(Animation courtesy of Jezebel)

Shakesville has a great series going called “Impossibly Beautiful,” highlighting the photoshopping that goes in to making women fit into an unrealistic ideal of beauty.

I especially like numbers three (shrinking Kelly Clarkson’s lower half), four (airbrushing fake boobs onto Keira Knightly), thirteen (bobblehead Rachel Bilson), Vanessa Williams (no wrinkles at 45?), and of course, eighteen (Jennifer Hudson’s ridiculously impossible waist).

Check out PhotoshopDisasters for a lot more bad photoshopping. Maybe it will train your eye to catch the crazy photoshopping that goes on in the ads you see every day.

UPDATE: On a related note, check out this article about teenage girls’ feeling pressure to live up to sexual ideals (The Guardian).