Has Kelly Clarkson resorted to the airbrush? Singer appears markedly more chiselled on new single cover
Amongst the slender starlets of the pop world, Kelly Clarkson is a rare exception.
And as a fuller figured woman in showbusiness she is no stranger to controversy over the apparent digital manipulation of her pictures.
Now the new cover for the singer's single Don't Rush has been released, and it looks as if it has once more had a helping hand from the airbrush.
Photoshopped? An elfin faced American Idol Kelly Clarkson on the cover of her single Don't Rush from her soon-to-be-released Greatest Hits - Chapter 1 album
The image shows Kelly's jawline looking noticeably more chiseled and her cheekbones defined.
While it would be unusual to see a handout photo of a star that was not airbrushed, Kelly's appears to have been rather heavy handed.
Its a far cry from her appearance at London's Wembley Arena last week, when she was noticeably rounder faced.
Spot the difference: Kelly in concert last week, and on the front of her new single
The singer previously hit the headlines when she was digitally-slimmed on the cover of Self magazine.
While the editor admitted some digital retouching had been used, she claimed it was to make Kelly 'look her best'.
'Of course we do retouching,' Lucy Danziger wrote in a post on Self.com. 'Did we alter her appearance? Only to make her look her personal best.
The 30-year-old singer is a self-confessed 'history nerd' and during her latest UK tour she swapped her tour bus for a personal driver in order to see a number of historical sites around the country, including the place where the 2005 big screen adaptation of Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' novel was shot.
She added to the Daily Star newspaper: 'I had my sister with me and we went to Derbyshire to see where the version of 'Pride and Prejudice' featuring Keira Knightley was filmed. Y'all live in such a beautiful place.
'When I'm here there's so much to see as I'm a really big history nerd.
'All I've done for the past decade is see the tour bus so we thought we'd do something different.'
But why tho?