• Adweek, Friday, October 18, 2013 3:02 PM

In the latest complaint in the perennial why-don't-fashion-magazines-show-women-as-they-really-are file, Elle magazine has been garnering pushback for featuring the adorable, but definitely plus-sized, actress Melissa McCarthy on its November cover -- draped in a coat that obscures her whole body.

Meanwhile, as Emma Bazilian points out, "Elle isn’t this month’s only magazine cover controversy. November’s Vogue features a heavily airbrushed version of Kate Winslet—or as Fashionista puts it, 'someone or something that vaguely resembles a human being … who vaguely resembles Kate Winslet.'”

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