The Shocking Video Proof: Before and After Photos Are Fake

I had not seen this Melanie, but what I had heard about was professional fitness type people being paid to gain weight for a before photo and then paid to loose it not using the product being endorsed but whatever personal training technique they normally use and then taking the after photo.

Before and after photos all done in one day! Darn it. I mean I do fall for this kind of scam all the time. I never knew this kind of trick actually exist. Now, I'm worried. How are we suppose which products really work?

Thats hardly the case. Those techniques are just the "finishing touch".

When someone drops 5" from their waist or loses 30 lbs of fat it's a bit difficult to duplicate that with tanning, shaving and lighting.

However adding the "finishing touches" w/ tan, lighting, shaving, etc. will add to a more dramatic "after" photo if the transformation was profound.

I saw that show! I agree. I always assumed the pics were altered but was shocked they would do a before and after the same day. Also the part where the guy makes supplements out of rice flour in his kitchen. So wrong...

I always figured they were fake to some extent, but I had no idea that they were shot in the same day. I kind of thought that they sometimes shot the "after" shot first and then paid the people to gain weight and then take a "before" shot. Self-tanner makes a big difference; I worked with a guy that was a body builder and before a show, he would use a ton of bronzer to look more "cut". Combine that with airbrushed-on abs and you could easily take 20 lbs off someone.

It's sad to say, but people can be such lemmings. I didn't think anybody actually believed those adds or infomercials.

This is shocking. But I suspect that no matter how many times we are reminded of the fakeness that surrounds -- we always forget.

Yeah I love that movie. Shows you the true "nature" of how things work in this world.

I love how he after this photo shoot goes on taping his photos onto his custom made food supplement. Selling it for lots of cash =)

Entertaining video. lol But what their doing is really bad karma.

So many of those before/after shots (especially the cheapo ones) don't even look photoshopped - they just had the person slump with no makeup and no lighting, sticking their belly out in the first pic and then had them stand up straight and suck it in with good lighting in the after.

I'll have to check out this movie, it looks interesting!

If you've never watched "Bigger Stronger Faster" and your into pysical fitness on some level I would watch it. It's available to watch instantly on Netflix. Very informative. The bottom line is you can't take a supplement and expect to look like a fitness model. Don't get me wrong supplements are good but only after you've done the appropriate research and met with your doctor. Even then most are not worth your hard earned money.Get off the couch and do something!

Like everyone is saying, I always assumed these pictures were fake, but not to this extent! I just assumed that the people had actually lost the weight, but then they went in to photoshop a more 'cut' look. As someone who has lost 65 pounds slowly over three years with lots of exercise, I always marveled at how the 'after' shots show people with such taut, stretch-mark free skin, especially when so many of them have supposedly lost 100+ pounds! My max weight was 225 (5'9", woman), and despite twice-weekly Pilates classes my stomach still looks like I gave birth to octuplets!

photoshops for liars!

That is crazy! I am glad someone is telling the truth, so people understand that the best way is the hard work and consistency, not pills.

Well, I guess some of them are fake, but it's really hard to tell on the actual commercials. This is really interesting.