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Aubrey O'Day CLAPS BACK astatine Photoshop Allegations
Aubrey O'Day is looking backmost astatine a challenging section of her life.
In August 2020, The Daily Mail published a bid of photos of what the outlet described arsenic an "unrecognizable" O'Day retired for a locomotion with her dogs, resulting successful immoderate societal media users to impeach the vocalist of heavy edited her erstwhile Instagram posts to look thinner. The body-shaming comments prompted O'Day to respond by posting a swimsuit selfie portion holding a portion of insubstantial with the time, day and words "this is degrading" written connected it.
"It's truthful sick what ppl volition bash for click bait!" she said astatine the time. "And that my lawyer needed this photograph to support maine against it.. When is this manufacture going to halt abusing women's bodies?"
Now, successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News, O'Day reflected connected however online critics called her "obese" and "fat" implicit the pictures.
"It was my downfall day," she recalled. "When it came clip to laughter astatine me, everybody was laughing."
While that wasn't the archetypal clip the 38-year-old look disapproval implicit her appearance, she was inactive wounded by the online response. "My body's been connected the chopping artifact since I was 17. Those were not the archetypal abdominous photos," she shared. "There's been a batch of abdominous photos of Aubrey and I wasn't adjacent fat."
O'Day added, "I'll walk the remainder of my beingness trying to heal with however galore inaccurate things person been told astir me."
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Part of O'Day's healing travel includes making her "Couple Goals" euphony video, which she said helped her embrace her body. While she initially wanted to usage a assemblage treble for the project's nude scenes, the Danity Kane alum said director Alfredo Flores—who's worked with the likes of Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez—was the 1 who helped her regain her assurance and quash her self-doubt.
"I felt truthful good," O'Day said of the filming process. "I felt truthful comfy successful my body."
O'Day is making the uncensored mentation of the video disposable connected her OnlyFans account. Why?
"It's offering my assemblage up to beryllium to radical again," explained O'Day, who said she present has a "different perspective" connected the nationalist dialog astir her appearance. "I emotion the reclaiming of it."
And that's wherefore O'Day isn't too acrophobic astir the recent chatter astir however she Photoshops herself into abrogation photos. "My Instagram looks the mode it does not due to the fact that I'm frightened of my body," she said, "it's due to the fact that erstwhile I'm successful Bali and I standard a two-hour mountain...I don't person a f--king caboodle kit, a tripod, my wigs and a full customized enactment of covering to enactment on. Nor americium I astatine each funny successful being the bitch that's holding her fucking camera retired with a selfie instrumentality taking photos of herself."
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Explaining however she prefers to unrecorded successful the moment, O'Day continued, "I americium successful Bali. I americium present to heal. I americium not bringing a camera and desecrating this spot arsenic a Photoshop infinitesimal for Instagram. I volition springiness you the photograph erstwhile I'm back."
She added, "No, it doesn't marque maine inauthentic."
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