New York Magazine proclaimed: “We Are Not Surprised Vogue Photoshopped Sienna Miller’s Head onto a Different Body.”

I’m appalled. And if I were Sienna Miller, I’d feel a bit humiliated.

How low will we go to protect this ideal of beauty that is so unattainable that the most beautiful among us are unworthy.

In a behind-the-scenes documentary, “The September Issue,” which debuted at Sundance recently.

Infamous Vogue editor Anna Wintour calls Miller “toothy” and others lamented her “unruly hair.”

She was airbrushed to look like a porcelain statue in the photo shoot with renowned photographer Mario Testino for the September 2007 cover shot. In the end, they took one photo of her face and super-imposed it on a separate picture of her body.

Apparently all the other head-body shots were unsatisfactory. It can be so tricky coordinating the two.

NY Mag’s blog writes: “We’re not shocked at all …

Magazines do this all the time, especially with actresses who are not models and don’t come out looking as close to perfect on camera. Photo retouchers always – on models and actresses – remove arm hairs, smooth knee caps and arm-pit wrinkles, get rid of blemishes, veins, and under-eye shadows, and take shine off the face. Each photo is different but other common adjustments include slimming of hips, removing lower-belly shadows, slimming noses, and changing eye color. What you see in magazines isn’t real at all!”

Above the British actress is shown at an event in November. Does she look disfigured to you. OK, the head position and the hair make her look like she’s lost her neck somewhere, but I assure you that it is there and it’s lovely. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

The NY Mag blog concludes: “If readers are never able to attain physical ideals in these magazines, they’ll keep buying them for more diet and beauty tips, right?”

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The story was first reported at The Huffington Post which also reported, “The magazine released a statement praising Miller’s beauty, saying, ‘While some retouching is a fact for any cover, no one is more convinced of Ms. Miller’s beauty than Vogue. The fact she’s appeared on the magazine’s September cover, our most important issue of the year, is a testimony to this truth.”