Okay, well the beauty of not being tied to Confidentiality agreements is that I CAN speak out about certain incidents INCLUDING said photoshopping of myself in a magazine late last year. And hey I DID say I was going to cover everything else in my last post but give a girl time – didn’t you see the beautiful sunny day it was yesterday!!!!! OMG! It’s winter in LA so I have to squeeze in as much aussie sun as I can before I go back thank you very much.

Now I have to tread carefully here but at the moment I am dealing with certain people re a number of issues concerning certain subjects so I can’t talk at length about me, my story and what exactly happened – YET! But I will!!!!

However I can give my opinion on photoshopping, for what it’s worth, which is probably very little but everyone else is weighing in on the debate so I might as well too.

Photoshopping. Yes I have been photoshopped! Often and in more mags than just one. Of course I have you dummy’s but the intent in which it has been portrayed is incorrect!

But for now the issue seems to be photoshopping in general. Who hasn’t been photoshopped after a shoot? And reality is if you passed a news stand and saw Hawko butt naked and airbrushed or a woman with stretch marks, cellulite, pimples, hair god knows where and a butt the size of England, would you pass by the Hawko mag, grab the fat slag mag and declare with unbridled delight, “Oh my goodness I so want to buy this mag! How does she look like that??? How many burgers a day does she have to eat to be that REAL?”

Reality is almost every single picture in every single mag is airbrushed in some form. And there is a story to how my photoshopping came about but once again I can’t cover it right now but WILL when it is appropriate for me to do so!!!! But women are their worst enemy because you put a “Real” woman on the cover and it doesn’t sell (ask the editors of Vogue, Marie Claire and Cleo). You put a size reduced airbrushed model on it and it does. No-one is holding a gun to your head making you buy it but you do! YOU buy the mags, they continue to sell what YOU buy! Der!!!!

AND for all those women slagging off the people on the covers for the photoshopping, let me tell you something….when my computer tells me to press ANY button to install something I look for the ANY button. I would not know how to take the red eye out of my own home pics let alone make myself look a certain way for a cover of a magazine.

AND while I am on my high horse, just because Jen Hawkins is naturally beautiful does NOT mean she is not real!!! From what I’ve heard around the traps she is incredibly real, down to earth and humble – something not too many people can boast of in this industry!!! AND because she is REAL and on the cover of a mag, of course they are going to make her look her absolute sexy best and if she has a scratch or a zit or a stretch mark (and let me tell you she probably does god bless her) then they WILL take it out.

Challenging women to a naked body duel only continues this stupid injustice to women. We are meant to feel shamed for our bodies good or bad….you constantly splash “Horror! Stars without make up” or have “Ajay’s weight demons” on unapproved shots of me at the beach with my guy hanging out making me feel BAD about the way I am. If I had have said let me do a photo shoot in my boardies with my gut hanging out but it has to be a positive feel good cover would they have bought it and said “Beautiful on the inside and the outside?” NO of course they wouldn’t.

Stop bashing women for being women, for working, for being models, role models, real or not real whatever that is supposed to mean. If you want to actually change the world then stop buying the airbrushed mags and only buy the real ones….there you go, saved yourself $30 a month already. WE are not the enemy.

But until we all stand together and work together and support and encourage each other the fat fighting and cat fighting will continue and REAL women will continue to buy the mags that make them feel bad about themselves. Go figure.

I am now going to take my stretch marked arse for a very long walk and let my tuck shop arms flap in the breeze with gay abandon and hope to be papped! Confidential – you know you wanna make fun of them, you have for the last four years (yeah my favourite was “certain reality TV hosts really should keep their arms down when announcing the winner!” and “Ajay can’t go to the Logies cause she needs surgery on her tuck shop arms”) but my son loves them and calls them his “little snuggle pillows” and I’ll be buggered if I have to have scars on my arms just because my weight loss and the effects of it somehow disgust you!

See you on the board walk in my board shorts!