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Emily Ratajkowski Calls Out a French Magazine for Photoshopping Her Lips and Breasts

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Most major players in the fashion and beauty industries have been extremely slow to follow in the footsteps of companies like Aerie and Dove in pledging not to airbrush away their models’ so-called “flaws.” Emily Ratajkowski, however, is here to hurry them up.

On Friday, the model and actress called out Madame Figaro, a French magazine, for photoshopping a picture of her that was used on the cover of this week’s issue. Ratajkowski posted both the original, non-retouched photo and the final cover image to Instagram in a side-by-side comparison showing that her breasts were lifted and lips narrowed for the cover photo. In the accompanying caption, EmRata described her frustration with the magazine—and the industry as a whole—for sending the message that her natural beauty is, apparently, not beautiful enough.

“Everyone is uniquely beautiful in their own ways. We all have insecurities about the things that make us different from a typical ideal of beauty. I, like so many of us, try every day to work past those insecurities,” she wrote. “I was extremely disappointed to see my lips and breasts altered in photoshop on this cover. I hope the fashion industry will finally learn to stop trying to stifle the things that make us unique and instead begin to celebrate individuality.”

This is far from the first time the 26-year-old has spoken out against societal standards of beauty. Most recently, in her cover story for the August 2017 issue of Allure, she criticized the societal instinct to censor women’s bodies. “It really bothers me that people are so offended by breasts,” she said. “That’s when I realized how fucked our culture is. When we see breasts, we don’t think of beauty and femininity. We think of vulgar, oversexualized images.” On the topic of allowing women to embrace their own bodies, she added, “To me, any expression that is empowered and is your own as a woman is feminist. If a woman decides to dress sexy, it doesn’t mean she’s not a feminist. [We] should be doing things for ourselves. If that is the woman’s choice, and it makes her feel good, then that’s great. Good for her.”

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Ashley Graham Calls Out Rihanna's Fenty Runway Show For Not Using Curvy Models

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Ashley Graham has long been the face of size inclusivity on the runway, constantly pushing designers to do better and cast more plus-size (or curvy, as Graham prefers to be called) models in their shows. And though the fall 2017 shows saw a record 27 plus-size model appearances in New York alone—up from 16 the previous season and a mere six the one before—Ashley says there’s still lots of progress to be made.

In an interview with Yahoo! Beauty, Graham, who has her own lingerie brand, the Ashley Graham Collection, does not think that this year’s collections will be as progressive as last season’s. “It’s sad,” she says. “It’s funny to me, because I’ll look at runways and think, ‘I’d look so great in those clothes’ or ‘I know curvy women who would look so great in those clothes.’”

And she even called out a few names in particular. “I was at Fenty, and that was an amazing show. But how dope would it have been to see some curves on the runway? I think Baja East would be really cool to have curves on the runway. Philipp Plein would be really cool.” Though Rihanna has proved that she’s devoted to providing every woman with an option in the beauty industry—stores cannot keep the deepest shades of Fenty Beauty in stock just days after it dropped—Ashley does have a point that true diversity is not just limited to skin tone.

But it’s not all bad. There were the Christian Siriano and Prabal Gurung runway shows, both of which Graham and other plus-size or curvy models walked in, plus the Chromat show, which was one of the most diverse, with plus-size, transgender, and older models. Nevertheless, designers should all strive to include as many different skin tones, body types, hair textures, etc., as possible.

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