Everyone's talking about Priyanka Chopra's armpits on the cover of Maxim... and not in a good way
Priyanka Chopra is an Indian actress and activist who is currently starring on US TV in the hit series Quantico.
She's a bonafide babe and has been named the hottest woman in the world by Maxim India, who have made her their cover star this summer.
But there's just one slight problem with the image they've used - it's so photoshopped, Priyanka's armpits look more like a Barbie dolls than a human woman, completely smooth and with no hint of pigmentation or creases or the stubbly remains of hair that just won't budge no matter how many times you run the razor over it.
Fans of the actress were quick to complain about just how ridiculous it was that a magazine would, once again, set unrealistic standards for it's readers.
Is it just me or her armpits are too unrealistic...pic.twitter.com/M5lNeqp51r
" Rabiya Raheel Saeed (@RaRabiyaraheel) June 18, 2016
news is.. I just read this..They Photoshop armpits .. magazines do this!
" Sheri Lynn Pritchett (@PoemTrees) June 18, 2016
Priyanka Chopra's armpit in the Maxim cover is so unrealistic.
" Mel (@chillilemonwine) June 18, 2016
Priyanka has yet to comment on the controversy, but she appears happy with the cover, after replying with a simple thank you' to a tweet which rhetorically asked: How insanely HOT are you looking?'
Thank u @Sophie_Choudry much love https://t.co/ft6NlY9s9z
" PRIYANKA (@priyankachopra) June 17, 2016
It does leave you wondering when magazines will learn that we will continue to buy their issues even with real women with real bodies published on their covers.
Priyanka becomes the latest in a long line of unnecessary photoshop fails, including one that led Lena Dunham to refuse to allow any future shoots to be photoshopped, and one which led to Fifth Harmony's Ally Brooke ending up with two right feet.
Lena claimed that Spanish magazine Tentaciones had photoshopped her body, writing on Instagram that this is NOT what my body has ever looked like or will ever look like - the magazine has done more than the average photoshop'.
The publisher later clarified that the never retouched the picture and that he snap had been approved by photo agency Corbis - who supplied it - Afanador and Lena's publicist before being used, which led to Lena to write that she was done with allowing images that retouch and reconfigure my face and body to be released into the world'.
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