Karol G attacks GQ Mexico magazine for editing his cover photo: “My face doesn’t look like that”

( ) – Karol G expressed his disappointment and disagreement this Thursday after his first cover images were published in GQ magazine, Mexico edition.

The Colombian singer criticized what she said were excessive edits to the photographs.

“My face doesn’t look like that, my body doesn’t look like that, and I feel very happy and comfortable with how I look naturally.” Karol G wrote in an Instagram post.

The artist, originally from Medellín, said that she communicated to GQ her discomfort regarding the editions, without achieving a change before publication.

“I appreciate the opportunity magazine because I was very happy when they confirmed that I would be there, but despite making clear my disagreement with the number of edits they made to the photo, they did nothing about it,” said the singer.

The GQ cover that bothered Karol G

Karol G published his complaint in a small carousel of two photos on Instagram. The first image shows her natural and without makeup, the artist’s publicist confirmed to .

The second image is the cover of GQ in which the thinnest singer is observed with very outstanding cheekbones.

Karol G said on Instagram that to look good you do not need “all those changes” and that this image so far from reality can have repercussions among women and the public.

“I understand the repercussions that this can have, but beyond feeling that it is disrespectful to me, it is women who wake up every day looking to feel comfortable with ourselves despite society’s stereotypes,” she said. singer.

contacted GQ Mexico in search of comments regarding this cover, but has not yet received a response.

A representative for Karol G assured via email that the magazine was contacted several times about the cover.

GQ also does not have the cover of this issue on their social media profiles. However, on the magazine’s website it is available the report about the artist.

Reactions to the cover

In a magazine post on instagram, With the cover of the designer Yohji Yamamoto, GQ Mexico received comments from users who mentioned the photograph of Karol G.

One user said that the singer deserves an apology while another questioned whether the Japanese designer was edited or if they “did him skinny. Why not him?” Says the comment.

The photographs within the report also show a different Karol G than what her fans are used to seeing on her social media profiles.

Karol G’s statement on the social network received almost four million likes and 64,000 comments in a few hours. Among them is that of the singer Sofía Reyes, who applauded the words of the Colombian saying “beautiful message.”

For her part, Kany García said that “unreal in photo 2. Beautiful and wonderful in 1. The world is changing, to be updated once and for all based on our own positions.”

Karol G and self love

This is not the first time that Karol G takes her social networks or speaks in interviews to talk about the criticism she receives about her physical appearance.

A month ago, the interpreter explained in the program El Hormiguero, from the Antena 3 chainwhy he published unedited photographs on his networks.

“For a long time I also did retouching to the photos so that they would look perfect, so that they would look incredible until one day on a beach they took a photo, I didn’t look like I did in the photos on my Instagram and I said it doesn’t have meaning,” said the singer.

“This is who I am. For a while I’m super fitother times I’m not so fit and that is normal for many reasons. I saw in a certain way how people made me bullying, because in reality they have criticized a lot my physique, how I see myself, how I dress, how I express myself, how I speak. For a long time it affected me so much to the point that I understood that it didn’t have to affect me. I try to be very open on social networks (saying) I am like you… look at my chubby ones, look at my little arms, I don’t have them like I suddenly had them before, look at my tummy (I don’t have it) as I would like suddenly ”, Added Carol G.

Also, at the beginning of the year he responded in his stories from Instagram to comments about her body on the promotional photos of his single with Romeo Santos, “X if we return”. The response was to a comment in which he says that his belly is visible in the photographs.

The Colombian said “the tummy was because of the hot dogs that someone gave me these days in a show… although it has been a long time since I was so judicious with exercise so I can say that at another time when not, she will be able to look even bigger”.

Karol G also said that “all bodies are different… they are all beautiful just the way they are.”