‘We’re all losing our grip on what we look like’: Rosamund Pike speaks out on being photoshopped for film posters
Rosamund Pike speaks out on doctored images
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Actor Rosamund Pike has revealed that she been subject to photo doctoring for film promotion posters, in one case her breasts were changed to look bigger.
Speaking on The Kelly Clarkson Show this week, the British star explained how in the poster for the movie Johnny English Reborn her “breasts were augmented” in what she described as “body-tuning”.
"In the poster for the character shot, I've got a really impressive chest. Which I don't have," she said.
She’s also previously had her eyes photoshopped to be brown in imagery to promote her 2020 movie Radioactive, in which she plays physicist and chemist Marie Curie. "I still don't quite know why,” she pondered.
“There's probably countless times where our image is doctored and we don't notice it," she said. "Because I think we're all losing our grip on what we really look like."
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Pike is not the first celebrity to criticise unrealistic beauty standards and the common industry practice of photoshopping.
Bella Thorne asked GQ Mexico not to touch up her photos in a shoot in 2017, posting on Instagram: "I specifically asked for no retouching on this photo, and lemme tell you I have insecurities, about pretty much everything. That's natural and that's human”.
Zendaya also spoke out on Instagram after a photoshoot, which she said encouraged unrealistic beauty standards.
“Had a new shoot come out today and was shocked when I found my 19-year-old hips and torso quite manipulated. These are the things that make women self-conscious, that create the unrealistic ideals of beauty that we have.”
Lady Gaga has also criticised the media’s use of photoshop on images, and said people should "fight back against the forces that make them feel like they're not beautiful”.
Titanic actress Kate Winslet’s weight has also been commented on in the press, she spoke out when she was airbrushed by GQ magazine in 2003.
"I actually have a Polaroid that the photographer gave me on the day of the shoot … I can tell you they've reduced the size of my legs by about a third,” she later said.
A decade later, in 2013, she criticised a Vogue shoot for excessive retouching. “I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that," said the actress.
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