Brilio.net/en - Yesterday, Lena Dunham took to social media to call out Tentaciones, a Spanish magazine on which she was the cover star. She claimed on her Instagram account, which has a solid 2.4 million followers, that the picture was unquestionably retouched.
Published under the image of the magazine, she wrote: Oh hello Spanish magazine Tentaciones! I am genuinely honored to be on your cover and so happy you used a pic by @ruvenafanador he always makes me feel gorgeous.
But this is not what my body has ever looked like or will ever look like mad Photoshop has been done to this iteration. So if youre into what I do, why not be honest with your readers?
Much love, Lena.
The post got lots of likes as suspected. Lena has fought valiantly to promote body-positive images in her career, and her supporters no doubt stood behind her.
But alas Lena, you do look in fact, look that good.
The magazine published an open letter to Lena, saying: those who are familiar with and follow our magazine will know that we do not use Photoshop nor other digital tools to change the physical appearance of our cover stars, nor in the features to be found inside. On this occasion, the only thing we did was to crop the image to adapt it to the format of our front page. The magazine also stated that it had not retouched Dunhams image for its cover, instead only cropping the picture to make it fit the format of the magazine with the approval of Dunhams team, who they sent the image to for review.
But all is well that ends well as Tentaciones went on to comment Lenas rebellious spirit and even offered her a magazine subscription, saying: as a courtesy every month, so that you can see for yourself that we like to reflect things the way that they really are.
In the end, Dunham responded with grace on another Instagram post, where she said understood that the photo had been uncropped but not entirely unedited. She went on to say: 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 width but I honestly can't tell what's been slimmed and what hasn't.) I'm not blaming anyone (y'know, except society at large.) I have a long and complicated history with retouching.
Looks like a win-win for everyone; Tentaciones got some solid PR and Lena discovering that hey, I do look that good.
(brl/tis)
