Lili Reinhart And Camila Mendes Have A Powerful Message After Magazine’s Photoshop Fail

As soon as Lili Reinhart and Camila Mendes visualize something, they mention something. And on International Women's Day (March 8), the Riverdale stars have a message for Cosmopolitan Philippines, soon following the magazine published images of the two girls with significantly slimmed-down waistlines.


The pictures were originally used in a U.S. Cosmopolitan cover story, with their (perfect-as-they-are) waists totally in tact and accompanied by an interview with the two girls, in which Mendes declared, "If I might go back to before I started Riverdale, I would tell myself to speak up Whenever I felt like something wasn't right. To use my voice and know that it's worth hearing."


It sounds like they both took that message to heart. In a Instagram Story, Mendes wrote that she and Reinhart "feel disrespected and disturbed by the sight of our photoshopped bodies" in the adjusted images, and they want it known that "those bodies are not ours; they have been distorted from their organic aesthetics. We prefer to be able to see our bodies the way they actually are. I'm not interested in having a slimmer waist, I'm more than satisfied with the one that I already have."


Mendes then directed her fans to check out Reinhart's Instagram Story, adding that the pictures originally published in the U.S. Cosmopolitan "included our organic silhouettes, and we're relieved that they didn't visualize our waistlines as something that needed tweaking."


Here are Reinhart's powerful, inspiring words, unedited:

Today is International Women's Day. Over the last year, we've seen a unprecedented movement for women's rights, and one thing is clear: our time is currently. We are phenomenal, and we'll make the world a higher end place for all women.



But we still have a long way to go. Our fight isn't over. For example:

Lili Reinhart/Instagram

Lili Reinhart/Instagram

Lili Reinhart/Instagram

Lili Reinhart/Instagram

Camila and I have worked incredibly hard to feel confident in the bodies that we have. It's a daily battle, some days. And to be able to see our bodies become so distorted in an editing process is a brilliant example of the obstacles we have nevertheless to overcome.



So we cannot stop fighting. Our battle has only just begun. We are fucking powerful, pretty and strong... We aren't going to hide in back of photoshop to conform to aesthetics standards.



That's why I'm calling out @cosmopolitan_philippines. It's sad that you felt our bodies needed to be slimmed down. Although Camila and I are fucking cute. As is. So you can't "fix" us. So, like every other day, women....Go kick some ass. You are being heard. You are strong and sensational.



And I would like to thank the OG @cosmopolitan for keeping our waists as they are in their magazines. Also would like to provoke celebrities and public figures to stop photoshopping their waists/noses/arms/legs in their pictures. It's only encouraging a unrealistic body image. It's adding to the problem.

Neither actress has shied away from discussing her struggles in the past, with Reinhart vocal about her battle with depression and Mendes beginning up about her history with consuming food disorders. It doesn't come as a surprise, then, that Reinhart would speak up for herself and her friend.