- Lauren, 53, and Jeff, 59, did a glamorous shoot for Vogue’s December 2023 issue
- But social media users were not here for the images and roasted them online
- Some said they looked like ‘AI’ in it, while others thought it was a ‘parody’
The internet is roasting Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos for their new Vogue photoshoot, with some branding it was ‘cringe’ and ‘uncomfortable’ and others accusing the magazine of photoshopping the Amazon founder’s muscles in it.
Lauren, 53, and Jeff, 59, sat down for a joint interview with the publication for its upcoming December 2023 issue, which was accompanied by a very-glamorous photoshoot.
But when the magazine shared one of the snaps from the shoot to its Instagram page on Monday, many people in the web made jokes about it in the comment section, comparing the couple to ‘background actors in a telenovela’ and stating that it looked like a ‘parody generated by AI.’
The image showed Jeff sitting in the front seat of a truck while Lauren leaned over from the passenger side and draped her arms around her fiancé.
She donned a white tank top while he opted for a black T-shirt, jeans, and a cowboy hat. They pressed their faces together and starred seriously at the camera.
‘I’ve never been more uncomfortable with a photo,’ one person wrote. Another added, ‘I would like to un-see this picture.’
‘This is several degrees of f**king weird. And definitely not Vogue – in any description. And I’m being very kind here,’ someone else said.
‘I honestly thought this photograph was a parody generated by AI,’ read a fourth comment. ‘Or ironically photoshopped. This is a real post… for Vogue?
‘No one wants this content,’ a fifth said.
A different user asked, ‘Why do they look like they’re background actors in a telenovela?’
‘This is the number most cringe post I have ever seen. Unfollowing,’ scathed one commenter.
Someone else wondered if Jeff had paid the publication to make his muscles look bigger in the photo, while another person agreed, ‘The bicep is airbrushed to hell.’
Others were quick to slam the outlet for ‘glorifying billionaires’ and called the interview ‘tone deaf’ amid ‘everything going on in the world.’
‘Not very fashionable to idolize people who are destroying the planet and have destroyed lively-hoods across the country,’ read another comment.
‘This is a remarkably unflattering and tone deaf post and the timing is uncanny. Do better Vogue,’ someone else said.
‘WTF is this? With everything going on in the world, this is who you choose to promote? I’m so confused,’ wrote a different angered user.
‘Much has been made of Jeff Bezos’s evolution from online bookseller to Tony Stark titan of industry and the third richest man in the world,’ read the caption of Vogue’s post.
‘Once insular and press-shy, he formed a cocoon around Amazon and his personal life.
‘Now it’s as if he’s emerged from his chrysalis, no longer Amazon CEO (a role he ceded in 2021) but an empty nester who is venturing not only into the Adriatic but into outer space.
‘His fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, by all accounts is the perfect partner for it all – unbridled in her enthusiasm but also socially adept, attentive, a diplomat of a kind.’
While it’s unclear when they first got together, Lauren and Jeff’s romance was first exposed by the National Enquirer in January 2019, while they were both married to other people.
Soon after, the business mogul divorced his wife-of-over-25-years and the mother of his four children, Mackenzie Scott, while Lauren left her husband, co-CEO of Hollywood powerhouse agency WME, Patrick Whitesell.
The businessman – who is the third richest man in the world and has a reported net worth of $165 billion – and the TV personality then made their first public appearance together in May of that year, and have been happily in love ever since.
They got engaged back in May, and Jeff popped the question on his mega-yacht after they enjoyed a romantic dinner under the stars together.
During the interview, the couple opened up about the moment he asked her to marry him.
Lauren told the publication that Jeff had concealed the huge diamond ring under her pillow, and that she almost ‘blacked out’ when she discovered it at the end of the evening just before they went to bed.
When asked about their wedding, Lauren admitted that they were still in the early stages of planning, so they didn’t have a lot figured out just yet.
‘We’re still thinking about the wedding and what it’s going to be. Is it going to be big? Is it going to be overseas? We don’t know yet,’ she dished.
And Jeff made it clear that he was leaving it in her hands, telling the outlet when asked if he was going to be heavily involved in the planning, ‘Oh, God, no. Do I look that dumb?’
As for whether or not Lauren will be taking her husband-to-be’s last name, she admitted: ‘Uh, yes, one hundred percent. I am looking forward to being Mrs. Bezos.’
The couple celebrated their engagement on Sunday with a star-studded bash at Diane von Furstenberg and her businessman husband Barry Diller’s sprawling home in Beverly Hills.
It was attended by a slew of celebrities like Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Robert Pattinson, Suki Waterhouse, Oprah, Miranda Kerr, Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba, Cash Warren, Chris Rock, Gayle King, Deborra-Lee Furness, Rita Wilson, Barbra Streisand, and James Brolin.
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