19 Stars Who've Faced Photoshopping Controversies

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REBEL WILSON

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02of 19PARIS JACKSONJohn Shearer/GettyIn March 2018, the19-year-old daughter of Michael Jacksonand Debbie Rowe sent out a tweet to fans asking them to stop photoshopping photos of her. But she’s not worried about them removing breakouts or making her look thinner. Rather, she’s concerned that they’re altering her skin to make it either lighter or darker.“I appreciate everything y’all make for me, i enjoy every single edit i see. but please stop lightening my skin to make me look more white,” Jackson wrote to her fans on Twitter. “And please stop darkening my skin to make me look more mixed. i am what i am. i’m aware of what i look like and i finally happy with it..”

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PARIS JACKSON

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In March 2018, the19-year-old daughter of Michael Jacksonand Debbie Rowe sent out a tweet to fans asking them to stop photoshopping photos of her. But she’s not worried about them removing breakouts or making her look thinner. Rather, she’s concerned that they’re altering her skin to make it either lighter or darker.

“I appreciate everything y’all make for me, i enjoy every single edit i see. but please stop lightening my skin to make me look more white,” Jackson wrote to her fans on Twitter. “And please stop darkening my skin to make me look more mixed. i am what i am. i’m aware of what i look like and i finally happy with it..”

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LUPITA NYONG’O

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The Oscar-winningactressspoke up whenGrazia UKedited out her “kinky, coily hair” in favor of a “eurocentric” look for their cover. “Being featured on the cover of a magazine fulfills me as it is an opportunity to show other dark, kinky-haired people, and particularly our children, that they are beautiful just the way they are. I am disappointed that @graziauk invited me to be on their cover and then edited out and smoothed my hair to fit their notion of what beautiful hair looks like,“she wrote on Instagram.

“Had I been consulted, I would have explained that I cannot support or condone the omission of what is my native heritage with the intention that they appreciate that there is still a very long way to go to combat the unconscious prejudice against black women’s complexion, hair style and texture,” Nyong’o continued.

04of 19MANDY MOOREMandy Moore/InstagramTheThis Is Usactressset the record straight when Instagram commenters accused her of editing photos to reduce her waistline. “This is so disheartening. Nope just the angle. Ugh,” she replied to one follower who cried Photoshopon the picsfrom herTonight Showappearance. Eventually, Moore edited the post’s caption to address the rumors. “And ps: I am 5'10 and a size 6. I have NEVER photoshopped pictures. That’s not what I’m about. If you’re going to be rude about people’s bodies, go elsewhere,” she wrote.

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MANDY MOORE

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TheThis Is Usactressset the record straight when Instagram commenters accused her of editing photos to reduce her waistline. “This is so disheartening. Nope just the angle. Ugh,” she replied to one follower who cried Photoshopon the picsfrom herTonight Showappearance. Eventually, Moore edited the post’s caption to address the rumors. “And ps: I am 5'10 and a size 6. I have NEVER photoshopped pictures. That’s not what I’m about. If you’re going to be rude about people’s bodies, go elsewhere,” she wrote.

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EMILY RATAJKOWSKI

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ASHLEY GRAHAM

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07of 19DEMI LOVATODesiree Navarro/WireImage"A lot of times I get frustrated because people will, without my consent, Photoshop my body and it doesn’t look like my own body,” Lovato toldE! Newsabout why she decided to pose for nude, un-retouched photos inVanity Fair. “Like, no no no, my thighs are bigger than that, can you put them back to the way they were? I’ve literally done that before where I’m like, ‘No, put my legs back on me. Those aren’t my legs.’ "

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DEMI LOVATO

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“A lot of times I get frustrated because people will, without my consent, Photoshop my body and it doesn’t look like my own body,” Lovato toldE! Newsabout why she decided to pose for nude, un-retouched photos inVanity Fair. “Like, no no no, my thighs are bigger than that, can you put them back to the way they were? I’ve literally done that before where I’m like, ‘No, put my legs back on me. Those aren’t my legs.’ "

08of 19LORDEEthan Miller/GettyThe singerdid not approvewhen she found photos from a performance had been edited to remove her blemishes. “I find this curious – two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok :-),” she wrote onTwitter, sharing both a retouched and raw pic from the show.

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LORDE

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The singerdid not approvewhen she found photos from a performance had been edited to remove her blemishes. “I find this curious – two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok :-),” she wrote onTwitter, sharing both a retouched and raw pic from the show.

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KERRY WASHINGTON

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10of 19MEGHAN TRAINORValerie Macon/AFP/GettyTrainor is “so sick” of photoshopping – so sick, in fact, that she took down her “Me Too” music video because “they Photoshopped the crap out of me,” she told her fans on Snapchat. “I’m over it, so I had them take it down until they fix it,” she added. Trainor went on to say that she had “never approved” the version that went up. Clearly, the video, which she said showed a much smaller version of her waist, really upset her: She captioned one of her snaps “Cried all morning lol hate them.” But you can’t keep Trainor down for long: She revealed onWatch What Happens Livethat she had approved a new version, sans Photoshopping.

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MEGHAN TRAINOR

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Trainor is “so sick” of photoshopping – so sick, in fact, that she took down her “Me Too” music video because “they Photoshopped the crap out of me,” she told her fans on Snapchat. “I’m over it, so I had them take it down until they fix it,” she added. Trainor went on to say that she had “never approved” the version that went up. Clearly, the video, which she said showed a much smaller version of her waist, really upset her: She captioned one of her snaps “Cried all morning lol hate them.” But you can’t keep Trainor down for long: She revealed onWatch What Happens Livethat she had approved a new version, sans Photoshopping.

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ZENDAYA

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12of 19PADMA LAKSHMIMatteo Prandoni/BFA/Rex ShutterstockTheTop Chefis proud to show off every part of her body … and thatincludesher nipples. “Yup those are my nipples. So what?” she captioneda photo on Instagramfrom her cover shoot forElle India. “We have all become so afraid of what a woman’s natural body actually looks like these days. Thank you @elleindiaofficial for not airbrushing them out!” (Lakshmi humorously noted that they used to be “a bit higher” before breast-feeding.)

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PADMA LAKSHMI

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TheTop Chefis proud to show off every part of her body … and thatincludesher nipples. “Yup those are my nipples. So what?” she captioneda photo on Instagramfrom her cover shoot forElle India. “We have all become so afraid of what a woman’s natural body actually looks like these days. Thank you @elleindiaofficial for not airbrushing them out!” (Lakshmi humorously noted that they used to be “a bit higher” before breast-feeding.)

13of 19RUMER WILLISJesse Grant/GettyAfter seeing the results of an editorial shoot she did with sisters Tallulah and Scout, Willis made it clear that she’s not okay with her image being altered. “Any friends of fans of mine who posted this I would appreciate if you took it down,” she wrote alongside the pic in question onInstagram. “The photographer Photoshopped my face to make my jaw smaller and I find it really offensive for anyone to try and change the way you look so drastically.” The actress went on to explain why she considers Photoshopping without consent to be a type of bullying: “I love the way I look and I won’t support anyone who would feel a need to change the way I look to make me beautiful. Whether or not they realize it, it is a form of bullying, which I won’t stand for.”

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RUMER WILLIS

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After seeing the results of an editorial shoot she did with sisters Tallulah and Scout, Willis made it clear that she’s not okay with her image being altered. “Any friends of fans of mine who posted this I would appreciate if you took it down,” she wrote alongside the pic in question onInstagram. “The photographer Photoshopped my face to make my jaw smaller and I find it really offensive for anyone to try and change the way you look so drastically.” The actress went on to explain why she considers Photoshopping without consent to be a type of bullying: “I love the way I look and I won’t support anyone who would feel a need to change the way I look to make me beautiful. Whether or not they realize it, it is a form of bullying, which I won’t stand for.”

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LENA DUNHAM

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15of 19LADY GAGAMatt Baron/BEI/ShutterstockWhile being honored atGlamour’s 2013 Women of the Year Awards, Gaga revealed her dissatisfaction with her own heavily-tweaked cover look on the mag. “I felt my skin looked too perfect. I felt my hair looked too soft…I do not look like this when I wake up in the morning,” she said about the photos. She added, “It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers…When the covers change, that’s when culture changes.”

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LADY GAGA

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While being honored atGlamour’s 2013 Women of the Year Awards, Gaga revealed her dissatisfaction with her own heavily-tweaked cover look on the mag. “I felt my skin looked too perfect. I felt my hair looked too soft…I do not look like this when I wake up in the morning,” she said about the photos. She added, “It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers…When the covers change, that’s when culture changes.”

16of 19ASHLEY BENSONMatt Baron/Rex USAThePretty Little Liarsstar was not a fan of what appeared to be an outdated, manipulatedposterfor the show’s mid-season 4 return. “Saw this floating around….hope it’s not the poster,” she said onInstagram. “Our faces in this were from 4 years ago…..and we all look ridiculous. Way too much photo shop. We all have flaws. No one looks like this. It’s not attractive.”

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ASHLEY BENSON

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ThePretty Little Liarsstar was not a fan of what appeared to be an outdated, manipulatedposterfor the show’s mid-season 4 return. “Saw this floating around….hope it’s not the poster,” she said onInstagram. “Our faces in this were from 4 years ago…..and we all look ridiculous. Way too much photo shop. We all have flaws. No one looks like this. It’s not attractive.”

17of 19KATE WINSLETJim Spellman/WireImageAlthough Winslet isn’t downright opposed to being Photoshopped, she did feel the need to make it clear that she had been digitally slimmed down for her 2003GQcover. “I accept magazines retouch photographs all the time,” Winslet told theNew York Post, “I just didn’t want people to think I was a hypocrite and that I’d suddenly lost 30 pounds or whatever. So I just came out and said, ‘Look, I don’t look like that.’ I’m not mad at the magazine, but I have no intention of looking like that.”

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KATE WINSLET

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Although Winslet isn’t downright opposed to being Photoshopped, she did feel the need to make it clear that she had been digitally slimmed down for her 2003GQcover. “I accept magazines retouch photographs all the time,” Winslet told theNew York Post, “I just didn’t want people to think I was a hypocrite and that I’d suddenly lost 30 pounds or whatever. So I just came out and said, ‘Look, I don’t look like that.’ I’m not mad at the magazine, but I have no intention of looking like that.”

18of 19COCO ROCHAAndreas Rentz/French Select/GettyThe supermodel wrote a blog post to express her anger over anElle Brazilcover photo that was edited to imply she was dressed more provocatively during the shoot. “As a high fashion model I have long had a policy of no nudity or partial nudity in my photoshoots,“she wrote. “For my recentElle Brazilcover shoot I wore a body suit under a sheer dress, but recently discovered that the body suit was Photoshopped out to give the impression that I am showing much more skin than I actually was or am comfortable with. This was specifically against my expressed verbal and written direction. I’m extremely disappointed that my wishes and contract were ignored. I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented.”

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COCO ROCHA

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The supermodel wrote a blog post to express her anger over anElle Brazilcover photo that was edited to imply she was dressed more provocatively during the shoot. “As a high fashion model I have long had a policy of no nudity or partial nudity in my photoshoots,“she wrote. “For my recentElle Brazilcover shoot I wore a body suit under a sheer dress, but recently discovered that the body suit was Photoshopped out to give the impression that I am showing much more skin than I actually was or am comfortable with. This was specifically against my expressed verbal and written direction. I’m extremely disappointed that my wishes and contract were ignored. I strongly believe every model has a right to set rules for how she is portrayed and for me these rules were clearly circumvented.”

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RONDA ROUSEY

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