Actresses Ashley Benson Shay Mitchell, Lucy Hale and Troian Bellisario in a GQ Magazine photoshoot is HNGN's Throwback Thursday selection for July 30 for their elegant beauty that still reigns supreme to this day!
The attractive photo was taken in June 2014 and is still viral, although some say it was photo-shopped, according to The Huffington Post.
"While I understand that GQ's target demographic is probably, you know, not high school girls, it still makes me sad to see some of the smartest female characters on TV getting reduced to shiny, poreless Barbies," The Gloss' Hayley Hoover said in a statement. "I'm not trying to say that talented, intelligent women can't also want to look sexy in a magazine ... but it's so [s----y] that the magazine version of 'hot' always means 'barely human.' They're all gorgeous. They're all sexy. Why do they have to be slimmed down, slicked up, open-mouthed, and fatless?"
Bellisario backed up this statement at the time with one of her own on Instagram.
"So by now you have seen many a shot from #GQ and many people have said that we were photoshopped... OF COURSE WE WERE! that's a very specific type of photo shoot. And looking very blown out and perfected was obviously what they were looking for. Great, Cool. As long as we acknowledge how it was achieved so we know it's not real...." she said.
"I'm not mad at how these pictures turned out, the girls and I had an absolute blast. More fun than we've had on a photoshoot in a while, and I think you can see that in our eyes and smiles."
Bellisario also noted the common custom that exists in show business.
"But it's the same everywhere. It's the same way on the posters of our show and even in women's magazines. This industry seems to invest more in perfection than in flaw," she said. "But flaw and individuality, to me, are what make a human being interesting, they make our stories worth telling. (Unfortunately the flaws don't usually sell products or magazines) I'm proud of my body and the way it looks because @themarkwildman kicks my butt in aerial. But my hips and thighs are a part of me (even though they magically weren't in some shots!) I get those things from my momma. And I'm happy To shake what my momma gave me."
You might remember Bellisario and her three other sexy compadres from the popular ABC Family TV series "Pretty Little Liars."
The show debuted in 2010 and still airs to this day with the same group of ladies, according to IMDb.com.
