Skinny White Lie

Kate Middleton has a divine figure, and she wore The Dress as much as it wore her for adornment.  However, a recent magazine article is drawing fire for "inadvertently" manipulating an image and the effect just happened to further slim Middleton to the point of looking ridiculous.

The cover quickly drew public outrage and a complaint about the inaccuracy of the photo was registered with Britain’s Press Complaints Commission. After an investigation (we're imagining they just looked at the photos!), the commission ruled that the magazine had in fact doctored the image. According to MSNBC, Grazia has confirmed the allegations.

A spokesperson at the magazine explained that the re-touching SNAFU all started after the Grazia staff were unable to locate a solo shot of Middleton in her wedding dress. Magazine editors had trouble finding an image of the Duchess where she wasn’t linked arm-in-arm with William. (You’ll notice her arm is reaching up in the photo on the left). So they decided to create something that wasn’t there. “This involved mirroring one of the duchess’s arms and an inadvertent result of the change was the slimming of her waist,” the Complaints Commission reported.

I'm glad to see they came clean (how could they hope to deny it?) but the picture is a little gross.  They did her no favors, but I do not know what the lines are in photographs in reporting.  At what point does a touch-up become a change, and at what point are magazines required to disclose the depth of their editing?