Comedian Tina Fey Models For Vogue

"I don't look at models who are crazy skinny and think I want to look like that, because a lot of them are gigantic, with giant hands and feet."

Tina Fey's impersonation of former presidential candidate Sarah Palin seems an easier work than doing photo shoot for Vogue. Still, her awesomeness is impossible to impinge on.

The star of 30 Rock lands the magazine gig with clear intention — talking about her fashion style evolution and not on being a "cow."

So what is fashion for Tina Fey?

"People will say, 'Oh, fashion magazines are so bad, they're giving girls a negative message' — but we're also the fattest country in the world, so it's not like we're all looking at fashion magazines and not eating. Maybe it just starts a shame cycle: I'm never going to look like that model, so… Chicken McNuggets it is!

"And conversely, I don't look at models who are crazy skinny and think I want to look like that, because a lot of them are gigantic, with giant hands and feet. Also, my dad is an artist — a painter by hobby — and I constantly would see realistic nudes. Because we were raised around art and went to museums and the women I grew up around were curvy... There wasn't this value on skinny, skinny, skinny. Curvy was clearly meant to be the winner. I go up and down a few pounds with a relative amount of kindness to myself. And I have a daughter, and I don't want her to waste her time on all of that."

Indeed, Tina Fey is not a fashion model but a comedic actor. And so she succumbs to the awkwardness of photo shoots.

"At one point I was posing for (Mario Testino), and he was talking from behind the camera and he was like, 'You have to fliiiirt, darleeeng. You have to bee-leeve you are wuuuurthy to be on the cover.' And then at one point he said very quietly, 'Lift your chin, darling. You are not eighteen.' I was like, 'You probably say that to all the 23-year-olds.'"

Not everyone is happy with her Vogue cover though. Some hate the idea of the seemingly contented and relieved-in-her-average-look Tina Fey submitting herself to the power of Anna Wintour.

"These women are hilarious, smart, talented AND feminists — need I remind them... Why do they feel they have to cave in to the pressures of the beauty industry despite their massive talent and star capital that got them where they are today?" says one critic who, upon seeing Tina Fey on the glossy magazine cover, declares the international sad day for women.