Sharon Stone (Photo : Harper's Bazaar)
Because many women approaching their 60s have loose skin, resulting in sagging breasts and flat buttocks, Sharon Stone's black-and-white nude photos for the September issue of Harper's Bazaar is being criticized as the result of the use of Photoshop.
Rather than impressing readers for still looking young at 57, the star of "Basic Instinct" is accused of "perpetuating unrealistic beauty standards," while the publication is suspected of retouching Sharon's images using the popular software. It didn't help that in the accompanying article, the actress admits, "I'm aware that my ass looks like a bag of flapjacks," quotes CNN.
Sharon points out that she is not "the best-looking broad in the world," and acknowledges being sexy is not equated with the elevation of a woman's breasts but "being present and having fun and liking yourself enough to like the person that's with you." She acknowledges that if being sexy was looking like how she was when she did "Basic Instinct," "then we'd all be having a hard day today."
Like her famous "Basic Instinct" scene when she didn't wear underwear beneath her short skirt, Sharon wore nothing for the photo shoot, except some Tiffany & Co. jewelry, notes Huffington Post.
A reader reacted to the nude images, pointing out, "The problem is that women see these Photoshopped and airbrushed images of women and think that they can attain it with plastic surgery, lasers, and injections that only make them look worse. Time for advertisers and photo magazines to show real women images, and not fake, lying Photoshop fakes."
But in defense of Stone, Occidental University sociology professor Lisa Wade says even if the images were retouched, it's unfair to single out Stone as 'the woman to save us from Photoshopping.'" Wade acknowledges it is reasonable to criticize the actress for "capitulating to patriarchy," but praises Stone for being straightforward how she claimed her career back.
"If she was Photoshopped she's taking advantage of the same tools everyone takes advantage of in the industry," Wade adds.
