Sitting for a satellite interview with KTLA, America Ferrera and Blake Lively veered away from discussing their movie together, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 — which neither wanted to film, but, hey, contracts — so the Gossip Girl star could answer some questions about her television show. Ms. Ferrera was not asked about Ugly Betty, and this made her upset. [Mollygood]

Seth Rogen, our favorite deadbeat dad, is hoping to turn his beer belly into a lite beer belly for his upcoming part as the Green Hornet. To lose the weight, Rogen plans on eschewing pot brownies and microbrews for two months. With any luck, plump men everywhere will understand our outrage over America Ferrera’s Glamour cover.

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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

So begins Janet Malcolm’s case study of journalistic betrayal, The Journalist and The Murderer. Fortunately, we are too full of ourselves to notice. Besides most “real” journalists would say that what we do isn’t morally indefensible in that sense anyway.

Malcolm never wrote about art editors, but in the age of photoshop there’s definitely material for an Adobe expose.

Like journalists, their job is complicated by their conflicting desires to sell magazines and be honest. Sure a Q&A will read better with heavy editing and Glamour might sell more covers with a thinner America Ferrera, but that doesn’t mean doing those things is right. And does the public deserve some of the blame for subconsciously wanting an Andy Roddick with bigger arms?

Well, these issues are too weighty for a Friday, but one thing is for sure: if you’re going to do touch ups, there’s no point in lying about which direction you’re going in.

Self art director Petra Kobayashi claims, “We retouch to make the models look bigger, healthier.”

Wow, their touchups are so subtle we barely noticed how fat the model above looks.

The art director of Glamour has us stumped.

We get that thin is in and everything, but why would you thin out America Ferrera? Her whole career, from Real Women Have Curves to Ugly Betty is based on her not being skinny. A major plot of point of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was the size of her ass. If the Men’s Fitness editor was called out for adding muscle to a professional athlete, don’t you think that people would be able to tell that pounds were digitally shaved off of America Ferrera?

It seems impossible, but this cover is not even worthy of a feature about 39 sexy things to do with hair.