I_was_a_fakir

Dear Mrs Christian,

I appologize if this post makes you uncomfortable, and feel free to ignore it if it does.

Celebrity actresses, particularly female actresses in action science fiction. Are often "faked". Faking is the use of photoshop or similar software to take a real picture of the celebrity, typically a glamor shot or high resolution screen-capture, and place that image of the head or face of the celebrity into a new context. Typically the intended result is to produce an image that places face of the actress edited onto the body of a porn star.

The resulting fake picture, if done by a master, is something of a work of art requiring real skill, and many dozens of hours of time. (Faking is also legal as long as it targets public figures over the age of 18.) Most Fakirs sign their work... that is they do not produce the fake image to fool people into believing that it is a real image of the celebrity, but rather see it as an artform which is intended to pay homage to the faked celebrity. Fake images of celebrities are posted for admiration and comment on various web forums including in some of the NSFW subreddits.

So, now that I've explained what I'm talking about, I can finally ask my questions:

• As one such celebrity who has often been the subject of faking, how do you and other celebrities feel about this practice? Are actresses generally unaware of the faking community? Do you personally despise faking of yourself and other actresses? Do you see fakirs as cretins and potential stalkers? Conversely, do you consider fakirs fans like any other fans? Are you flattered by the attention of fakirs? To your knowledge, are your attitudes on this topic representative of the attitudes of other female celebrities? Do male celebrities (who are the subject of faking MUCH less often) have the same or different attitudes on the subject?

I'm not saying that she approves or disapproves of faking, or of nudes that are not fake... either of herself or of others. I'm not even saying that she SHOULD approve or disapprove of it.

I'm just aware of no celebrity who has actually been ASKED one way or the other. So I'm doing so.