An Australian model has slammed Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s recent Vogue photo shoot.
Simone Holtznagel expressed her disgust at the shoot, reposting a photo Vogue’s account had shared.
In the image, the Amazon founder is dressed in a black T-shirt, jeans, and a cowboy hat while his fiancée wears a skimpy white top.
They are shown posing in a pickup truck, with Sanchez leaning across Bezos with her arms around his shoulders as they stare at the camera.
Under the reshared image of the couple, Holtznagel added a caption: ‘What the actual f**k is this garbage, respectfully.’
Australian model Simone Holtznagel has slammed Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez ‘s recent Vogue photo shoot
The 30-year-old expressed her disgust at the shoot, reposting a photo Vogue’s account had shared
Simone joins a chorus of critics who have branded the shoot as ‘cringe’ and ‘uncomfortable’, while others have accused 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.
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.’
‘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.
Simone joins a chorus of critics who have branded the shoot as ‘cringe’ and ‘uncomfortable’, while others have accused the magazine of photoshopping the Amazon founder’s muscles in it
‘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.’
During the interview, the couple (seen in 2021) opened up about the moment he asked her to marry him. They said he popped the question back in May after a romantic dinner on his yacht
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.
