http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/was-gabourey-sidibes-skin-lightened-for-the-cover-of-elle-2391180/
Without reading this article, one thought popped in my mind after reading its title: We're still talking about Precious again? While the film received praise from loads of critics yet there were others such as myself who, like I did with Avatar, thought that it was just okay/average. After her mother was voted off 'America's Got Talent' this summer, here's Gabourey Sidibe as the target of a new controversy. I don't know why people are making a big deal out of it seeing that there were a lot of lights shining down on her face when this photo was taken. I know that most magazine companies will go through editing photographs of celebrities and models to sell the latest issue of any magazine in stores now. A young boy's nose can be reduced to being, to the head honcho, too big for his face, for example. A woman's breasts can be increased to add some "ba-dunk" (I know "ba-dunk" sometimes refer to the buttocks) to attract the man's eye. Compared to those, the skin lighting is nothing. Then again, it's up for you to decide after you click the link. What do you think? Was Sidibe duped into having her picture taken only to have her real identity hidden because some people are still afraid of African-Americans? What's wrong with a BBW, big, black and beautiful woman being on the cover of Elle magazine?
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