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Grazia admits to digitally slimming Kate Middleton image

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

August 12, 2011 | 2 min read

Fashion magazine Grazia has been forced to admit that it doctored a picture of kate Middleton (now the Duchess of Cambridge) on her wedding day to make the Royal appear thinner.

The May 9 edition of the weekly title hosted a front cover image of the waif thin princess on its front cover, clutching a bouquet of flowers.

Bauer Media admitted it had digitally edited the original image, which featured Prince William clutching Kate’s hand as they emerged from the wedding ceremony by erasing William entirely from the picture.

The Press Complaints Commission noted: "The magazine explained how the image had been altered to remove the arm of Prince William so that the Duchess could be featured on the cover alone. This involved mirroring one of the Duchess's arms and an inadvertent result of the change was the slimming of her waist."

Grazia explained its actions saying it wanted "a great image of the Duchess on her own, but all the photographs had the Duke in too... so we asked our reproduction house to remove him from the picture (common practice among glossy magazines). This would have left the Duchess with only one arm, so they copied over her arm to complete the picture."

The magazine went on to say that they would “never ‘slim down’ a picture of a female role model.”

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