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[By the way, the photo is just illustrative...but don't they look sweet? Mrs P.]

It starts today!

An interesting article in Women's Health magazine:

Why This Photo Promoting the Paralympics Is So Controversial

Talk about a fail.

By Korin Miller August 26, 2016

 

 

 

 

Promoting the Paralympics? Good! Photoshopping able-bodied models to look like Paralympians? Bad—so, so bad. 

That’s a valuable lesson Vogue Brazil just learned.

The magazine is under fire for a controversial campaign in which disabilities were Photoshopped onto models in an attempt to plug the upcoming Paralympic Games, reports Mashable. 

The campaign, dubbed “We Are All Special Olympics” is a collaboration with Paralympic ambassadors Cleo Pires and Paulo Vilhena, both actors. In the photo, Cleo’s arm was Photoshopped out and Paulo was given a prosthetic leg.

The photo is meant to resemble the real-life disabilities of two Paralympic athletes—Brazilian table tennis player Bruninha Alexandre, who had her right arm amputated when she was just 3 months old, and volleyball player Renato Leite, who has a prosthetic leg, according to Mashable.

 Many questioned why the magazine didn't just just photograph Bruninha and Renato—after all, Instagram photos show that they were at the shoot. 

Naturally, people are pissed—though Vogue Brazil claims they were just trying to raise the profile of the Games. 

“For those who do not know, the idea of the campaign came from the Paralympic ambassador, Cleo Pires,” said Vogue Brazil’s art director Clayton Carneiro in a statement on the magazine’s website. “We knew it would be a punch in the stomach, but we were there for a good cause, after all, almost no one bought tickets to see the Paralympic Games.”

Err…OK? You can check out real Paralympians in action starting September 7.

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