Karol G is not happy with her GQ Mexico cover, which hit newsstands this week.
The “Tusa” singer took to Instagram to share her response to the magazine’s cover image that she said was edited. It “does not represent” her, she wrote on Instagram in Spanish. Alongside an image of the GQ cover, she shared a selfie.
“My face does not look like that, my body does not look like that and I feel very happy and comfortable with how I look naturally,” she said.
She thanked the magazine for the opportunity to serve as its cover star for the April/May issue, but said that despite making clear her discontentment with the edits on the photo, nothing was changed prior to publication.
“They didn’t do anything about it, as if to look good I needed all those changes,” she wrote.
USA TODAY has reached out to GQ.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis praised the 32-year-old Saturday for “bringing awareness to an issue I have been concerned about for a long time.” She continued on Instagram: “We are human beings. We are not AI and this genocide against what is naturally beautiful is alarming and needs to be talked about.”
Beyond feeling that the magazine’s move was disrespectful to her, Karol G said GQ was disrespectful to all women who wake up trying to feel comfortable in their own bodies despite societal pressures.
Curtis echoed the sentiment. “I’m very encouraged that a younger person is joining the chorus of disapproval,” the 64-year-old said of the singer. “The cosmeceutical industrial complex wants you to look in the mirror and hate yourself.”
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The Colombian singer has been on the rise. She scored a slot at Coachella last April, where she sang to a sea of blue-wigged fans and brought out J Balvin as her guest. She’s the second female artist to simultaneously hold the No. 1 and 2 spots on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart.
And she’s not the first celebrity to voice concern over image alterations.
In 2016, Meghan Trainor cried after seeing her waist altered in her “Me Too” music video. Zendaya called out Modeliste Magazine for a retouched photo of her in 2015. And Kerry Washington spoke out in 2016, too, saying AdWeek photoshopped its cover of her .
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Contributing: Edward Segarra and Pamela Avila, USA TODAY
