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“She looks so impassive [in] those pictures,” Oxymore wrote. She wasn’t the only one who had a problem with Kristen’s ever-unsmiling expression. “Photographically this girl is so dead behind the eyes, so vacant and surly looking,” agreed honeycombchild.
Don’t expect to see the Twilight actress grinning for the cameras anytime soon, either. In the article, she responds to the criticisms that have been thrown at her over the years over her mean mug, saying that she’s not going to sell out just because a couple of people think she should smile every once in a while: “Now I feel like if I smiled for a paparazzi photo—not that I ever would—that’s exactly what people would be desecrating me for,” she dished. “They’d be like, ‘now you’re going to give it up, now you’re a sellout.’ like, okay. What do you want? What would you like?” Sure, whatever you say.
Some simply wondered how she got the gig in the first place: “I don’t think she’s ‘worthy’ of a September cover but well… I guess Chanel/Karl really pushed her on the editors…?” guessed kokobombon.
[Piece Of Me] would have preferred an entirely different cover subject. “I like the shoot and the styling, but it would have been so much better with someone else. She does not photograph well at all.”
GIVENCHYlover threw a little shade KStew’s way: “I like her, I like Chanel… I’d like some Photoshop on her face, she looks too natural.” Ouch.
Kristen looks fine here, although she could have given us a little intensity in the eyes. It is the September issue, after all, a smize wouldn’t hurt.
Sound off on KStew’s cover in the forums.
