Kelly Clarkson was photoshopped for the September Self cover. While we always thought Kelly was an interesting choice for the health and fitness magazine — she isn’t exactly in shape — it leaked onto the Internet that Clarkson was photoshopped pretty heavily for the cover.

Editor in chief Lucy Danzig, however, doesn’t think Photoshopping is such a huge deal. The editor took to her Self magazine blog yesterday to blast the Internet. She wrote:

“Did we alter her appearance? Only to make her look her personal best…But in the sense that Kelly is the picture of confidence, and she truly is, then I think this photo is the truest we have ever put out there on the newsstand.”

The entertainment editor than responded with:

“Why do we get bent out of shape when a magazine alters an image to portray a celebrity in their best light? No one wants to see a giant picture of some star’s cellulite on the cover of a monthly mag.”

Uh-oh. Did they just say Kelly has cellulite?!

What do you think? Should magazine not airbrush their covers?

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