I generally feel bad for celebrities when they get criticized for some crappy editorial decisions made by magazines. While celebrities and their teams work with the magazines so that no one looks like a thirsty famewhore (usually), the celebrities usually don’t have a say in how those images are manipulated or Photoshopped. Take this Maxim India cover of Priyanka Chopra. Maxim India decided to name Priyanka “the Hottest Woman in the World.” Her team agreed to that, and agreed to a photoshoot. The photos were probably sexy and beautiful. But the magazine’s editors decided to Photoshop the crap out of Priyanka’s armpits! That’s not on her (although she did post the cover on her social media). Priyanka’s team wasn’t asking Maxim, “please make Priyanka’s armpits look like doll pits.”
I actually feel the struggle here. So many light-haired women can be all “oh, I’m going sleeveless today and I forgot to shave, oh well!” But it’s different for Indian ladies and it’s different for dark-haired, swarthy types. If I went sleeveless and there were somehow photos of my pits, I would DEMAND that someone Photoshop my pits to resemble doll-pits, just because I can shave and two seconds later I have a gross “five o’clock shadow.” The struggle is real.
That being said, Priyanka goes sleeveless/strapless all the time and her armpits are perfectly normal. There was no reason to give her Barbie pits.
Photos courtesy of Maxim India, WENN.
