Tina Fey's Scar Airbrushed for Vogue Cover
Credit: Mario Testino/Vogue
Tina Fey graces the March cover of Vogue magazine minus one defining characteristic: her facial scar. In Mario Testino's cover photograph, Fey, 39, appears without the small scar on the lower left side of her face.
In a 2008 Vanity Fair interview, Fey's husband Jeff Richmond explained that a stranger slashed Fey's face outside her home when she was five years old. The comedienne has declined to discuss the incident with press. "It's impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it," she told Vanity Fair.
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The 30 Rock star doesn't mention her Photoshopped face in her new Vogue interview. But she does admit that she has a complicated relationship with fashion magazines and the supposed "negative messages" they send to young girls about body image.
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"We're also the fattest country in the world," she says. "So it's not like we're all looking at fashion magazines and not eating."
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Instead, Fey muses that the magazines kick off "a shame cycle: I'm never going to look like that model, so...Chicken McNuggets it is!"
Not that she envies all of those "crazy skinny" models, anyway. "A lot of them are gigantic, with giant hands and giant feet," she explains.
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"I feel like I represent normalcy in some way," she says of her stardom. In show biz, she explains, "People either represent youth, power, or sexuality. And then there's me, carrying normalcy...Me and Rachael Ray."
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35Such bitterness is sad and scary....Ms. Coffee Cake...you are hurting yourself with your hatred...Tina Fey is too busy to read these comments!
One trueism in this world: When you look as that good in a little black dress, you will get a pass on a whole lot! Tina/Hot, Haters/Not.
This "coffee cake" woman is halarious! LMAO ;>
Unlike Celine Dions new cover story, my PRIVATE heartache. UHHHH, its not really private anymore is it. I think Tina Fey just did not want people talking about this huge scar so visible to the eye. If you were in her position, what would you do??? Yeah, so stop talking as if you could not be in the same position onday.
if people "got what they deserved" there'd be none of us left.
Lemme put a smile on that face!
I love Fey--I hope she's as humble, smart, and down to earth as her public persona would have us believe!
are some of you people SO ticked off at Tina Fey for portraying Sarah Palin on SNL that you actually think she deserved to be slashed in the face as a child? sick, sick, sick!
Hey Fey fan, time for you to find someone new to idol. My problem with Fey is that Fey's only vise in life is to bash others without any regard to who she might hurt or offend. One time is comedy being a repeat offender makes you downright evil. And that makes you a fan?? And if you were such a fan you would know this but then again I do not believe that anyone who admires her has an ounce of intelligence. So sorry for you. Tell me where did Fey grow up where someone would just walk up to a child and slash their face? She doesn't want to talk about it to "exploit it" yet this is the yet another mention of it. Sometime in her insecure childhood she crossed the line and got what she deserved however vile. She now makes a career putting down others, probably in retaliation, therefore I do believe that my criticism is not as cruel as a deserving slash in the face so as a fan you need to suck it up. Remember she was the genius behind a movie called Mean Girls. So I guess like Tina you can dish it out but can't take it.
"No Jake, they just decided to feature women with half a brain....thus, Sarah could not be on the cover." Yes, you're correct. She has better things to do than to be on a "fashion" magazine cover. Spreading the word that the "Hope and Change" AIN'T WORKIN!!!
The fattest country in the world is the United States, with 30.6% of Americans being obese. Two thirds of Americans are also considered overweight. This national crisis can even be seen in American pets, with 25% of our pooches and cats being classified as overweight. There are currently 13,000 McDonald's Restaurants and 11,000 Burger King Restaurants. These statistics could give anyone a heart attack. Americans eat larger proportions than they are supposed to and technology has wiped physical activities off of their to-do lists. What can save America from drowning in this vat of fat? The answer is still being searched for.
Rashida Jones would be awesome on the Vogue cover.
SanDiegoChicky Says: Tina should really do her research before she opens her mouth. The USA is not the fattest country. Look it up, we aren't even in the top 5! Yes obesity is an issue, but get your facts straight R-tard. Shows what you know. Please tell us then, which countries are in the top 5. You are delusional if you really think America isn't one of the fattest people per capita. I mean really, 1 in 4 people are overweight. That's staggering. I can't think of any other country besides Canada that has that many fat people.
Tina Fey------equals Yawn!!!!!
You go girl!
Wow, "Tina the Coffee Cake Scarface"! What is your problem with Tiny Fey? What if you or your child was deeply and forever scarred? How would you feel if someone said to you or someone you loved, "You're a smart a## who got what you deserved."? Heartless.
Sooo, let me get this straight, Tina the Coffee Cake Scarface....being a smart a$$ should allow someone to take a knife to your face? If that's the case, then you better duck sweetie!
No Jake, they just decided to feature women with half a brain....thus, Sarah could not be on the cover.
@Actuality You are right! Thanks for clearing that up as I was about to post the same thing. :)
Sorry Tina not buying the "some stranger slashed my face" bit. You really think that people where going around slashing each other back in the stone age when you were a kid? You're a smart a## who got what you deserved. You act as if you don't care about what the general public thinks while you cry yourself to sleep every night. You need to thank Palin and Baldwin for your career after SNL. But remember Palin portrayed you first at Halloween and thoughtfully appeared on a skit for SNL and boosted their ratings that are now tanking.