Kate Middleton gets the Photoshop treatment on magazine cover

Pregnancy must really be agreeing with the Duchess of Cambridge.

The 33-year-old royal graced the cover of the latest issue of Australia’s Woman’s Day looking just a little too radiant.

The magazine used a photo of Kate from last week’s appearance at the Kensington Leisure Centre in London. When compared side by side, the Woman’s Day photo seems to be quite different: the Duchess’s lipstick is brighter, teeth whiter, cheeks pinker, eyes bluer – and her earrings are the sparkliest thing we’ve ever seen.

While we assume the cover was digitally altered to make Prince George’s mom look brighter and more radiant, the enhancements end up making her look too severe and older than she actually is.

This isn’t the first time Princess Kate has been the victim of Photoshop. In 2011, Grazia infamously slimmed down the Duchess’s already-thin figure for a royal wedding-themed cover, claiming that it was an “inadvertent result” of removing Prince William so Kate could be featured alone. Less than a year later, the Duchess was unknowingly the cover star of the South African edition of Marie Claire, who used her head and hands and then created the rest with Photoshop.

However, Marie Claire South Africa defended their choice to feature the manipulated image, saying the cover was “a hyper-real illustration of Kate, meant to be a fan art tribute to fashion’s new royal icon.”

And Kate isn’t the only royal to get the Photoshop treatment – last year, a handful of magazines, including Us Weekly and OK! were accused of digitally altering photos of Prince George to make his eyes greener and cheeks rosier.

We like our royals just the way they are, thank you very much!

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