Photo editing is a huge part of social media. Many Instagram users heavily rely on tools like filters to make photos look supposedly more enticing. It's a way to make pics "prettier" and more fitting to your particular aesthetic, but sometimes people take things too far, especially celebrities. Using tools like Photoshop to unrealistically alter the way they look in pics is something that fans often call famous people out for.
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Whether it's on social media or when they're on magazine covers, it's easy to tell when a person looks totally different than what they normally look like. Some celebrities have even called out publications for altering their bodies or images, and have pushed them to show their readers exactly how the stars are without editing. Also, blurring out wrinkles, blemishes, cellulite or imperfections using photo apps like Facetune can be problematic for a lot of reasons. Magazines have had a huge effect on women's body image issues and now social media is causing young women and girls to compare themselves unfavorably to highly edited images.
They are growing up seeing women who appear to be "flawless" without realizing that photos have been extremely altered. There have been many famous women including Lupita Nyong'o and others, who have taken a stand against publications that have edited their cover photos without their consent. This is important because it sends a message to their fans that the stars are comfortable with the world seeing them as they are and that beauty has nothing to do with perfection.
So many celebrities and non-celebs are stepping away from presenting highly manipulated versions of themselves on social media, but it's impossible to scroll through social media and not see heavily edited, altered, and filtered images. So take a look at some Photoshop fail moments to remind yourself that pictures can lie.
A poorly edited picture of Khloé Kardashian somehow made it online.
OK, so there is all kinds of drama surrounding this particular alleged fail. Somehow a picture of Khloé Kardashian was edited to make her butt look bigger and her waist look smaller. Then it was reported that Khloé posted that picture on her IG grid and deleted it, but Khloé says she never posted it and no one seems to have any receipts to prove that she actually did post it. The actual photo without the weird editing was posted on the account of Ash K Holm, Khloe’s makeup artist.
This fail involves Khloé’s daughter True.
Kim Kardashian shared some images of her daughter Chicago and Khloé’s daughter True, except it wasn’t really True in the pictures and people noticed the pictures looked strange. The pictures were actually of Chicago and Stormi, Kylie Jenner’s daughter, but Kim just pasted True’s head on Stormi’s body. Why? Because Kylie didn’t consent to having pictures of Stormi shared, so Kim did a little switcheroo.
What happened to Kourtney Kardashian’s leg?
Kourtney has been praised for letting her stretch marks show in pictures she posts. It makes her more relatable. But this particular picture is not relatable. She seems to be heavily airbrushed and her legs don’t make sense. Her bottom leg seems to have detached itself from her torso because the proportions are so off.
Rosalía went super heavy on the editing and it did not go unnoticed.
When Rosalía attended the 2021 LOS40 Music Awards 2021, she wore a beautiful blue dress with butterfly embellishments. The “Malamente” singer shared her look on social media, but when Getty Images shared pictures of her in the same outfit, it became very clear that the version she posted was super Photoshopped.
Adamari López got too much of the princess treatment.
La Chaparrita de Oro was on the cover of People en Español in September 2021. The idea was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Disney World in Florida with the beloved Puerto Rican star by giving her the Disney princess treatment. Unfortunately, they made her look more like a plastic princess doll than a living breathing human.
Selena Gomez's selfie had a clear Photoshop mistake.
Sel's hairstylist posted this pic to show off the singer's new cut in 2017. The door on the left side of her selfie was clearly crooked, and although the pic was gorgeous, her fans were quick to notice the error.
Kylie Jenner has been accused of Photoshopping many of her pics.
The makeup mogul posted this pic in 2017, and her fans jumped in the comments to say how edited it looked because the curtain by her hip looked altered. She later addressed "the Photoshop police" on Snapchat and said that the curtain hangs crooked.
Fans were quick to tell Shakira she doesn't need Photoshop.
While some retouching for promotional campaigns is understandable, this photo of Shakira to promote her Dance Diamond fragrance took things to the extreme. Fans reminded the Colombian singer that she doesn't need to Photoshop herself because she's perfect the way she is.
Jennifer Lopez laughed off the haters who said she altered her abs selfie.
After she posted one of her many gym selfies, fans noticed a blurred area on her waistline and she took to the comments to address the comments. "Omg…just a smudge on the mirror…lol…not photoshop. #lordblessthehaters #gymrat #youshouldtryit #wishtherewasaphotoshopforhaters," she fired back.
Thalía's fans were not having it with this photo.
Some Instagram users commented on the photo asking the singer why she had edited her face so much.
Lupita Nyong'o called out a magazine for editing out her natural hair.
"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," the actress wrote on Instagram about the incident. "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."
Maluma was falsely called out for a Photoshop fail.
The Colombian singer had a photo of himself surrounded by semi-naked women for the single cover of his song "Mala Mia," and fans called him out when they spotted a random arm in the center of the pic that didn't seem to belong to any of the models in the pic. The thing is that the photo is cropped. If you look at the full image, there is a model attached to that arm.
Kim Kardashian raised some eyebrows with this butt selfie.
Back in 2014 when Kim was still friends with Blac Chyna, the two curvy models snapped a mirror selfie. Fans noticed that the floor on the left side looked a bit warped.
Kris Jenner has also fallen victim to the photo-altering epidemic.
The Kardashian-Jenner matriarch posed for a photo alongside Gordon Ramsay and her face looked so much smoother than the chef's and fans accused her of editing out her wrinkles.
Demi Lovato was accused of Photshopping a pic for a serious reason.
A fan accused Demi of breaking her sobriety in April 2018 after a photo of her hanging out with friends surfaced online. In this image, it looks like Demi has nothing in her hand but the original shows that the singer was holding a drink. She later denied it and said it was Red Bull and not liquor.
Christina Aguilera has always been gorgeous, but one of her magazine covers raised some eyebrows.
The singer appeared on the October 2012 cover of Lucky looking as gorgeous as ever. While she's naturally beautiful, some critics suggested that her waist looked smaller than usual and that her face looked like it had undergone some alterations.
Mariah Carey has always had a killer body.
The singer was featured as the cover star for ELLE magazine in August 2008. She looked way thinner than usual and her head looked disproportionate with the rest of her body.
Camila Mendes took a stand against a popular magazine.
The Riverdale star called out Cosmopolitan Philippines for reducing the size of her waist on the cover in March 2018. "We want their readers to know that those bodies are not ours, they have been distorted from their natural beauty," Camila wrote on her Instagram Story at the time. Her costar, Lili Reinhart, also spoke up against the editing and shared the before and after of the photos on Instagram.
Mariah Carey's cabinet looked a bit warped in this pic.
The cabinet in between the singer's legs seems to bend a little on one side. Fans took to the comments to point it out and one laughed it off calling her a "Photoshop icon."
Everyone knows Ninel Conde's body is insane, but so is her use of Photoshop.
The singer's body is already great so the use of more editing to make her waist seem even smaller is totally unnecessary.
Chiquis Rivera was put on blast.
When she appeared on The Riveras reality show wearing a surfing suit, the show's Instagram account shared an image comparing that look with her usual bathing suit pics. Fans commented on the pic saying she looked heavier on the show because she usually uses Photoshop on her social media pics.
