Faith in Photoshop

Faith Hill was pretty enough to be a Stepford Wife but not pretty enough for the cover of Redbook - a great comparison of the real Faith photo and the retouched version (well, I appreciated it) appeared this week in Jezebel. Make sure to click their link for the numerically annotated version of everything that was changed, but in the meantime, you can be amazed by Jezebel's animated version that shows how the retouch trims Faith down (because she's huuuge!), removes the natural lines on her face and...my favorite part...by removing those natural laugh lines makes her look less happy, less like she's really having fun doing this photo shoot (which she does in the original) than like a serene, tolerant statue.
I'm not going to go through the whole "No wonder women are self-conscious..." refrain because you know all that and it's probably done with men's pics too, but the next time you see yourself in a picture and think "Oh my god, I'm so (insert "fat," "old," "blotchy," or other regrettable feature here)"
first, call yourself a photo editor and
second, try to remember if, when it was taken, you were happy. That counts for something even if you can't see it.