Abbie Chatfield reveals brutal reason she stopped editing photos

The reality star turned influencer has revealed the real reason she no longer edits any pictures she posts on Instagram.

Abbie Chatfield has opened up about the damaging reason she no longer edits her photos.

During a segment on her new radio show Hot Nights With Abbie on Friday, Abbie revealed how she would often Photoshop her photos before posting them to Instagram prior to becoming famous.

While Abbie only had around 1000 followers and wasn’t yet working as an influencer, the response she received on the edited photos was “messing with my head”.

“My edited photos would get like double the likes,” she said. “So I’d feel like the way that I saw myself (was that) I was only good looking with edited photos.”

Abbie quit editing her photos in 2018 prior to appearing on reality TV saying she had “stopped for myself, it wasn’t any political stance”.

Abbie Chatfield hasn’t photoshopped her Instagram posts since 2018. Picture: Instagram/Abbie Chatfield.

She also called on celebrities like the Kardashians to stop photoshopping, with Kim recently forced to delete an Instagram post of her in a bikini after a very obvious editing fail was spotted by fans.

“When these things happen it’s, ‘haha funny’, but can we like stop editing our photos?” Abbie said.

Last month Abbie was praised by her followers for including a very relatable in a bikini photo she posted to Instagram.

Abbie was among a host of models and influencers to attend Monday Swimwear’s Yacht Day in December and posted a photo of herself in one of the brand’s bikinis to social media.

Abbie’s followers were quick to saw how good she looked in the photo, but it was a “real” detail she raised in the caption that got the most praise. “Category is: Shaving rash,” she wrote, also adding in the comments section: “PSA: the new trend is shaving rash!!”

Last month she was praised for sharing this photo of herself with a rash on her bikini line. Picture: Instagram/Abbie Chatfield.

“Finally I’m on trend with something,” one person joked in response.

“It’s nice to see some normality in a photo,” another commented.

Abbie also hit out at claims her photos taken for her new swimwear collaboration with RAQ had been “heavily edited”.

The reality star turned influencer has joined forces with the swimwear label to launch two swimsuits specifically designed for women with bigger busts.

Abbie shared a photo from the shoot on her TikTok, which was designed to look like a retro magazine cover.

But one viewer claimed the photo Abbie shared was too edited and from a magazine, prompting the influencer to hit back in a follow-up video.

Abbie also shut down claims this image of her had been “heavily edited”. Picture: Instagram/Abbie Chatfield.

“This isn’t a magazine photo, this is an Instagram post done for my collab with RAQ,” Abbie began.

“It’s actually very, very minimally ‘airbrushed’. It’s actually only edited in colour tones and background, obviously. I wasn’t at a 1980s beach. It’s probably drawn.

“It’s part of a series of these promo shoots for my RAQ collab, a bikini brand I designed these bikinis with,” she continued.

“You can see it is very minimally edited, you can see here the ripples of my hips, on my side. It has just been edited into a sunset.”

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