A magazine has digitally altered a model to appear fatter, rather than thinner.
The model's body was retouched to look curvier for the cover of UK health and wellbeing magazine Healthy.
Editor Jane Druker admitted that the model used — Kamilla Wladyka — was so thin in real life that she needed to be "radically retouched" before appearing on the cover.
According to the UK's Daily Telegraph, the magazine added between 15kg to 20kg to the model's frame.
The magazine claimed that the model had appeared healthy during a casting for the photo shoot a week before it took place, but on the day of the shoot she appeared too thin.
"Sometimes when you cast a model, they look okay, but then when they turn up on the shoot day they might not have eaten for two or three days," Miss Drucker said.
"You're not in charge of their health.
"When she did arrive, there were plenty of clothes that we couldn't put on her because her bones stuck out too much. She looked beautiful in the face, but really thin and unwell."
She said the magazine was promoting health and wellbeing and therefore the model's look was at odds with its philosophy.
"We made her legs a little bit bigger, to make her look like she was a size 10 as opposed to a size 4," Miss Drucker said.
"It's not what we normally do and I would never want to mislead people."
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