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 OK! Magazine Recycles 2003 Photo For Britney's Weight Loss Cover -  Media on  The Huffington Post
This week's OK! Magazine cover features a photograph of Britney Spears with the headline, "Britney Lost 15 Lbs in Just 4 Weeks!" and a subhead, "Back to her old body with the miracle food that sheds weight fast." Back to her old body, indeed. The image OK! uses to show Britney's transformation is actually from a 2003 photo shoot for Glamour 's Women of the Year issue . With rave reviews of her ... [link]

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  • modemlooper modemlooper
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    busted! maybe micheal musto can do britney doing britney doing diet ya ya
    Posted 4/3/2008 [reply] [flag]
  • Kimmie Kimmie
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    Now this makes me question the journalistic veracity of tabloid magazines.
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LOSING WEIGHT IS EASY
Published 4/2/2008 at What Would Tyler Durden Do?
The Huffington Post calls out OK! magazine today for their headline story claiming Britney Spears lost 15 pounds in just 4 weeks.  The sub-headline even goes on to scream, "No Pills, No Lipo".  Since we all know Britney doesn’t diet or exercise, that would pretty much leave disease, but that’s not it either.  Her secret?  Easy.  Time travel. ...

Huffington Post Says Shenanigans To OK! Magazine
Published 4/2/2008 by FListed Says: at F-Listed
... will have you believe Britney Spears“Lost 15 Lbs in Just 4 Weeks!” by showing the unstable pop star looking her best when in reality it was an old photo from 2003. Via The Huffington Post : This week’s OK! Magazine cover features a photograph of Britney Spears with the headline, “Britney Lost 15 Lbs in Just 4 Weeks!” and a subhead, “Back to her old body with the miracle food that sheds weight fast.” Back to her old body, indeed. The image OK! uses to show Britney’s transformation is actually from a 2003 photo shoot for Glamour’s Women of the Year issue. And that, dear ...

OK! Magazine Reveals Britney’s Revolutionary Weight-Loss Secret: Time Travel!
Published 4/2/2008 by Alex Blagg at Best Week Ever
Props to the eagle-eyed Britney Spears superfans over at HuffPo for recognizing that the photograph accompanying this week's OK! Magazine cover story on the pop singer's miraculous weight-loss was actually taken five years ago, in those halcyon "hotness" days before Spears let herself go. "OK!", OK!. Was this a case of lazy and dishonest tabloid cover sensationalism, or has Britney actually fried her brain into a jumping-jiggawatt Flux Capacitor that's rendered her capable of bending the entire ...

Late Breaks: What a Difference Five Years Makes
Published 4/2/2008 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... -Britney Spears sure does look good on the cover of OK -- possibly because the photo was taken in 2003, and not after her recent diet, as you're supposed to think. [Huffpo] ...

Talk of the Tabs
Published 4/2/2008 by david at Jossip
... Cover: Britney lost 15 pounds in just four weeks, and OK! acts like she discovered some huge diet secret. She quit overdosing on Taco Bell and Frappuccinos and eats five small meals a day. Who knew cutting out fast food made you lose weight? Also, it helps that the photo evidence is from 2003. ...

OK! Goes with Old Spears Photo After Deciding the New Spears is Still Too Fat
Published 4/2/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... Britney Spears look just fabulous on this week's cover of OK! magazine! It's like she's back to her 22-year-old self you know, before the stints in rehab and the gas station Cheetos binges and the drugs and the shady paparazzi boyfriend and the whole having kids thing. If this suddenly attractive again incarnation of Spears looks too good to be true, well, that's cause it is: the Huffington Post reports that the picture OK! uses is actually from a shoot Spears did for Glamour's ...

Time Magazine
Published 4/2/2008 at WOW Report
Britney's new diet secret is to set the time machine to four years ago. (HuffPo via dlisted; t/y Lindsey)

OK! Magazine ‘borrows’ 2003 Photo For Britney’s Weight Loss Cover
Published 4/3/2008 by Hot Momma at Hot Momma Celebrity Gossip Blog
OK! Magazine claims Britney Spears lost 15 pounds in just 4 weeks. What’s her fabulous diet secret? It’s called Photoshop! The magazine basically cut and paste a picture from a Glamour Magazine shoot she did in 2003. It really is her old body! Just like the cover says, no diet, and no lipo, just go back in time and grab and old photo.  I guess they didn’t think anyone would notice? Source: The Huffington Post Britney Spears ...

OK! Magazine Tries To Fake 2003 Britney Spears Photo
Published 4/3/2008 by Joy A at poponthepop.com
... Maybe they were just trying to go green, but OK! Magazine has recycled a 2003 shot of Britney Spears, claiming she’s lost 15 pounds in 4 weeks. Their first mistake was not downgrading her weave, and I’m guessing her “miracle food” is substituting water for Starbucks’ frappucinnos. That’ll help ya “shed fast.” source This Entry Posted to - ...

OK! Magazine Recycles 2003 Photo For Britney’s Weight Loss Cover
Published 4/3/2008 by steph at Celebrity Mound
... This week’s OK! Magazine cover features a photograph of Britney Spears with the headline, “Britney Lost 15 Lbs in Just 4 Weeks!” and a subhead, “Back to her old body with the miracle food that sheds weight fast.” ...

John Mayer Tries To Scare Himself Straight [Gossip Roundup]
Published 4/3/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
... ' miraculous weight loss, but Brit was too fat or ravaged looking or something, so the magazine just substituted a four-year-old photo instead and implied it was a new shot of Spears "back to her old body." [Huffington Post] ...

HAHAHAHA! Now This Is Funny!
Published 4/3/2008 by ToobMaster at NewsToob
... lost 15 pounds in only 4 weeks — use a photo that is 5 years old!  HAHAHA what a bunch of dumb asses I swear!  The Huffington Post totally served OK! a can of whoop ass and called them out: ...

Good News & Old News From Our Dear Britney
Published 4/3/2008 by TRENT at Pink Is The New Blog
... which also reveals the weight-loss secrets that helped Britney shed 15 pounds in just 4 weeks ... altho, it looks like the magazine thought it would be a great idea to use a 5-year old photo of ...

Britney is back, not really
Published 4/3/2008 by The Blemish at The Blemish
OK! Magazine’s cover story this week is how Britney lost 15 lbs in just 4 weeks and under it: “Back to her old body with the miracle food that sheds weight fast.”! The headline is accompanied by a picture of a svelte Britney Spears who looks like she did in 2003. The thing is, the picture they use of Britney is actually from 2003. It was part of a Glamour’s Women of the Year photo shoot. The Huffington Post says: With rave reviews of her guest spot on “How I Met Your Mother,” Britney does ...

OK! Cover Shot of Britney Spears Is Not New
Published 4/3/2008 by GBG at Hollywood Offender
... Those insightful sleuths over at The Huffington Post don't miss much, especially when it comes to Britney Spears.  In fact, they've uncovered the latest "secret" to Britney's miraculous weight loss, which is the featured cover story on the newest issue of OK! magazine. I call it "time travel" - as in "let's go back 5 years and use an old pic." Visit The Huffington Post for the full story.    ...

OK! Magazine Recycles 2003 Photo For Britney’s Weight Loss Cover
Published 4/3/2008 by admin at Bricks and Stones Gossip
... shoot for Glamour’s Women of the Year issue. With rave reviews of her guest spot on “How I Met Your Mother,” Britney does actually show signs of a comeback and a return to her old star self. But unfortunately, OK!’s cover photo choice paints an unrealistic picture of her comeback, which is a work in progress — and shows that the only way to “Steal Brit’s New Diet Secret,” as the cover screams, is to go back over 4 years in time. Source

The Old Britney is the New Britney
Published 4/3/2008 at Hollywood Rag - Celebrity Ragazine
image Why you can't believe weight lose cover stories Meanwhile, Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline have been secretly meeting in the hope of rekindling their romance. The troubled 'Toxic' singer - whose divorce from Kevin was finalised in July 2007 - is reportedly planning a quiet getaway with the former dancer after the pair spent Easter together. A source said: " They saw each other on Easter. That meeting went so well that Britney and Kevin have agreed to take a trip away from the glare of Hollywood to work on their relationship ." Kevin, 30, ...

Sugar Bits — OK! Recycles a Britney Photo From 2003
Published 4/3/2008 by PopSugar at POPSUGAR -- Insanely addictive.
The cover of OK! Magazine this week features a story on Britney Spears' recent weight loss, but it misleadingly used a photo taken of the star in 2003 by Glamour. — The Huffington Post Jay-Z is close to signing a $150 million deal with Live Nation that will cover his recording and touring for the next 10 years. His contract comes shortly after both U2 and Madonna signed similar agreements with Live Nation. — The New York Times One of Heath Ledger's uncles is putting to rest the rumors that ...

Britney Spears OK! Magazine Weight Loss Cover Bogus
Published 4/3/2008 by Cara at Allie Is Wired - The Entertainment Blog
... First, I hate to say it, but I am about to defend Spears. She is in no way, shape or form fat. Her physique is impressively well maintained for popping out 2 kids. Secondly I must say that I don’t blame OK for digging out the ghost of Britney past. Her bad weave photos burn my retinas. What Others Said: D-Listed-”They should have at least added a few beady-beads to her weave to make it look more current.” [Huffington Post]

OK! Magazine Britney Spears Diet Photo Raises Eyebrows
Published 4/3/2008 by Meg at Bitten and Bound
... The Huffington Post was on the ball and realized that OK! was pulling a little wool over the eyes of readers by featuring a four year old photo of Brit, declaring that she has a secret diet that allowed her to shed 15 pounds in just 4 weeks. The photo that they used was actually part of a 2003 Glamour Magazine ...

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