Victoria Pendleton

She can be respected and admired both for her beauty and her athleticism. To somehow imply that she's 'lowering' herself by doing an FHM photoshoot is quite patronizing and maybe a little insulting!

Dashing, isn't he?

She can be respected and admired both for her beauty and her athleticism. To somehow imply that she's 'lowering' herself by doing an FHM photoshoot is quite patronizing and maybe a little insulting!

Isn't patronising insulting enough?

She can be respected and admired both for her beauty and her athleticism. To somehow imply that she's 'lowering' herself by doing an FHM photoshoot is quite patronizing and maybe a little insulting!

True dat.

Who can blame her for using one of her many gifts to raise her profile?

But if she is agreeing to have her thighs photoshopped to be more slender and feminine, which she clearly has. Then is she not embracing the physique which has made her who she is and that is well, fraudulent really

Damn right. Im taking my copy back to the newsagents and demanding a refund.

So you'll only date a woman who refuses to wear makeup. Cos that's fraudulent too, right?

Thats why I stopped dating transvestites....

Do the people who model in these things explicitly agree to photoshopping? Will FHM have shown Vic the photoshopped pictures to get her approval?

As I've been led to understand it from past photoshoots, the model frequently has little involvement with the end product.

Anyway, even if she's agreed to it, is it necessarily fraudulent? It's not like the photoshoot is some realistic appraisal of what it is that 'makes her great'. It's a glossy shoot meant to make her pretty.

If she did her hair or wore makeup, would this be fraudulent? Pretty hair doesn't help her win races.

I agree that she looks more attractive 'as she really is', but I don't think anyone considers FHM shoots to be an attempt to glorify the real...

can we all stop bickering like a bunch of tarts and just look at the photos please? She can do whatever she likes as far as I'm concerned. FHM is undoubtedly an anagram of BALLS, but who cares? she has nothing to prove to any of us sloths.

kiera knightly. i heard that she had to have someone on set on "pout watch" to stop her from pouting too much. didn't do their job very well....hah

So Joe Wright claimed in the junkets to one of the Keira-fests he directed. Probably a bit of back-pedalling cos someone said 'jeez she pouts too much' in the edit. I'm sure she's lovely. Just too pouty.

Sheesh, when did everyone turn in to pajamas?

It's like 'glossy girls on bikes' all over again :p

yeah and that thread's a fucking joke. My gf looked at the post list once on the forum, that happened to be near thr top, and just said 'hmmm a bit of a sausage party then this forum?' Its fucking sad.

I have to say, it’s nice to see a woman gracing the cover of a men’s magazine who’s famous for something other than winning a reality TV show/getting her tits out/dating a footballer etc.

The spectacle demands more meat. Maybe when we rate the meat as a person, we are sucked into the spectacle a little more?

wow the snipe line across the bottom of that gq cover is a list of people i love to hate

Careful, most of them post on this forum...

Personally I dont give a flying fuck what she does. I just think this whole photoshopping thing is a load of wank. The whole fake tits, fake tan, lip plumping, bottom sucking thing is taking over our society. Its for these stupid little bints who have no talent to speak of and are desperate for some exposure. Just dissapointed to see a truly great sporting talent go down the same road thats all.

ok, yeah, fair enough.

i agree there but the p-shopped pictures probably sell more copies. what can you do.

err, not buy it?

OK, I won't.

She's a bit bland, but I'd still do her, (s)natch.

Hooray, the internet is over.

she seems to have lost an awful lot of muscle since here....

Ugly picture she looks like a man

Ugly picture she looks like a man

An athletic skinny man with moobs and childbearing hips?

I don't really care, but I'd like to point out there are better ways to prove it's possible to be sporty and beautiful without stripping off and having photos of your body photoshopped so they can appear in one of the world's most moronic publications for a target audience of 12 year old boys and some slightly older retards who like to talk about sex on the internet because they haven't got any other outlet. I bet over 99% of FHM's readership have no fucking idea who Victoria Pendleton is. Laaaaaame.

Cars, tits, celebrity, football, and scandal, the life-affirming 5-a-day for the (very) average male in this country. Any combination of these is a headliner.

@tricity: Word.

slightly older retards who like to talk about sex on the internet because they haven't got any other outlet.

:(

I'd like to talk about her outlet.