I think Melissa McCarthy looks great on the cover of Elle. What do you think?

[OmahaBlueDog]

Elle Put Melissa McCarthy on Its Cover, and Then Covered Her Up

Slate

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/10/15/melissa_mccarthy_in_elle_the_magazine_put_the_plus_size_comedian_on_its.html

Melissa McCarthy is on the November cover of Elle, and everyone’s excited. It’s a plus-size woman! On the cover of a magazine! But should Elle really get credit for this?

Every November Elle goes cover crazy. For its annual “Women in Hollywood” issue, instead of picking just one woman to grace the cover, the magazine awards a whole bunch of actresses the not-so-singular honor.

This canny tactic provides Elle with a chance to branch out from the familiar shots of skinny women who appear to have been photographed from about two inches away, as Lady Gaga, Shakira, Kerry Washington, Taylor Swift, and Claire Danes have been in recent months.

In a business where covers have a profound effect on newsstand sales, taking a chance on an unexpected subject represents a big gamble. You might think that by splitting the risk six ways, there’d be less riding on one actress’s slender shoulders. But in fact, there’s typically just one newsstand cover; the other choices go out in the mail to subscribers. Last November, full-figured Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer gave great face on an Elle cover, but it was Sarah Jessica Parker’s scrawny bod looking out from the newsstands. (This isn’t necessarily a smart business move—Adele’s 2012 turn on the cover of Vogue was that year’s second-best-selling issue.)

[Aristus]

1. You can't see them very well in this pic, but

I think she has beautiful dimples.

[frazzled]

2. I'd look good, too, air-brushed within an inch of my life

Coiffed by a top stylist and made up by a professional, and swathed in $20,000 worth of luxurious fashions.

Whether plus-size or heroin-thin, no model on the cover of Elle bears a relationship to real women.

But yeah, she looks great!

[dionysus]

5. her hair isn't quite as boufed out as this guy, but it's close;

her normal look is much better;

[quinnox]

3. I don't get the trenchcoat thing

not very flattering.

[OmahaBlueDog]

16. Fall fashion

Coats, high heeled boots -- you get the idea.

[pnwest]

4. Ditto on the dimples, I thinks she's

beautiful. Always have! But this doesn't even remotely look like her. They changed her, airbrushed her, covered her up... Not necessary! She is beautiful!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

6. I think she is adorable, but -

I find it sad they felt it necessary to completely hide her body like that -- they couldn't have found away to make her plus-size body sexy? Shows a complete lack of will and imagination on their part.

[polly7]

7. She looks gorgeous.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/10/melissa-mccarthy-calls-controversial-elle-cover-kind-of-amazing/

I don't get covering her up like that, but she 'loves the cover' and is said to have picked out the coat.

[postulater]

8. No idea who she is.

A Republican Congresswoman?

[thelordofhell]

10. Here ya go.......

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565250/?ref_=nv_sr_2

She's quite the successful actress

[pnwmom]

11. She's a comic actress who has been in a number of high-grossing films,

including Bridesmaids.

[hughee99]

12. Ah, the always popular Vogue "Republican congresswomen of Hollywood" issue. n/t

[pnwmom]

9. Now she looks like everyone else

except with messier hair.

[chowder66]

13. People are making too much out of this

It's a November edition aka Fall/Autumn. And it says right there The Perfect New Coat Shape. She looks sultry. They have had other models/ actresses on their covers with a coat on or clothes that are not skin tight and the image is usually sultry, sexy, attractive without having to have skin or skin tight clothes. I think it's a nice looking cover that did its job…aka interest in the coat.

And as has been pointed out, she picked the coat, she likes it and doesn't get the controversy. Neither do I …at all.
Oh and not everyone hates comfy clothes that are stylish.

[NV Whino]

14. I don't know, but

whoever put the red type over the grey coat should be shot.

[RussBLib]

15. looks like Roseanne Barr - n/t

[Logical]

17. She is funny as hell and a great performer, but does not look great to me. Weird outfit. I will....

take this photo:

[Chan790]

18. Not a fan of the hairstyle.

It just looks big and helmety.

[MerryBlooms]

19. Wicked smaht, quick wit, sexy and beautiful- what's not to love?

And, I really like the photo.