Actress and Dancing with the Stars winner Rumer Willis is the latest victim of what we’ve come to know as a Photoshop fail, and she is not backing down in her response to the situation.
In photos taken for the new issue of Vanity Fair, Willis is seen posing with her sisters, Tallulah and Scout. After seeing one of the images from the shoot, the actress took to Instagram to alert her many followers of her feelings about the photo. Willis claims the photographers who took the shots doctored the image to make her jaw look smaller. She is rightly upset to see the magazine could not accept her natural beauty without making a few tweaks to the features that make her uniquely gorgeous.
Rumer goes on to state that this drastic change to her appearance is “a form of bullying, which I won’t stand for.” We feel you, sister!
Photographers Mark Williams and Sara Hirakawa issued a statement following Rumer’s Instagram post, shedding some light on the image’s inconsistencies: “The retouching that was done to the photograph was only done to resolve some distortion with using a wide angle lens for a group shot, and not to alter or modify anyone’s face…It saddens us that Rumer feels the way she does about the image and hope she understands that there was never any intention with it to alter her appearance.”
Though this explanation may be enough to prove the intention behind this Photoshop flop is a simple misunderstanding, it is great to see Willis joining the fight against the overly edited images we continue to see in magazines. We love that Rumer understands the importance of loving the skin you’re in; it is clear she loves herself despite the fact that others might “feel a need to change” how she looks.