Magazines do some crazy shit. Yeah, they airbrush to the max and do all sorts of fancy computer wizardry. Most times, the cover stars end up looking pretty hot, if not always entirely natural. Sometimes they go a bit too far in their alterations, like when they shrunk Kate Winslet’s waist and lengthed her legs for a GQ cover a few years back.

And then sometimes they do stuff to make you think – what’s going on here? Like the latest issue of W, featuring Gwyneth* Paltrow:

My initial response was “Wow…I think??”. But looking at it further, I couldn’t help but be reminded of:

Okay, so Gwyneth’s face isn’t exactly melting. But take her as she’s on the cover of W, mix in a few decades, and you’re heading into Donatella territory. 

* You know the saying, “you learn something new everyday”? Well today, I finally figured out how to spell ‘Gwyneth’. Yay for me!