The 50 worst celebrity Photoshop fails of all time

Magazines have always been in the business of crafting celebrity appearances. Even before Photoshop existed in 1988, the magazine industry has collaborated with celebrities to carefully present images that shape our consciousness.

Digital editing takes that to another degree. Now, any celebrity can change their appearance in a photo with the swipe of a finger.

For many people, it’s a serious problem. One major criticism lobbed at celebrities and magazines is that they promote unrealistic body standards— especially for women.

Celebrities often post Photoshopped selfies. And, of course, altered images are common in advertising as well. Sometimes, though, the manipulation is obvious. And that leads fans, critics, and even celebrities themselves to sometimes react harshly.

Here are 50 celebrity Photoshops that turned into disasters.

1. Lena Dunham was clearly missing something in this 2014 Vogue cover shoot.

Her arm mysteriously disappeared.

Other photos from the shoot were also heavily Photoshopped, but Dunham was OK with it. She told Slate that she saw the Photo shoot as a fantasy, not something that was supposed to emulate real life.

“Vogue isn’t the place that we go to look at realistic women,” she said. “Vogue is the place that we go to look at beautiful clothes and fancy places and escapism and so I feel like if the story reflects me and I happen to be wearing a beautiful Prada dress and surrounded by beautiful men and dogs, what’s the problem?”

2. Zendaya was surprised to see her body look different in a 2015 shoot for Modeliste magazine.
Zendaya was shocked to find her body was altered. The magazine’s version is on the left, the original on the right. Zendaya/Instagram; Modeliste Magazine
“Had a new shoot come out today and was shocked when I found my 19-year-old hips and torso quite manipulated,” she wrote on Instagram. “These are the things that make women self conscious, that create the unrealistic ideals of beauty that we have. Anyone who knows who I am knows I stand for honest and pure self love. So I took it upon myself to release the real pic (right side) and I love it.”

The magazine blamed a third party editor and posted the original photo.
Modeliste published the original photo after blaming an editor for the modifications. Modeliste Magazine
The magazine’s editor blamed “an independent editing company,” pulled the issue, and restored the original photo for publication.

“Modeliste advocates positive body image, self love and the empowerment of women,” Amy McCabe, the Editor in Chief, wrote in an open letter. “We are all beautiful and unique in our own way, and it is through these differences that make us who we are as individuals.”

3. Fans called out this Kylie Jenner selfie for Photoshop.
One of Jenner’s many selfies. Kylie Jenner/Facebook
The image seems to have a glaring issue.

The wall in the background appears to curve right around where her stomach bends in.
Whoops? Kylie Jenner/Facebook
For what it’s worth, Jenner took to Snapchat not long after to explain that it wasn’t Photoshop, it’s simply the way her curtain looks.

4. In 2016, Meghan Trainor posted a side-by-side image of what she looks like in real life and how she was made to appear in her “Me Too” music video.
Meghan Trainor wasn’t happy about her image in the video. Meghan Trainor/Instagram
“They Photoshopped the crap out of me and I’m so sick of it, so I took it down until they fix it,” she explained on Snapchat.

It was fixed within a day.
Meghan Trainor in her “Me Too” music video. Meghan Trainor/YouTube
After Trainor took the video down, she got the studio to release a version of the video without body manipulation.

5. Katy Perry appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone in August 2010.
Katy Perry on the cover of Rolling Stone. Mark Seliger/Rolling Stone
She was interviewed at length about how she went from a singer in a church to a sex icon.

Pre-Photoshop photos appeared on Tumblr.
The unedited photo. Lourtney Cove/Tumblr
Rolling Stone drew criticism for making changes to her body. Perry’s skin had been smoothed over, her thighs thinned, hand modified, and had several moles removed.

6. Vogue posted this photo of Miranda Kerr on Instagram after the 2012 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
Miranda Kerr and other Victoria’s Secret angels Instagram/Miranda Kerr
But when Kerr posted the same photo in November, fans noticed a huge difference.

Kerr’s waistline in her Instagram post is noticeably smaller than it is in the original photo.
Take a look at her hips compared with the first photo. @mirandakerr/Instagram
She claimed she pulled it off the internet and didn’t know it was Photoshopped, but it’s not the only photo she’s posted with those issues.

7. Adam Levine appeared in the November 2011 issue of Vogue Russia with his then-girlfriend, model Anne Vyalitsyna.
Levine and Vyalitsyna. Vogue Russia via Jezebel
Something’s not right.

He lost half his torso.
Yikes. Vogue Russia
Something went seriously wrong when the image was edited.

8. Jennifer Lawrence appeared on the June 2011 cover of Flare magazine.
Jennifer Lawrence on the cover of Flare. Flare
The original photos show that Lawrence’s cover image was modified heavily.

Her body looks different in the original photos.
These were all pronounced to look more “idealized” in editing. Flare
Her waist was thinned and her cheekbones and collarbone are noticeably more pronounced.

Lawrence has been outspoken on her dislike of altered images.

9. Kerry Washington’s 2016 Adweek cover didn’t thrill the actress.
Kerry Washington on April 2016’s Adweek cover. Adweek
She expressed her unhappiness on Instagram.

She said it looks very different from what she sees when she looks in the mirror.
Kerry Washington in 2017. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images
“I just felt weary,” Washington wrote on Instagram. “It felt strange to look at a picture of myself that is so different from what I look like when I look in the mirror. It’s an unfortunate feeling.”

Adweek’s editorial director at the time said the magazine made “minimal adjustments.”

“Kerry Washington is a class act. We are honored to have her grace our pages,” James Cooper said in a statement. “To clarify, we made minimal adjustments, solely for the cover’s design needs. We meant no disrespect, quite the opposite. We are glad she is enthusiastic about the piece and appreciate her honest comments.”

10. Kim Kardashian West wore a tight black getup in the April/May 2009 issue of Complex Magazine.
Kim Kardashian in a 2009 issue of Complex. Complex via The Huffington Post
But Compex made a huge mistake.

The original photo was accidentally uploaded on the Complex website.
It’s not the only time Kardashian West was Photoshopped. Complex Magazine via E!; Jacob Shamsian/INSIDER
Kardashian West was made to look like she has smoother, lighter skin, and a thinner appearance in the retouched version.

She was fine with it.

“So what: I have a little cellulite,” she wrote on her website. “What curvy girl doesn’t!?”

It’s far from the only time Kim has been in a photoshop fail.

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