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Cindy Crawford speaks out about THAT leaked photo

Supermodel Cindy Crawford has admitted “maybe I think I look better than I do” as she opened up about the unretouched photo of her that was leaked online. The photo – which went viral earlier this year – showed the 49-year-old star in black lingerie with cellulite, stretch marks and sun damage on her stomach, thighs and decolletage. In a new interview with Elle Canada, Crawford has spoken about the picture, taken for a magazine shoot in 2013, for the first time, insisting it had been digitally altered to make her look worse.

Sometimes, the images that women see in magazine make them feel inferior – even though the intention is never to make anyone feel less.

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She said: “I know my body, and I know it’s not perfect, but maybe I have a false body image; maybe I think I look better than I do. I think that most women are hard on themselves.“ But the model said she did not speak out at the time of the leak because she “felt really manipulated and conflicted,” by the positive reaction to the picture.

(The photographer said) ‘Cindy, I’m going to send you the real one and it’s nothing like that. It’s clear that someone manipulated that image to make whatever was there worse.’ It was stolen and it was malicious.

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