If ya'll fat tub o'lards out there were sooooo pleased with your looks you wouldn't have to resort to name calling. Picking on thin little girls. Not everyone is a size 0? Yeah well not everyone is a size 16 either! You're all just a bunch of miserable bullies and as we all know misery loves company. Get over it and pick on somebody your own size! Maybe a sumo wrestler!

I know we have an obesity problem here in the US, but the photoshopped picture is just absurd. Just how skinny do these fashion designers think women should be?

Jez...she looked pretty appealing before the pic was p/shopped. After...not so great...

what is wrong with people? The model has a gorgeous figure in the first pic. The after - she looks disgusting!

I can see the differences in the photos, however, I don't think photoshopped pictures matter that much. I have never paid attention to the model in the clothes but the actual clothes they are trying to sell. It took me actually looking for the differences to see them. The first thing I noticed that was photoshopped was the lack of wrinkles in one photo to the other. The second thing I noticed was the greater detail in the neckline of the second photo. Seriously people its all about your perception! If you concentrate (read obsess) over how others look then that's all you will see. I saw a woman in a tank top with a really stupid ruffle, jeans and a cool bracelet.

Sadly, someone over there is being paid good money to do terrible photoshop retouching.

I cast a jaundiced eye upon Ann Taylor's claims, since this isn't the first time they've been caught altering model's bodies so drastically. It is one thing to do minor retouching to remove a wayward bra strap or unflattering shadow - quite another to change the dimensions of a person's physique to the point of creating what appears to be an alien masquerading as a human. The before pic reveals an enviable figure. The after, well, to call it unrealistic, is kind.

Come on Midge! What's your problem? Your comment actually supports the article... and you think it didn't!? That was the whole point. Some of us are stick people (I assume you) and some of us are full-figured and every size in-between. As a former full-figure gal and now a normal size 12, I just think photoshopping pictures to make women look much smaller than they are is wrong. The model looks great in the "before" picture. She is already slim and looks very fit. The "after" picture makes her head larger than her waistline! Don't hate just because you don't have curves... I don't hate just because I do! I'm not a tub o'lard... and besides... everyone knows that real men like nice smooth curves.

The funny thing is: the unretouched picture on the left looks way better than the one on the right. What were they thinking???

Wow, I'm am so appalled at midge's reply. I don't understand why the "mean" mentallity proliferates on the internet. No one is complaining about petite, size zero girls. My daughter in law is a size zero. My daugter is a size 8. They are both beautiful! The problem arises when an already svelt model gets photoshopped to look like a carricature of Olive Oil! The point is, the picture was perfect to begin with until the layout artist got carried away by disfiguring the model. It's sad that you have to be so hateful over a poorly doctored photo.

I have suffered with an eating disorder for most of my life, and while I don't blame the media, this sort of manipulation by the fashion industry certainly doesn't help. What messages are they trying to send here? It pains me to think of the young impressionable girls who could receive the message that beauty equals being impossibly (literally) thin. An apology is a start, now how about some changes in how women are portrayed in fashion!

Crazy...Looking at the re-touched pic made me want to go eat a big mac....All the trouble women go thru to look good yet we love our men as God made em....Do men actually prefer the bones or is it our own insecurities? I have gotten more compliments with extra lbs., less wrinkles, firmer look, curves...Come on, guys, which do you really prefer?

The model looks fabulous in the first pic. Why would anyone choose to modify that? The 'after' pic looks very fake.

I think the real photo looks better - more in proportion. They need to stop using these concentration-camp-look models and show REAL people to give a more accurate idea of what the clothing will look like.

I believe the expression "jump your bones" helps explains our point of view.

If we had meant to say "jump your lard," we would have said "jump your lard."

Does that clear it up for you?