时尚街拍网Girlscreator and starLena Dunham took to Instagram on Monday evening to accuseSpanish newspaper El PaisofPhotoshopping a picture of her on itscover, claiming "this is not what my body has ever looked like or will ever look like."
The29-year-old actor, director and writerposted a picture of the Marchcover of its monthly supplementTentaciones (Temptations)with the caption:"Oh hello El Pais!I am genuinely honored to be on your cover and so happy you licensed a pic by@ruvenafanador, who always makes me feel gorgeous.BUT this is NOT what my body has ever looked like or will ever look like- the magazine has done more than the average photoshop.So if you"re into what I do, why not be honest with your readers?Much love, Lena."
El Paisresponded to theaccusationof airbrushing, and deniesretouching the image.A response on itswebsite (translated from Spanish) clarifies:"For this cover we used a picture of the session that you made ??????in 2013 Ruven Afanador photographer, published at the time by Entertainment Weekly."
The magazineexplainsthat the images were acquiredthrough the Corbis agency and claim its teamapplied nodigital retouching:"Those who know and follow our magazine know that we do not use Photoshop or other digital tools to change the physique of the people featured on our cover or inside stories.This time we just cut the original image to fit the format of our cover."
In the response article,El Paisplace itscover on top ofthe image of Lena Dunhamwhich wasoriginally shared on the photographer Ruven Afanador"sFacebook page in 2013, to show "the picture is exactly the same."
The article ends praisingthe Not That Kind of Girl authorfor her "rebellious spirit" and asking for her address so that the magazinecan give her a free subscription so she can see "that welike to reflect things as they are."
The plot thickened on Tuesday afternoon when Dunham responded to El Pais" claim that it had merely cropped the picture, with the starinterestingly revealing that she could no longer tell if her body had been doctored or not."[But] it"s a weird feeling to see a photo and not know if it"s your own body anymore (and I"m pretty sure that will never be my thigh gap but I honestly can"t tell what"s been slimmed and what hasn"t.)" she wrote on Instagram, adding:"I have a long and complicated history with retouching.I wanna live in this wild world and play the game and get my work seen, and I also want to be honest about who I am and what I stand for."She also apologised for pointing her finger at the title, writing:"Maybe it"s getting sick and realizing ALL that matters is that this body work, not that it be milky white and slim.But I want something different now.Thanks for helping me figure that out and sorry to make you the problem, you cool Spanish magazine you.Time to get to the bottom of this in a bigger way.
Dunham has been praised for her message about body image,showing her naked body in front of millions in most episodesofherTV show Girls.But this isn"t the first time Dunham has been at the centre of a Photoshop drama.In 2014, Jezebel offered $10,000 for the original pictures from her US Vogue cover shoot."Some s--t is just too ridiculous to engage.Let"s use our energy wisely, 2014," Dunhamwrote on Twitter at the time."10k?Give it to charity then just order HBO."
"Iwas kind of scared to see the un-retouched images of me, I was like, maybe I???m delusional and I don???t look how I think I look,"Dunhamsaid in an interview withBill Simmons for Grantland."And it was like???they smoothed a line here, and shaved a line on my neck.It was the most minimal retouching.I felt completely respected byVogue???"
She added:"Instead of going like, ???Hey, we kinda f***ed up, these pictures aren???t that retouched Lena, enjoy theVoguespread that you???ve been excited about since you were eight years old,??? they were like, ???She???s not retouched, but she could???ve been.???It was this weird almost political maneuvering that I just had a lot of trouble respecting.???
So who did Photoshop Lena?Or was she not Photoshopped at all?Answers on a postcard, please.
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