Lena Dunham has had it up to her digitally-slimmed neck with being photoshopped.
Just last week she posted the following Insta – a pic of a Spanish magazine cover where her image had been heavily retouched:
And she followed it up today with a no holds barred piece in her weekly e-mail newsletter, Lenny Letter. Exercising her infamously candid approach, she describes how early on in her career she was ‘grateful’ when her pictures were doctored:
“When I started getting photographed by professionals to promote my work, it didn’t occur to me to ask about, or to question, the use of Photoshop. I was 24, and whatever they did to make women appear important, desirable, and worthy of praise was what I wanted.
“When my skin seemed almost painted on, when my nose was thin and pointed, I felt grateful for the future Google image search a potential paramour would enjoy, replacing a few candids of me with angry red zits at an indie-film-festival party.”
She goes on to detail her experience with photographers and the photoshopping process, before announcing that she’s so so done:
“Done with allowing images that retouch and reconfigure my face and body to be released into the world. The gap between what I believe and what I allow to be done to my image has to close now.”
“If that means no more fashion-magazine covers, so be it.”
Not a bad sentiment, that one.
Source: Lenny Letter.