Rumer Willis says the photoshopped pictures “looked weird”. Source: Getty Images
RUMER Willis has slammed a fashion brand for Photoshopping her to look thinner and changing her face, saying the move was “f--ked up”.
The daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis told Us Weekly she was “frustrated” that Franzinska Fox altered pictures of her without her consent in their spring 2015 lookbook.
“If you’re hiring me to be a representative of your brand and you’re changing who I am,” she told the mag, “like drastically changing how I look [while] everybody knows how I look [by] taking away the muscle — I just thought it was odd, you know?
Willis says she felt the photos didn’t even look like her. Source: Supplied
One of the images from the Franzinska Fox lookbook. Source: Supplied
“If you have a zit or something on your face or a weird crease that you want to get rid of, don’t get me wrong: I’ll be the first to be like, ‘Yeah, that looks weird.’”
But she adds the editors “were trying like, to change my face and take the muscles out of my arms… It looked weird.”
Us Weekly reports Willis was “repulsed” by the images as soon as the brand released them via Instagram.
“My stylist told me about it and I was like, ‘Well, that’s f---ed up.’ Then I immediately called my manager and said, ‘You know, this is unacceptable, because that’s not what I want to put out in the world and what I want to represent anyway.’
Rumer Willis says she was “drastically” changed in the retouched photos. Source: Getty Images
“The ideal, you know, in this industry — all of the photos that you’re growing up as a little girl and seeing — are all Photoshopped and retouched. This idea that how you are is not okay [should] not [be] the case. You should be able to feel beautiful with no makeup on, completely naked, and feel totally stoked about how you look and no one should be judging you for anything.”
Willis says she chose to embrace her flaws years ago.
“I just had a moment where I realised that I could either choose to let other people’s perceptions and opinions about me define who I am and let that be how I define and value myself.”
Her way of dealing with it? “I don’t give a crap,” she added. “If you walk out of the house — even if you’re wearing a onesie or sweatpants or an evening gown — as long as you feel good about yourself, that’s all that should matter.”
