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Gwyneth Paltrow's Vogue cover bombs

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Poor Gwynnie. Her Vogue cover issue was their lowest selling issue of the entire year so far. Maybe that's because nobody realized it was a picture of her on the cover -- she was Photoshopped until she looked like a wax statue that just vaguely resembled Gwyneth Paltrow.

Another month that had surprisingly poor sales was the "shape" issue featuring Lebron James and Gisele Bundchen.

Some people are crying racism. We're crying sizism. Doesn't Anna Wintour realize that we are no longer buying into the fact that the media says Gisele is, "curvy."

Please. Don't call it a shape issue and then feature people that are all the same shape -- stick thin.

Maybe that issue didn't have poor sales because Lebron is black, but because it sucked.

We could go on and on about that for a while, but New York Magazine sums up what goes wrong in the shape issue quite nicely saying,"It further unravels with a piece called 'Figuring It Out,' featuring five women grappling with different body types. But rather than include even one who is moderately chubby - or even mildly bloated from last night's pizza binge - they are instead: thin; tall and thin; short and thin; pregnant but still thin; and 'curvy,' which in People-speak would mean Queen Latifah, but in Vogue translates as 'thin with boobs.'"

Funnier still, the very website calling out Vogue's poor sales this year, is a Conde Nast owned website -- surprisingly enough, the company that also owns the magazine.

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