Hollywood film makers now using 'digital surgery' to stretch female stars

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Cinematic equivalent of Photoshop used to digitally extend the women
Comes after Britney Spears appeared in video looking taller and thinner
'Digital surgery' also used to replace wrinkles on stars who have Botox

By Laura Cox for the Daily Mail

Published: 08:12 EST, 9 February 2014 | Updated: 19:46 EST, 9 February 2014

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First it was the airbrushed models, doctored to appear impossibly thin.

Now Hollywood moguls have been criticised for stretching actresses to make them longer and leaner.

Last night, body image campaigners said it was another example of young girls being encouraged to seek perfection that doesn’t exist.

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Hollywood film makers are apparently using a post production technique to stretch actresses, making them taller and slimmer. The new enhancement fad has been revealed after singer Britney Spears appeared in a documentary about her Las Vegas show, looking remarkably taller and slimmer

‘Digital surgery’ as it has been labelled, is already used to add lines on the faces of stars who have had Botox, with Martin Scorsese complaining that the injections leave them unable to show emotion.

It is thought Wolf of Wall Street star Margot Robbie may be among those doctored, after fans noticed the 5ft 6in actress looked unusually leggy in the film. Miss Robbie recently criticised the Hollywood pressure for women to be ‘gorgeous and thin’.

The practice first came to light in a Britney Spears documentary, when the 5ft 4in singer gained three inches to meet the ‘showgirl minimum’ for her Las Vegas concerts. She also appeared thinner in the documentary than in a promotional clip for it.

How Kim Kardashian may look if she was subject to the digital surgery. Post production sources at a studio which uses the technique, compared it to a 'fun house mirror'

How Mariah Carey might appear of she was digitally stretched to make her appear taller. The technique is being branded 'digital surgery' and is also being employed to replace lines and wrinkles on the faces of stars who have had Botox

Pippa Smith, of pressure group Safermedia, said: ‘These films are role models to young girls and as such should have a responsibility towards society rather than cynical commercialism – in fact I can see no reason why it is necessary to change women’s natural beauty in such ways. It’s hideous and wrong.’

Mrs Smith said it could lead to women going for painful surgery to make their legs longer. ‘I actually knew a young Chinese woman, highly educated, who had her legs lengthened – a very extreme thing to do,’ she said.

Kate Hardcastle from the Positive Image campaign accused film producers of promoting unhealthy ideas about beauty.

Film producer Gavin Polone said it was typical of female film executives to have actresses digitally altered but he had never heard of a male executive doing so. He told the Sunday Times: ‘On many occasions I’ve heard female producers ask to have an actress digitally stretched.

‘I am not going to say which actresses are stretched – and it’s always about women, which is unfair – but it is very common.’