Congratulations, Elizabeth Vargas! No, not on your baby or your prime gig on ABC News. We're congratulating you on your entree into the exclusive—okay, fairly common—club of celebrities who've been heavy-handedly airbrushed.

According to the Drudge Report, Vargas appears in the new issue of Marie Claire nursing her baby at the ABC anchor desk in a heavily doctored photo. A source tells Drudge, "Elizabeth was more than happy to sit for the interview but was disturbed that the magazine would set aside basic journalistic standards to photoshop her head onto a fake image. Vargas did joke that her real baby is cuter, that she is proud to breastfeed her newborn but wouldn't do it at the anchor desk and that she wouldn't be caught dead in that ugly gold blouse!"

After the jump a look back at some other manipulated images from the recent past.

Kate Winslet, British GQ, 2003: Winslet complained her legs had been altered to look thinner, stating, "The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly I don't desire to look like that". GQ editor Dylan Jones told BBC, "We do that for everyone, whether they are a size six or a size 12. It hasn't a lot to do with body size. Practically every photo you see in a magazine will have been digitally altered in this way."
Oprah Winfrey, TV Guide, 1989: TV Guide saw fit to stitch the talk-queen's head onto Ann-Margret's considerably slinkier body Frankenstein-style.
Ann Richards, Texas Monthly, 1992: Richards found herself photoshopped twice in that issue, once on the cover and once dancing with her opponent.
Weasels, the New York Post, 2003: A newspaper digitally altered a photo members of the United Nations to imply that weasel/humanoid hybrids (possibly cloned, possibly created with stem cells) were threatening to derail America's progress in Iraq.

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