Magazine denies adding cellulite to Lara Bingle's body

Herald online

27 Nov, 2013 12:00 AM2 mins to read

Lara Bingle has posted a picture of the Famous cover next to the same images in Who Weekly. Photo / Instagram

The editor of the magazine at the centre of the Lara Bingle bikini body bungle denies altering the images to make the swimsuit model look less sexy.

Famous magazine editor, Matt Frilingos, bluntly denied Bingle's accusations, saying "we have not photo-shopped the images of Lara in Famous this week".

"It is not Famous' agenda to make women look less than natural. The reality is we want to put real women on our covers," the editor told Australian newspaper, The Telegraph.

On Monday night, Bingle lashed out on Twitter over the current cover of the weekly magazine, featuring snaps of the 24-year-old Aussie in a black string bikini frolicking at the beach.

THESE ARE THE SAME IMAGES WHO MAGAZINE USED A FEW MONTHS AGO AND THEY DID NOT LOOK LIKE THIS. @FAMOUSweekly

She went on to label the mag "a disgrace" and said the same snaps, taken at Palm Beach and on Sydney Harbour, were used by rival magazine, Who Weekly, last month, sans-cellulite.

Perpetuating self doubt in all women in the name of making a quick buck. @FAMOUSweekly: @MsLaraBingle The images are not photoshopped.

The photographers were reluctant to enter the online war, but one told The Telegraph that "the light" may have played a part in the discrepancy.

Who Weekly editor Nicky Briger said was surprised a second set of unseen pictures had come out of the shoot and denied airbrushing Bingle to enhance the images.

"Ours was not a paid interview. Nor were the images set up in collaboration with Lara," she said.

"We bought the photos from an agency and we did brighten them but we did not manipulate them."