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10 Eye-Opening Images Of Celebs Before And After Photoshop

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Ten side-by-side photos are making the case that almost nothing you see on a magazine cover is real.

The retouching industry doesn’t like being caught, but leaked and self-released before-and-after shots keep doing exactly that. TheThings Celebrity’s April 26, 2017 video, “10 Eye-Opening Images Of Celebs Before And After Photoshop,” lines up ten pairs of images that show what happens between the camera shutter and the printed page. The gap, in some cases, isn’t subtle — it’s a body that no longer exists.

• Britney Spears personally authorized the release of her un-airbrushed 2010 Candie’s campaign photos next to the retouched versions, letting fans compare the two directly.
• Model Filippa Hamilton went public after Ralph Lauren narrowed her waist and hips in a print ad to proportions her own body couldn’t physically produce.
• The video runs through ten separate reveals — including Justin Bieber, Madonna, Miranda Kerr, Beyoncé, George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Alba, Katy Perry and Megan Fox — each showing a visibly different person once the editing is stripped away.

The Ten Reveals Inside the Video

The countdown moves fast and doesn’t spare anyone. Miranda Kerr’s unretouched shot shows a natural, uneven glow before editors smooth it into something closer to porcelain. Justin Bieber’s shirtless before-photo has tattoos, a few blemishes and a visible happy trail; in the after-photo, the blemishes vanish and the tattoos are somehow sharper and more defined than in real life.

Madonna’s transformation is the most dramatic on age alone — the first photo shows normal wrinkles and dull skin tone, while the second looks decades younger, almost synthetic. Britney Spears appears taller and thinner in her retouched shot, her stomach evened out and any thigh definition erased entirely, a full change in body composition rather than a simple skin cleanup.

Megan Fox’s pair is mostly about lighting sleight-of-hand: an unflattering setup in the first photo gets replaced by a softer rig in the second that erases wrinkles that were barely visible to begin with. Beyoncé’s unretouched image shows thighs that touch, like most human beings — the retouched version thins her legs, removes any trace of cellulite and smooths her skin into an unnatural texture.

George Clooney’s laugh lines disappear entirely in his after-shot, knocking years off his appearance. Penelope Cruz’s face is reshaped around the eyes, lips and cheeks to the point of looking like a different woman. Jessica Alba’s natural, makeup-free photo gets fully overhauled feature by feature, and Katy Perry’s bright, natural skin tone in her first photo is dulled and flattened in the second, stripped of texture that was never actually a flaw.

Britney Spears and Filippa Hamilton Went Public

Two of the cases in this genre of reveal aren’t leaks at all — they’re the subjects themselves blowing the whistle. Britney Spears’s team released the raw 2010 Candie’s shoot alongside the polished ad specifically so the retouching would be visible, an unusually transparent move for a campaign built to sell a product on flawlessness.

Filippa Hamilton’s case with Ralph Lauren went further because she spoke up after seeing the finished ad, not before. The brand had shrunk her waist and hips to a scale that didn’t match her actual frame, and Hamilton’s public reaction turned a routine print ad into a case study used in nearly every Photoshop exposé since.

Beyoncé’s unretouched image appears stunning — like a typical human with thighs that touch.

The Industry’s Long History With the Retouching Brush

The techniques repeat across every case: waist cinching, thigh trimming, skin smoothing, wrinkle removal and complexion lightening. Keira Knightley’s digitally augmented figure on the King Arthur movie poster and Faith Hill’s unretouched Redbook shoot — which revealed extensive arm slimming and line removal once the raw images surfaced — both show the same playbook applied to different mediums, film promotion and magazine covers alike.

Jennifer Lawrence has been cited in similar comparisons, and Justin Bieber’s Calvin Klein shoot adds a menswear example to a conversation usually centered on women. The throughline across all of it, from Madonna’s cover shots to Megan Fox’s widely scrutinized lighting setups, is that the “flawless” version was manufactured after the fact, not captured in camera.

Katy Perry’s entry fits the same pattern that’s followed her through other public scrutiny over image control — the natural photo looks like a person, the retouched one looks like a product.

What makes this particular compilation land is the pairing itself — nobody has to take anyone’s word for the manipulation when the unedited shot is sitting right next to the finished ad. Ten photos, ten side-by-sides, and the same result every time: the person in the “after” picture doesn’t exist anywhere except in the file that got sent to print.