her fuller figure and curves, the magazine's photos of its September cover girl have apparently been heavily airbrushed to make her appear magically slim again."We all obsess over looking like the perfect Barbie type, and that's not always what's beautiful," the pop star says. "It's about making peace with yourself."
Is it? Then why does the magazine cover and, to a much greater extent, the inside photo spread feature the star looking exactly like the perfect Barbie type? Could it be a case of "Do as I say, not as (Lucky and) I do"?
The Conde Nast magazine didn't respond to a request for comment from PopEater. But its seemingly photoshopped pictures have created a mini-uproar in the blogosphere.
Some Lucky-bashers point to the singer's disproportionate head and body in the shots. Others remind us of pictures snapped only a few weeks ago showing a still-rounder-looking Jessica, who has noticeably gained weight -- and taken heat for it -- in recent months.
"While I appreciate the comments [Jessica Simpson] makes about loving and accepting her body, I would find them more believable if she did not allow the magazine to airbrush her until her body looks nothing like the 'real' Jessica," writes one Lucky reader. "These are the ways we could actually induce change rather than just giving it lip service. The body in these pictures is NOT the body we see in candid shots. I doubt it could hold up the head on top of it in real life. Come on Jessica!! Take a REAL stand!"
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The blurb with the photos says she has undergone a change in her own style and fine-tuned her ideas about what is beautiful "by coming to terms with some serious body issues over the course of the last year."
"She stopped fighting her hourglass silhouette," writes Lucky.
And the star echoes those sentiments in interviews she's dosince she's returned from shooting, telling Us Weekly that stressing out about weight "is just a woman thing -- unless you're the women we don't like that are supermodels that are just naturally fantastic."
"I'm a curvy girl," Simpson said. "I have to always be conscious of everything I'm putting into my body."