Roddick Rejects Photo Re-Touching

More and more celebrities are becoming disenchanted with having their photos re-touched, and a recent image of tennis star Andy Roddick appearing on the cover of Men's Fitness appears to be the last straw for the struggling athlete who dreams of winning another major some day before he dies or Roger Federer retires.

The photo above is actually the one the magazine intended to use but editors decided that the image had undergone a "bit more" of a change than had been anticipated. Roddick is shown in what appear to be excessively developed biceps. Worse yet, the body on which Roddick's head was placed was taken from a photo from the early 1940's with a WWII recruitment poster clearly visible in the background.

"It places into question truth in journalism and suggests that what the media represents may not be, fair and balanced" according to a Fox News representative, who, in an unusual twist, acted as a consultant to the photo editing process for the image which eventually made its way on the cover of Men's Fitness.

The magazine, renowned for creating male stereotypes who are impossible to duplicate, thus adding to the anxiety facing males in an increasingly competitive "meat market" type world, denies altering any of its photos and asserts that what people are seeing in its pages are simply what readers want to see. "All men want to appear fit, regardless of their emotional and mental well being. It doesn't matter if the guy on our cover is a gutless homophobe living in a perpetual state of angst as long as he has a set of six packs to die for," stated Karl Tensile, who is unconnected to the magazine.