Britney Lost 15 Pounds in 4 Weeks, and Other Creative Stories Betting on Old Photos

Published: April 4, 2008, 9:23 am

Tags: britney spears, gossip industry, ok, star

OK! took plenty of flack this week for publishing a five-year-old photo of Britney Spears to back up a cover line claiming she lost 15 pounds in four weeks. But let’s not kid ourselves: All the tabloids do it! Let’s see … there’s Star’s cover about “Brit and Kevin’s secret weekend,” which features a photo not from their possibly-never-happened weekend, but from their 2004 honeymoon. And Us Weekly, though it doesn’t claim its cover photo is recent, used a November 2003 photo of a much younger looking Britney, from an Entertainment Weekly photo shoot, as its cover. First we have to deal with covers that are missing a baby’s legs, and now OLD CELEBRITY PHOTOS? Somebody should lose their Photoshop license.

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