Nicki Minaj Instagram: Singer Claims ESPN Magazine Cover Was Photoshopped
Let the "five-head" jokes begin: Nicki Minaj has taken to social media to complain about the latest cover of ESPN Magazine (which features her on the cover with basketball star Kobe Bryant) that features, as she alleges, a photo of her where her forehead was deliberately photoshopped to look bigger than it really is. Cue the "yeah okay" comments from astute fans...
The Daily Mail is reporting that Onika Maraj (who was infinitely better on the mic when she was Mixtape Nicki, for the record) took to Instagram to claim that her cover photo of this month's issue is what happens "when photo retouching goes horribly wrong." "I love my personal photos, where my forehead doesn't mysteriously grow in length," she wrote sarcastically.
Needless to say, her fans jumped all over the opportunity to comment on the matter, with comments rating from the fan-ish ("They definitely messed up your face, because in every other picture you're flawless") to the dismissive ("Why do you care? You're Photoshopped in every pic anyway." BA-ZING!).
Then, according to USA Today, Nicki posted her behind the scenes photo of the shoot, which -- it appears -- her forehead seems to be much shorter. However, because the behind the scenes photo and the actual cover photo were taken from different angles, it's diffcult to ascertain just how much Photoshopping went into the actual finished product. Moreover, it's not uncommon now -- and it wasn't uncommon in the pre-digital age -- for photos to be retouched, and it's highly unlikely that the editor took extra measures to make the final product look worse than how Nicki actually looks (albeit it may have been done accidentally). Finally, in comparison to some other deliberate Photoshop disasters, Nicki doesn't actually look half-bad.
And, as far as this writer is concerned, she should be grateful that ANYONE cares about her enough to put her on a cover of a magazine in the first place.
Nevertheless, Nicki then took a minute to show gratitude after it became clear that no one cared about her First World Problems. "So honored to be a part of this with Kobe. Had a blast," she wrote.
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