If given the opportunity to pose for Vanity Fair, one can be assured that they will look superb.
This is apparently not good enough for Rumer Willis, who is furious with Mark Williams and Sara Hirakawa for allegedly altering photos taken of her and her sisters for the magazine.
Rumer publicly accused the photographers of making her jawline “smaller,” and took to Instagram to shame them.
“Any friends of fans of mine who posted this I would appreciate if you took it down,” Willis wrote last week.
“The photographer Photoshopped my face to make my jaw smaller and I find it really offensive for anyone to try and change the way you look so drastically. I love the way I look and I won’t support anyone who would feel a need to change the way I look to make me beautiful.
“Whether or not they realize it, it is a form of bullying, which I won’t stand for.”
Categorizing the move as a form of bullying is a stretch, and some could be forgiven for accusing Willis of using the term loosely.
Williams and Hirakawa immediately issued a rebuttal to The Cut.
“The retouching that was done to the photograph was only done to resolve some distortion with using a wide angle lens for a group shot, and not to alter or modify anyone’s face,” the joint statement read.
We used a wide angle lens, and it might’ve made Rumer’s chin look smaller from the higher angle that we shot the image. We did correct for the optics of the lens slightly as people’s heads get distorted through the wide angle lens.
We certainly did not intend to change the way she naturally looks. Our intention was to capture the special bond between Rumer and her sisters.
It saddens us that Rumer feels the way she does about the image and hope she understands that there was never any intention with it to alter her appearance. We should make clear that this image was an outtake and was not published in Vanity Fair or vf.com nor did they ever see it.
tl;dr – Willis shouldn’t be ashamed of this photo. Even if it is an outtake, it’s stunning.