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The Ladies The New York Times Wants You to Lose Weight
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:29 PM
Gothamist points out the New York Times fashion writer Cathy Horyn said the following about Mad Men's Christina Hendricks at the Golden Globes: "As one stylist said, 'You don’t put a big girl in a big dress.'" (It's important to note that Horyn was quoting a stylist, and that Horyn herself actually calls Hendricks "pretty.") Gothamist suggests that the more egregious error comes in the way that the Times manipulated a photograph of Hendricks, which is on the left below, next to the actual photo:
She's not big, she's vertically challenged! After getting some complaints, the Times updated the original post with the following:
Update | 2:57 p.m. A number of readers raised concerns that the photo of Christina Hendricks at the Golden Globe Awards had been deliberately altered. The photo was slightly distorted inadvertently due to an error during routine processing. The photograph has been replaced.
If we take them at their word, it was just an extremely unfortunate juxtaposition of bad blog hoodoo, photography, and words. I would have absolutely no idea how to manipulate a photograph like that using Slog technology, but the New York Times has a whole army of interns that could potentially fuck up photo uploading. The whole story will never be clear, but we should all take a moment to pause and remember the important issue that this whole kerfluffle has raised: Christina Hendricks is a stone-cold fox.
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Could we get some input from Charles Mudede on this issue? Not the photo distortion, but the matter of the stone-cold fox.
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It's called "Fit to Frame". That's when the image you place into a preset frame is not the same size and the image is stretched along the X or Y axis. It's a very easy error to make, although completely amateurish. Not what you would expect from the NYT.
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@4: Yeah, that's what kind of occurred to me too (although not so precisely). I wouldn't expect it from the NYT either, but I wouldn't put it past a large paper making this kind of error once in a while -- either a brainless intern or a sleep-deprived editor.
I thought Hendricks looked great -- old-style glam. How is it a "big" dress? It's just ruffled on one side.
I thought Hendricks looked great -- old-style glam. How is it a "big" dress? It's just ruffled on one side.
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Yeah what everybody else already said. I've been a practicing homosexual for nearly 20 years and I'd hit that in a big fat second.
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This whole kerfuffle makes me so sad. The dress may have been a bit ridiculous, but she still looked amazing in it. And her rack is just...incredible. In a very very good way. (this coming from a straight female).
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She is super hot - I'd love to look like her, and if I was into girls I'd love to sleep with her! But as a fellow curvy redhead (although, of course, not as wonderfully curvy as Christina) I have to say that the girl does not know how to dress for her complexion and figure. Of course, it doesn't really matter when you're that smoking hot.
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Stunning and simply beautiful. At times I wish I had that type of body, delicious and curvy. *Sigh*
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Saffron! It probably speaks to my particular brand of nerdiness that I didn't know Yo-Saff-Bridg was on Mad Men. Her lipstick color choice is a problem, but her body looks awesome.
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The NYT has a pretty uppity ombudsman program (they call it a "Public Editor") which hasn't been afraid to shake up the house a bit concerning matters of this kind before. Was the the photo's distortion a mistake or otherwise? I'll think I'll send a request for further information to:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/th…
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/th…
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Your post/headline implies that she was made thinner intentionally, when the error seems to have been stretching the photo horizontally (having the reverse effect). Which I think was almost certainly an error making a photo fit a space. Why would they intentionally make her look shorter/wider? She looks like people look on televisions in bars, when they often show programming on widescreen TVs stretched out to fit the screen whether it's widescreen programming or not.
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I have had a major lech for her ever since Firefly, and the 60s costumes on Mad Men are perfect for her. I think she's one of the most gorgeous creatures walking the earth.
"Big girl." Kiss my ass. Just because her boobs are real and she's not a human skeleton, they call her a "big girl." What a crock of shit.
"Big girl." Kiss my ass. Just because her boobs are real and she's not a human skeleton, they call her a "big girl." What a crock of shit.
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I don't think the NYT was calling her fat. The stylist said she was a "big girl", which I take to mean large-breasted. It was a criticism of her dress, not her body.
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@25 is correct. it's only in comparison to most actresses (who are way way thinner than you think - no, even more so - no, try again).
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"I would have absolutely no idea how to manipulate a photograph like that using Slog technology"
Mudede manages to do it all the time...
Mudede manages to do it all the time...
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As hot as she is, I would hope the NYT would put their efforts behind fact checking actual news items.
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I'm gay as a picinc basket and I think she's smoking hot...big, beautiful, REAL chi-chis are a wonderous thing!
also, the whole, she looks like a normal, healthy, (albeit mega-meloned) woman instead of an emaciated toothpick like most actresses...
also, the whole, she looks like a normal, healthy, (albeit mega-meloned) woman instead of an emaciated toothpick like most actresses...
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Like #26 says, NYT said big, not fat. She IS a big girl (and not just her breasts), as opposed to petite.
Mudede would call her 'a house of bricks'. Sexy red bricks.
Mudede would call her 'a house of bricks'. Sexy red bricks.
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"Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts."
I want to play the part of Christina Hendricks' vibrator!
I want to play the part of Christina Hendricks' vibrator!
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hendricks is HOT! and she does not look like a "normal" girl. SHE LOOKS SUPER HOT!!! normal girls don't have what she has, that's why she's on TV and your not.
and neither am i btw.
and neither am i btw.
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@26 and 31 I think may be too generous. A new york fashion editor calling someone a big girl is like a nun calling someone a slut. Other people might think that there's nothing wrong with the characteristics described and genuinely mean it as a compliment, but methinks there's reason to guess that the person in question does not.
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normal in the sense she has a normal/healthy percentage of body fat in ratio to the rest of her body...
and, Project Runway winner Crisitian Siriano designed her awful dress...
and, Project Runway winner Crisitian Siriano designed her awful dress...
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As a fan of breasts and redheads, I have been banging my head against my desk thinking about this woman since Firefly. Even though her hair isn't actually red. I will overlook the dye job, but only for her.
Now to resume banging head against desk.
Now to resume banging head against desk.
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@4: I agree. Fit to frame or not, the operation still required an editor, no? with eyes? and a brain? did s/he not really check the work? if you're running an pic of a Hollywood-type, does it not seem THAT much more important to run a FLATTERING image? Boo on the Times.
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As with any large website there's a lot of automation at the NYT. Not at all surprising that something like this could happen.
Probably won't assuage the conspiracy theorists like Edward, though.
Probably won't assuage the conspiracy theorists like Edward, though.
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So wait a minute. Are the boobs real? These days that question is obligatory. Or is this already common knowledge? I don't keep up with TV.
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@ onion they're all hers:
http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac294…
fake ones don't jiggle like that
http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac294…
fake ones don't jiggle like that
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They forgot "deadline pressure" and "I don't write the headlines" -- the other classic newspaper excuses.
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She has a stunt double that was on "My Antonio" last summer:
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/image…
http://www.in.com/videos/watchvideo-my-a…
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/image…
http://www.in.com/videos/watchvideo-my-a…
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Why are PEOPLE SO MEAN!!!!!!!!!! I was reading a "how I lost 10 pounds in a week" article in Us Weekly that my 16 year old sister also read because she really wanted to shed some weight for her up coming gymnastics team event. It wasn't a diet, it was a guide for anorexics. It was a guide on how to eat 700 CALORIES A DAY. That's a Karen Carpenter diet. Girls like the hot as fuck, healthy as fuck, and skinny as fuck Christina Hendricks are not fat. I'm fat. I know. Don't fuck with skinny girls with big tits cause you hate us fatties. That's just MEAN
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My guess is that they took a frame of video footage and forgot to revert to square pixels.
Now back to the burlesque bump and grind soundtrack in my head.
Now back to the burlesque bump and grind soundtrack in my head.
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I doubt her hair is naturally that shade of red, but I'd bet money she's naturally reddish at the least. You just don't get that shade of skin with any other coloring. I should know, I have the same skin. It's about the only thing I have in common with her, appearance-wise. If I could wake up tomorrow looking exactly like someone, that'd be my pick.
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@51: She's openly said that she's been dyeing her hair red since she was, like, 10. I think she said she's actually blonde, but no word on if it's reddish blonde.
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@51 & 52, me too with the blonde-gone-red, and I have the same skin tone. It's the red hair color that brings out the flush/blush that makes it so dramatic. While the skin tone is possible in combo w/other hair colors, it's at its best with red. :)
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@38 and 51
According to Wikipedia, she's been dying her hair red since she was ten years old. In my book, and I love, love, redheads, that counts.
According to Wikipedia, she's been dying her hair red since she was ten years old. In my book, and I love, love, redheads, that counts.
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