Zendaya images that sparked a firestorm: Full set reveals why the popstar ordered magazine.

by - January 04, 2024

 Just a week after Zendaya forced Los Angeles-based fashion magazine Modeliste to pull its November issue because it featured dramatically retouched photos of her body, the company has kept its word and fully restored the images to the original beauty.

While Modeliste never intended to publish the manipulated images after profusely apologizing to Zendaya, the Photoshopped photos from the pulled issue have been anonymously provided to Daily Mail Online - and it is clear why the 19-year-old singer and actress said the unnecessary editing perpetuated 'unrealistic ideals of beauty'.

A comparison of the unedited and retouched photos show that the already slender star's legs and torso were made to look significantly slimmer, while saturation of the images also appeared to have been changed, giving her skin a more tanned appearance. 

And while over-the-top photo editing is far too common in the magazine industry, the teen star made it a point to speak out against the images as soon as she saw them. 

Zendaya, whose full name is Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman, took to Instagram last week to post a side-by-side image of the retouched and unedited versions of one photo from the shoot to make a statement about the impossible beauty standards inflicted on women.

'Had a new shoot come out today and was shocked when I found my 19-year-old hips and torso quite manipulated,' she wrote. 'These are the things that make women self-conscious, that create the unrealistic ideals of beauty that we have.

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