’s been looking great in a bikini!
I checked out her “behind the scenes” pics of the M&F shoot too, and her body really does look the same size as in the cover shot… I guess the cut of the clothes was very flattering! And maybe they did retouch her hips/thighs, but with the dark background, it’s hard to tell. I’m indifferent to Kim K, could care less what her or anyone who claims celebrity status actually does, but it’s insane the degree of certainty with which people express their opinions, with absolutely no evidence aside from what they think they know about these people.
i guess she is about the same,exept that in the “retouched” cover she wears black pants and yherefore her lower half is less noticable.
Looks like her head was copied/pasted to a different body. Someone was PS-happy
its because of these ‘miracle’ transformations that make women feel bad about themselves. they see the before and ‘after’ pictures like this and wonder why they can’t do that too. i would like a celeb to just tell it how it is for once and not force false images onto people. it can’t do the celebs self esteem any good either, to know that ‘this’ is what they think they should look like. thank you rian for showing just how extreme the industry is in its quest for ‘perfection’. x
This is shameful! They literally stuck her head on someone elses body! Bullshit!!! Now I hate this pig even more.
i was so disappointed that M&F HERS used her for the cover….or the mag in general! it really makes me question whether or not i will renew my scrip! : (
she’s not fat, she’s curvy and she is fab. love you kim xxx
I agree with the comments above of Carina.
Look at the different shape of the belly button!!
Photoshopped to the death.
She’s a skank no matter how much photoshopping they do to her!!!
I’m sorry but I’m kinda sick of the Kardashian’s in general. Overexposed is an understatement. When your an actress, singer, athlete something like that it kind of makes sense to see someone alot but a sort of braindead reality show. I’m just like go away already, give it a rest.
Good studio lighting make’s a massive difference.
All that ‘Hardcore Training’ is paying off. She looks good. Well done her.
The ‘Cinderella’ of the Kardashian sisters.
Wow the pics do look great, but how much is photoshop and how much is real. Gosh the way she’s going, she probably really is a size 2 now lol.
for goodness sake, what is wrong with these magazine editors, if they want someone who looks like that then get someone who looks like that instead of transforming a perfectly normal body into something that is so obviously not real. and in spite of all her bull about being a size two i think she looks great unphotoshopped. yeah she doesn’t have rock hard abs or teeny tiny thighs but i still think she has a great body
If she tries to eat fish at EVERY meal possible, she’s going to get Mercury poisoning and not to mention, really really bored. She looks good, photoshopped or not.
Way too photoshopped. Even her face looks different. I think she looks great though. I would rather have her body any day over Kelly Ripa or Madonna.
Dr. Truth: “Not everyone who is “in shape” will look like Kelly Ripa”.
Well I certainly hope not because I would die if I looked like Kelly Ripa! I would rather look like Kim K. on the second cover magazine than Kelly Ripa anyday!
And I love Kim and I think she is constantly under pressure for being “curvy” and wants to embrace it but with the constant slamming of her body from the media, I’m sure she is like any other woman and feels horrible about herself and therefore gives in to the pressures to be photoshopped to look like the fitness cover. That fitness cover “person” does not exist in 99% of women. Even most those that we think look that way are photoshopped.
wow, I hope nobody actually believes that she looks like that in real life.
Wow that is insane!! I cannot believe how photoshopped she is!!! Although I’m not surprised. She ALWAYS lies about her weight and size.
I can’t stand this woman.
i dont understand how someone “embraces her curves and admits to have celulite” would let them photo shop her so much to take that away!
hilarious cover
I think she’s just sucking her stomach in..
People will believe what they want even if there are behind the scene photos showing her waist that tiny it doesn’t matter cause you will refuse to go look just so you can continue to be haterz… Just hilarious. Also most covers are photoshopped in some way so why make a big deal. If you want to be angry you should be upset with the magazines.
Why do all these stars get pictures of them photoshopped for the magazines? Thinner or not they do NOT look better after Photoshop, in my opinion.
Her face doesn’t even look real on that cover. Worst cover ever.
So photoshopped its ridiculous! I’m so disappointed in M&F for putting her on the cover! Not that she looks bad or anything like that, its just that she isnt a muscle and fitness type of girl…
Oh I think we all know the new magazine cover is heavily shopped. I wish people would just hush about her body, but I suppose they don’t because she’s not truthful about it.
She is photoshopped, even her face looks different!
Oh my God, so photoshopped. Its ridiculous. Fat and Cellulite? No , thanks.
@ Jenni- good point, good point.
Fitness models definitely have to prep for shoots and I’m sure Kim did as well (probably went very low carb and layed off the water).
Also, I’m sure they did some tan spraying with some added toning to her abs! Very common in the industry!
I do think she’s definitely been way photoshopped, which doesn’t say much for the body confidence she was trying to portray.
Fossee-
Lowrider girls are usually really attractive, so, yeah, she does look like a lowrider girl or even a music video girl, but that’s not a bad thing! Unlike runway models, who are by definition NOT sexy because they’re intended to appeal to women, lowrider models are intended to appeal to men and are usually ESPECIALLY sexy and beautiful. So it’s not really an insult to say she looks like one.
She needs to make up her mind – one minute she’s going on about how she loves her curves and her body just the way it is, the next she’s working hard and starving to get into shape.
i agree that she has no business being on the cover of M&F Hers. Shape and all those other lifestyle-diet things are different, they’re so light and meant to be just entertainig. I hope it wont be 1 more mag that can’t be taken seriously. Ahh the mens mags are really way better, but they just usually have so much body building tips in them, and i’m just a regular exerciser and like to read about new fitnness info and nutrition..
Forget her body. What the he11 did they do to her hair?
She looks absolutely lovely. I’d take her for a moment over Kelly Ripa and VB – they don’t look real. Of course, KK is more beautiful than most people.
she doesn’t look that much thinner to me, except for the hips, but def. a lot more fit & muscular. that takes aaaageeees. even for those who build up muscle quite easily, at least it takes several months. it’s screwed up to photoshop muscle to people. why can’t they stick w/ the ususal supermodel-recipe, at least everyone will know it’s not 4 real. But i don’t think embracing ones curves and wanting to be fit contradict each other. ’cause she has those “natural curves” that don’t mean she’s fat, even though curvy equals fat in a lot of cases. and even if a woman should be on the meatier side, it’s fab if they still wanna eat mostly healthy and keep their endurace and build some muscle. that’s totally possible, all it means they’re eating a bit more than some skinny ladies.
I swear we will agrue about her weight and dress size forever. She has a nice body, end of story! if you want to be too skinny do the olsen twin,kelly ripa, and Victoria beckham air diet.
Her face literally looks “cloudy” from how much they smoothed her out. And what’s with the Elvira hair? Ew. The real girl looks waaaaay better.
surrealistic…
Dr. Truth – agreed – they don’t look healthy or balanced, and probably have all sorts of disordered behaviors. Even if it’s extreme dieting or strict caloric regulation.
VB is a riot though. At least hunger hasn’t robbed her of that.
Thick is in, Kelly Ripa and Vict Beck???? Seriously, is that thick! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Funniest thing I’ve heard all day.
boring boring boring…
donna- that’s the oppostie of what thick is in meant, IMO. she (he?) said if u wanna be skinny go imitate those people, but kim k. is fabulous as she is. as for VB eating healthy- my as*, one can eat right ingridients, it doesn’t mean she’s eating enough. and they totally photoshopped her pics, to make her appear softer. geri halliwell was fit and eating healthy = ortorexic. when taken too far (as it often goes) it becomes just as dangerous as any other ED. kelly ripa also seems anorexic to me (not sure, maybe she’s perfectly ok) but really, excessive exercise and TOO “clean” eating (restricting ur diet to very few products) is an alarming sign of some kind of body issues in many cases
I got this magazine in the mail yesterday and when I saw the cover the first thing that came out of my mouth was “photoshopped much??”
You CAN be thin and not just eat air, I’m So sick of people thinking skinny people are all ill. It’s very annoying.
Maxx–I agree, you CAN be thin and eat more than air, IF you exercise A LOT or are an athlete. Otherwise, if you’re an everyday person that works out a few hours a week, any one who is under their BMI starves themselves OR has a health condition.
I want to be photoshopped!
1) I think the pants & background are a figure flattering combination.
2) Her abs look painted on to me. If she’s been working out, she probably has muscle under her squish (and with hips/boobs/butt like that, there is no way you can say she doesn’t have squish. Its not unhealthy, but its there), but still…they’re way too defined for someone who otherwise looks so soft. I really really think they’re painted/make up.
Maxx05-you can repeat it until you’re blue in the face. It won’t make much of a difference here.
Victoria Beckham healthy & in shape? That’s a laugh. She’s about as healthy, in shape & attractive as Kelly Clarkson-except at the opposite extreme.
it looks like they just got a kim kardashian look-a-like for the other cover. seriously, that is not her.
her face looks photo shopped; isnt that apparent enough? i dont know why everyone is even debating whether or not the body is…if they went to such an extreme with the face who is to say they didnt do the same for her figure..
Ew, what happened to the famewhore/public urinal’s face? She looks even more trannylicious than usual. Oh the older she gets the more like mom she will look, sucks for her. she has absolutely no business being on the cover of a fitness magazine, i would cancel my sub and complain compulsively. how dare they!
WAY TOO MUCH MAKE-UP!
The belly buttons aren’t even the same!
I am so tired of her.
I was really disappointed when I saw she was on the cover of Hers M&F. I get every issue and usually fitness models, not celebs, are on the cover. The workout they featured with Kim was interesting, but would be hard to do in a regular gym.
Looks like a piece of dough. She is a typically fat wog who wannabe famous. She is a fat whore who is dying for attention… no that anyone likes her so just disregard her. She will fade in no time. Reggie is going out with her because she got a fat ass.