Supermodel Cindy Crawford shares her beauty secrets (Photo : Reuters/Mario Anzuoni )
Supermodel Cindy Crawford expressed objection to her unretouched photograph that went viral on the Internet when it was leaked early this year.
In an exclusive interview with Elle Canada, Crawford claimed that the journalist who first posted the photograph did not clear with her whether the photo was real or whether she consents for the photograph to be publicized.
"I felt that [the journalist] was inauthentic because she acted like this was great but she didn’t check if I wanted this out or if it was a real picture," Crawford told the magazine.
"Why would seeing a bad picture of me make other people feel good? I felt blindsided. I was very conflicted, to be honest. The story had run a year and a half before, and the picture of me in that outfit was from the bust up. "
"I know my body, and I know it’s not perfect, but maybe I have a false body image; maybe I think I look better than I do. I think that most women are hard on themselves. We think we look worse than we do. So I assumed I fell into that category, even though that picture didn’t reflect what I saw when I looked in the mirror—even in the worst dressing-room lighting.”
The alleged unretouched image of the supermodel was from a photo shoot from Marie Claire, but the magazine has since denied its authenticity claiming that the image has been altered to make Crawford worse.
In a statement published on its website, Marie Claire quotes photographer John Russo as saying that the the image was stolen, while also contesting the authenticity of the image.
"An image of Cindy Crawford taken by me for the December 2013 edition of Marie Claire Mexico was stolen or otherwise unlawfully accessed, and then maliciously altered and distributed to the media," Russo said in a statement published by Marie Claire.
"It has been falsely claimed that this photograph represents an un-retouched image of Cindy Crawford. This is not true. It is a fraudulent, altered version of my photograph."
You may read the full interview of Cindy Crawford for Elle Canada here.
