Keira Knightley recently posed topless in Interview Magazine as her own personal protest against photoshopping. Knightley told the Times she demanded the (not safe for work) photos be unedited so people could see what she really looked like.
“I’ve had my body manipulated so many different times for so many different reasons, whether it’s paparazzi photographers or for film posters,” Knightley said. “That [shoot] was one of the ones where I said: ‘OK, I’m fine doing the topless shot so long as you don’t make them any bigger or retouch.’ Because it does feel important to say it really doesn’t matter what shape you are.”
Knightley’s figure was controversially distorted on the poster for “King Arthur” in 2004: Her breasts were edited to look bigger than they are in real life. Though the studio bore the brunt of that scandal, the actress herself came under fire in 2006 when she and Scarlett Johansson posed nude with a fully clothed Tom Ford on the cover of Vanity Fair, in a picture that emphasised the gap the demands made of famous women and men in terms of playing up their sexuality.
But Knightley is taking a stand now. The Interview shoot captures Knightley’s real figure—including her true breast size.
