Emma Watson's missing leg spotted in video

British Actress and Harry Potter star Emma Watson is burning up the Internet, and that's due to her new Buberry advertisements which feature her as the face of their campaign and a controversy about her legs, or one of them.

The 19-year-old star has created the ads (her second go-round with Burberry in two straight years) with her brother, 17-year old Alex, and for the British label’s Spring/Summer 2010 campaign.

There's just one problem: it looks like Emma Watson's missing a leg in one of the iconic photos created by legendary photog Mario Testino for Burberry.

The photo above of her with Alex looks as if Emma Watson's right leg is half there.  The way her leg is placed visually implies that it should continue such that it can be seen between Alex legs.  But what's there is the same color as the wall.

This has caused massive web buzz with speculation that Emma Watson's leg was photoshopped out of view.   The Huffington Post's readers seem to think so, according to their poll.  

But they're wrong.  This video below shows that Emma's leg is actually exactly behind that of her brother's leg.



Thus, from a straight on angle, as the photo was taken from, it appears that Emma Watson has part of her leg and not the whole.

If Emma Watson weren't so skinny, all of her leg would have been visible, even behind that of her equally thin brother, Alex.  

Did Burberry instruct Mario Testino to make the photo that way to deliberately draw attention? Or did Mario Testino comes up with the idea on his own?  In either case, the result is pure Internet marketing genius.

Stay tuned.