1 woman was Photoshopped 21 times to show beauty standards around the world

Beauty is in the eye of the Photoshopper.

Photo editors from around the world adjusted a photo of journalist Marie Southard Ospina to conform to their own standards of beauty.

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Ospina, who describes herself as a plus-size woman, wrote that she wanted to see how the perception of women's body types differs across cultures

The relationship between weight and beauty is quite obviously one that varies from person to person — so when we begin discussing it in terms of nation to nation, lines get blurred. That being said, I was so fascinated by these women’s work that I became increasingly curious as to how editors would treat a photo of me if asked to edit it, what with my chubby cheeks, double chin, thick shoulders and chest and rounder, fuller face. Read more...

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