Although it amuses me to watch Shape fall over itself backpedaling, the picture kind of baffles me too. She's only 28 and she lost the weight over four years, plenty of time for her skin to retract. However, I remember from my days reading the magazine that its "success stories" generally involved women who had less than 100 pounds to lose. Oh--I also remember an older woman who lost a significant amount of weight doing it the low-fat way, but switched to low carb, lost even more weight ... and Shape wouldn't do a follow-up story on her (this was the early 2000s).