Bloody hell, have you SEEN Helena Christensen on the cover of Elle?

[squeaver]

legs not retouched apparently

She is 41.

[sigh]

Models are a different species from us mere mortals. I think that I roughly come up to her knees.

She really is astonishingly beautiful.

Like looking in the mirror

41 not that old is it? She has very good genes. I'm sure there was a spot of retouching though.

oh its all retouched

Not retouched according to my friend on twitter Lorraine Candy, the editor

I thought you meant Helena Bonham-Carter...

Re-touched without a doubt. Demi Moore denied being re-touched on the cover of a mag last month, saying it was "100% me". Turns out they super-imposed her head onto a catwalk models body

She is stunning have seen her sa few times irl she is my ultimate girl crush.

When you have the height and the bone structure to begin with it is easier to stay looking good. Have you seen Yasmin Le Bon lately she doesn't look any different then she did 20 odd years ago.

shhhh riven - don't tell anyone

Cheer yourselves up and look at this

Gah! Its Coleen Nolan coming out of the launderette

She's gorgeous.

There are over 6 billion people on this planet - it figures that one of them is going to have amazing legs.

They ahve done a WInslett on her, for sure.

I saw it in the newsagents earlier . Probably re-touched, but she still struck lucky in the gene pool didn't she?

I do not believe that Elle would put a non-digitally enhanced photograph on it's cover.

Having said that, I saw Helena Christensen once and had to really concentrate on not staring open-mouthed at her, she is stunning.

In comparison, I saw Christy Turlington, and she was always my favourite of the '90s models, and although beautiful, hers is a more attainable look, elegant and polished.

Helena is exotic and utterly glamorous.

She's at least 5.11 she doesn't need her legs stretched. although they've probably smoothed out the various slight blotches or whatever make her human..

She looks lovely. And 41 is not so old that it is astonishing she still looks good.

Let's face it, even if it was retouched, she didn't have legs like Beth Ditto to start with, did she? She's stunningly beautiful and clearly not made from the same DNA as the rest of us.

i'm sure that 'not retouched' from the ed really means 'not altered beyond all recognition'. i think your friend lorraine has lost perspective.

yes supermodels ARE made of different DNA, aren;t they? It's like comparing throughbred race horses with Thelwell shetland ponies

Also I have to say the "Coleen Nolan coming out of the laundrette" photo of her still looks a lot better than me, and I am 11 years younger than her.