Kate Middleton official portrait -- YIKES!

rml_16
rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
I don't normally follow things like this, but a news station I follow posted it on Facebook and I was kind of horrified. I wonder who approved this as the "official" portrait and if that person was blind.

It looks like someone took a photo of this beautiful woman and ran it through one of those programs that ages the photo:

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  • BondBomb
    BondBomb Posts: 1,781 Member
    She looks 60. I guess they aren't expecting her to age well.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    She looks 60. I guess they aren't expecting her to age well.
    I actually think if she were actually 60, she would look pretty good. But she's not 60 and she doesn't look anything like that now! It's awful, awful, awful.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    She looks 60. I guess they aren't expecting her to age well.

    If she looks like that at 60, congratulations to her!
  • ShawndaSallee
    ShawndaSallee Posts: 103 Member
    I was reading about this just a few mins ago. The family said they wanted the real her. Not the "official her" thats seen in the media all the time. Not saying this is it, but they were going for a more untouched, unedited.
  • limesublime
    limesublime Posts: 118 Member
    Such a beautiful woman, but she looks sedated! I gotta feel a bit bad for Kate - she has to be polite about the results
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I was reading about this just a few mins ago. The family said they wanted the real her. Not the "official her" thats seen in the media all the time. Not saying this is it, but they were going for a more untouched, unedited.
    Was she edited and touched up in the live broadcast of the wedding? She didn't look 60 there.

    She just looks so old in this portrait.
  • ShawndaSallee
    ShawndaSallee Posts: 103 Member
    I was reading about this just a few mins ago. The family said they wanted the real her. Not the "official her" thats seen in the media all the time. Not saying this is it, but they were going for a more untouched, unedited.
    Was she edited and touched up in the live broadcast of the wedding? She didn't look 60 there.

    She just looks so old in this portrait.

    She was definitely poked, and pinched, strapped, and slathered in makeup..
  • cuterbee
    cuterbee Posts: 545
    Eeek! What a terrible photograph!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I was reading about this just a few mins ago. The family said they wanted the real her. Not the "official her" thats seen in the media all the time. Not saying this is it, but they were going for a more untouched, unedited.
    Was she edited and touched up in the live broadcast of the wedding? She didn't look 60 there.

    She just looks so old in this portrait.

    She was definitely poked, and pinched, strapped, and slathered in makeup..
    Yes, but it's not like she isn't wearing makeup or her hair isn't done or eyebrows waxed, etc., in that photo (or is it a painting?).
  • ruurik
    ruurik Posts: 143 Member
    David Icke claimed the royals were lizards from outer space (Google it for a laugh). This picture is proof LOL
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    David Icke claimed the royals were lizards from outer space (Google it for a laugh). This picture is proof LOL
    But she's a commoner! (Or she was, anyway.)

    lol
  • ruurik
    ruurik Posts: 143 Member
    David Icke claimed the royals were lizards from outer space (Google it for a laugh). This picture is proof LOL
    But she's a commoner! (Or she was, anyway.)

    lol

    Ok then... part lizard from another generation/dimension? lol (I'm trying to think what Icke would say about this lol)

    In all seriousness, as much as I dislike the royals, I do think she's a good looking gal. Dare I say it, they've royally screwed up this portrait.
  • _DaniD_
    _DaniD_ Posts: 2,186 Member
    Are you sure this isn't an advertisement on the side effects of Meth?
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Are you sure this isn't an advertisement on the side effects of Meth?
    That would make absolute sense.
  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    That cannot be real.
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    Are you sure this isn't an advertisement on the side effects of Meth?
    ^This.

    I didn't realize "natural" meant adding premature wrinkles to someone's face.
  • SlickFootAnna
    SlickFootAnna Posts: 611 Member
    Yikes...
  • DrMAvDPhD
    DrMAvDPhD Posts: 2,097 Member
    Even famous people get bad driver's license pictures. Seems fair. Have you seen celebrity mug shots? Always awful. BTW It probably looks like *kitten* to us because all the pictures in the magazines are photoshopped.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Well she is a few years older than William. But I do think that this photo was age-progressed.
  • pants77
    pants77 Posts: 185 Member
    She'll grow into it.
  • Bobby__Clerici
    Bobby__Clerici Posts: 741 Member
    They had to release an ugly photo to offset all the topless ones floating around.
    The royal family is absurd.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    She looks devoid of life. The eyes have no sparkle or light to them.

    And also, the pursed lips do not help. It looks forced/unnatural/posed.

    I don't usually follow them either but this just does not do her justice. Poor girl.
  • _Elemenopee_
    _Elemenopee_ Posts: 2,665 Member
    HOLY CRAP!

    This is the guy who painted it too!

    ap_kate_middleton_dm_130111_wblog.jpg
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    HOLY CRAP!

    This is the guy who painted it too!

    ap_kate_middleton_dm_130111_wblog.jpg

    Oh... it's a painting... that explains a lot!
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Even famous people get bad driver's license pictures. Seems fair. Have you seen celebrity mug shots? Always awful. BTW It probably looks like *kitten* to us because all the pictures in the magazines are photoshopped.
    This is an oficial portrait that probably cost quite a lot of money and will be around forever. It's not a mug shot or driver's license.
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  • BondBomb
    BondBomb Posts: 1,781 Member
    She'll grow into it.
    Yeah in 20 years it will look just like her.
  • PottsvilleCurse1925
    PottsvilleCurse1925 Posts: 354 Member
    Kate Middleton - I'd hit it. But I wouldn't hit THAT!
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
    oh poor Kate! this is TERRIBLE! the only thing i can think of that would POSSIBLY explain this is if her sittings were when she was first so sick w/ her morning sickness and they weren't telling anyone she was pregnant. she looks ill in the painting. and she can't SAY anything. poor Kate!!!
  • 1shauna1
    1shauna1 Posts: 993 Member
    They should fire that painter! She looks so old.