Jennifer Hawkins Foregoes Photoshop

Filed Under: Models Photoshop Awardz

Well this is cool!

The February issue Marie Claire Australia features a nude and completely unretouched model Jennifer Hawkins as the covergirl. The cover is in support of the Butterfly Foundation, which works to help women overcome struggles with eating disorders and body image.

The twenty-six year old model wears only makeup on the cover, which shows her (albeit slight) imperfections. In the magazine, Hawkins says, "I'm not a stick figure. I thought it would be great to tell women to just be themselves and be confident."

The Butterfly Foundation's Julie Parker said,

"What we're talking about here is just one small part of a wider spectrum of body image, self esteem, and eating disorder issues and that small part is actually about digital enhancement and retouching of images. It's so excessie in magazines these days and young girls and women are constantly telling us that they don't even know what they're looking at anymore, and what they want to see is more real, untouched and natural photos of celebrities and people in magazines, and I think this delivers that."

Of course, Jennifer isn't exactly your average white female - even unretouched, the model looks stunning and nearly flawless. To that end, Paker says,

"The thing is, unfortunately it doesn't make the same point [to put a 'real' woman on the cover], because Jennifer sells magazines and she creates awareness. If Marie Claire had chosen to put on their cover an ordinary woman, say myself or a friend of yours, it would not have created the awareness it does."

We agree - it's no secret that the average woman isn't perfect, it's nice to see the women we idolize aren't flawless either.

The au natural issue hits stands on January 6.

What do you think of the natural photo?

[Image courtesy of Marie Claire.]

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 2:00 pm