Elle Magazine Deny Lightening Gabourey Sidbe’s Skin

Elle Magazine have denied accusations that they made Gabourey Sidbe‘s skin a couple of shades lighter using photoshop on the cover of their magazine.

For their 25th anniversary Elle feature four celebrities on four different covers – Gabourey, Lauren Conrad, Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox. All of them are supposed to be “examples of young women who were changing the world”.

It’s not only the skin that Elle are being accused of changing, the other three covers show the girls in full length photos but Gabourey’s just shows her from the chest up. Elle deny and funny business…

“We have four separate covers this month and Gabby’s cover was not retouched any more or less than the others, we had 25 cover-worthy subjects in our portfolio and we chose Gabby because of who she is. We shot this as a story of exuberant young women changing the world. If you take a look at the portfolio, each of the women were shot in different ways and for different reasons.”

Well there’s no denying that her skin does look a lot lighter in the cover compared to the photo on the right.

source: Elle magazine in Gabourey Sidibe skin lightening controversy [Telegraph]

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