Last year, Rumer Willis penned a powerful essay on the importance of embracing your flaws. And this year, she's calling out publications that seemingly try to edit hers out.
The actress, singer and eldest daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis took to Instagram Tuesday to criticize the following image, which was taken during a recent Vanity Fair shoot with her sisters, Scout and Tallulah.
Willis implored any friends who had shared the image to consider taking it down, explaining that she was offended by the extent to which she believed her face had been digitally altered. "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," Willis said. "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."
In response to Willis' message, which has received nearly 10,000 likes, photographers Mark Williams and Sara Hirakawa released a statement Wednesday, where they kinda sorta apologized.
"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. 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."
