Redeem now - Twitter users are roasting Callista Gingrich for posting a heavily-edited selfie on Twitter.
- In the photo, Gingrich, who poses next to her husband, appears to have a suspiciously smooth forehead.
- Commenters are speculating that she overused the "blur" editing tool on FaceTune or a similar retouching app.
- Several Twitter users mocked the couple by posting their own exaggerated and retouched versions of the photo.
- Chrissy Teigen weighed in on Gingrich's editing skills, joking that the diplomat should have FaceTuned her husband as well.
- Teigen also shared her own retouched version of the couple's selfie.
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Callista Gingrich, a diplomat, author, and wife of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, is joining the ever-expanding club of public figures who have been ridiculed online for their less-than-seamless photo editing.
On Saturday, Gingrich took to Twitter and shared a selfie in which she posed next to her husband.
"@newtgingrich and I wish you a lovely weekend!" she captioned the photo.
—Callista Gingrich (@CallyGingrich) September 12, 2020Commenters noticed that the photo had been altered, enlarging it to reveal clear marks of a photo blurring, including distortion the goes into the hairline and a clear demarcation where natural shine and shadows on the forehead end bluntly.
—Kiki Murakami (@kikmurakami) September 12, 2020The blurring on the forehead appeared to come from a common photo editing tool like FaceTune or a similar app.
Most found Gingrich's obvious editing to be funny, considering her husband wasn't given the same treatment.
"Couldn't give Newt any FaceTune love???" one Twitter user quipped.
Twitter user @a_goddamned_guy poked fun at the heavy editing by offering their own retouched version of the photo — and asking Gingrich for a job.
—john l (@a_goddamned_guy) September 12, 2020Twitter user @nitecrawler_305 went in a slightly different direction, sharing a FaceTuned photo of Yoda, which racked up over 10,000 likes.
—chief vibes officer (@nitecrawler_305) September 12, 2020The post made its way into celebrity circles as well.
Chrissy also weighed in on the catastrophic and uneven editing by sharing her "improved" version of the photo, joking, "get u a girl who will Facetune u both."
—chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 13, 2020To date, Teigen's tweet has received nearly 120,000 likes.
This is not the first time that Twitter users have pointed out Gingrich's photo editing.
In May, TV writer Tyler Dinucci retweeted another heavily-edited photo that Gingrich posted to Twitter.
"I wish I loved anything as much s Callista Gingrich loves FaceTune," he quipped.
—Tyler Dinucci!! (@TylerDinucci) May 20, 2020Gingrich's experimentation with photo editing may have begun as early as 2018, when she posted a heavily-edited photo for her anniversary.
Happy Anniversary to my husband, Newt!❤️
The post, in which Gingrich and her husband appear to have perfectly smooth faces, sparked several comments questioning her photo editing methods.
"Stop facetuning ur pics girl," one commenter wrote.
Gingrich has not appeared to comment publicly on the discourse surrounding editing choices.
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