COVER FOR BRITISH GQ

Photography : Russell James

Digital Art : Darren Westlund

Not too long ago, Kate Winslet raised a stink in the media about how her figure had been digitally slimmed, against her wishes, for the February 2003 cover of British GQ. She was quoted as saying: "Is that what women think? In order to be adored, they have to be thin?" I could have told Kate that British GQ wasn't discriminating against her; they digitally slim everyone who goes on their cover. Need proof? I was personally responsible for the digital slimming of Heidi Klum for British GQ's January 2002 cover. Heidi is known as "The Body" in the fashion industry because she has one of the most perfect figures imaginable. But that wasn't good enough for those hopeless horndogs at British GQ. I used a pinch filter on Heidi's waist and I slimmed down her thighs in this photo and the alternate version that they used on the cover. The eight million dollar bra I pretty much left alone.