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  • Ivanka Trump accused of photoshopping her photos in Taj Mahal
  • Ivanka Trump altered pictures to make waist appear smaller
  • Ivanka Trump's attendance in the India trip questioned

Ivanka Trump accused of photoshopping her photo in Taj Mahal to make her waist appear smaller.

President Donald Trump, Melania Trump and the other delegates have already concluded their two-day state visit in India. However, upon their return to the U.S., the first daughter is facing intense backlash and has been accused of photoshopping her photo during their trip in the country.

Ivanka shared snaps of her posing outside Taj Mahal. However, several noticed some inconsistencies in the pictures, prompting them to wonder if the first daughter edited some shots.

“Could this possibly be some sloppy photoshopping? The irregularity in definition led some of the Slate staff to suspect that someone had inserted or enlarged the gap in Ivanka’s picture, or otherwise messed around with the photo in some way, a thing many people do on Instagram to make themselves look thinner,” Aaron Mak wrote on Slate.

“But would Ivanka really go through such trouble for a single photo in a series that otherwise doesn’t seem to exhibit any telltale signs of photoshopping?”

Mak reached out to experts from Remove.bg which specializes in removing backgrounds from photos and according to them the discrepancy was due to the background-classification error.

“We have seen this kind of artifact in images generated by mobile app background classifiers in the past,” co-founder Ben Groessing responded to him via email.

Mak looked for other photos taken at the same spot but didn’t see any other picture baring the same issue. He also wondered why Ivana had to blur the famous Taj Mahal.

Meanwhile, a number of Twitter users reacted to Ivanka’s picture and they were convinced that Trump’s daughter digitally altered it to make her waist look slimmer.

“Hunter doesn’t photoshop his photos like Ivanka does, that makes her body look wonky and unnatural. She made her waist smaller. Check out the water between her waist and arm, it is a different colour and texture than the water elsewhere in the background,“ @DonStockman wrote on Twitter.

“Does he have a better Photoshop editor? Either blur the full pool background or sort out Ivanka’s waist/arm gap ... or we might think her waist has been modified,” @samisthat1 added.

In related news, many criticized Ivanka’s attendance in the state visit. According to them, her presence was not necessary.

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White House Senior Adviser Ivanka Trump at an event in which her father President Donald Trump unveiled proposals for lowering child-care costs. Photo by Michael Vadon/Flickr