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Famous National Geographic Girl Found....



<< those guys know photography. >>



Yes, they do. It is just amazing flipping threw those pages and just looking at those pictures.
 


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<< those guys know photography. >>



Yes, they do. It is just amazing flipping threw those pages and just looking at those pictures. >>





<nods>

2 of my professors at OU use to work at the geographic, and the head of our viscom department was the former Editor there. It was fascinating hearing his stories.
 


<< She was believed to be about 13 at the time, said Geographic spokeswoman Ellen Siskind, which would make her 29 or 30 now. >>

She has NOT aged well, at all!!!
 


<< Yea, getting married at 13 and having 4 kids will really age a person... >>



She got married at 15 prolly, youngest age allowed according to the Islam.
 
Boooooooo! Is that pic really real? I don't trust any stuff I see from CNN. Well, let me rephrase, I believe National Geographic claims to have found her, but the pic looks so fake . . . like a man. 😱

If it's authentic, I think they wore her some make-up to look that way. It's horrible. She looks scary, like a man. 😱 The nose and the eyebrows don't look familiar at all.

Now, don't get me wrong: I luv National Geographic. I luv to see that huge book featuring the lady's pic, but I think this update is a very bad one. I don't trust it. 🙁

I think it was beautiful in its original form and with its original intent and innocence, but it is not so with this new pic. There is no more innocence in the nature of the pic. 🙂

P.S.: Green eyes are very beautiful. I luv them. 🙂

"National Geo should pay her royalties!"

I second that. 🙂
 
Why would they lie? its not like this is a big thing, it went unknoticed, and i didnt see it anywhere until now, why even bother to fake a story this small.
 
that girl does not look 13 in that pic. i'd guess 17-18.. but maybe being bombed out of your home makes you look older.
 
Boooooooo! Is that pic really real? I don't trust any stuff I see from CNN. Well, let me rephrase, I believe National Geographic claims to have found her, but the pic looks so fake . . . like a man.

If it's authentic, I think they wore her some make-up to look that way. It's horrible. She looks scary, like a man. The nose and the eyebrows don't look familiar at all.

Um, living in ABJECT poverty, living through a guerrila war that rips apart your country for a dozen years does not an attractive woman make; despite what movies would have us believe.


Now, don't get me wrong: I luv National Geographic. I luv to see that huge book featuring the lady's pic, but I think this update is a very bad one. I don't trust it.

How is it bad? Because her story didn't have a happy Hollywood ending? (Not to say she isn't happy; she might very well be) This woman has probably seen horrors I, for one, can not even begin to imagine. Is it any wonder that her looks have no survived the hardship? Before the advent of modern technology, people looked older MUCH younger.

I think it was beautiful in its original form and with its original intent and innocence, but it is not so with this new pic. There is no more innocence in the nature of the pic.

That's the whole point, though. Yes, millions of people were captivated by her when the original came out, but she hasn't weathered nearly as well as it, has she? Besides, even when the picture was first taken she was in a refugee camp, so I sort of doubt she was "innocent", despite appearances. Her outer shell has just had time to catch up to the things she has seen in her life.
 
It is really her. In this article, it says they used iris-recognition and FBI facial identification techniques to verify they had the right person..
 
How is it bad? Because her story didn't have a happy Hollywood ending? (Not to say she isn't happy; she might very well be) This woman has probably seen horrors I, for one, can not even begin to imagine. Is it any wonder that her looks have no survived the hardship? Before the advent of modern technology, people looked older MUCH younger.


yup hardship, hygene, nutrition... all suck there😛 not hard to beleive she looks like that now.
 


<< Yea, getting married at 13 and having 4 kids will really age a person... >>


Not to mention wars and the strife they bring
 
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