Demi Moore Photo Editing Controversy
The issue of drastic photo retouching became national news when in the December 2009 issue, actress Demi Moore was presented with a remarkably slim figure and what appeared to many critics including Anthony Citrano of BoingBoing, to be a poorly "Photoshopped" hip. Both the magazine and Moore denied this claim, with the actress even posting on her personal Twitter account what she claimed was the original photo from the shoot, and further disputed that the editors of W had slimmed her figure to make her appear thinner.
Citrano later challenged this claim by Moore, by offering $5,000 to charity, if Moore could prove that the photo she provided was the original photo from the shoot.
The issue was escalated when on November 24, 2009, the consumer watchdog website The Consumerist posted an article, claiming that they had discovered the original photo used on the cover, asserting that Moore's head, legs, and arms were superimposed on the hips and torso of model Anja Rubik.
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