Lebo Mashile demanded an apology from the True Love editor for being photoshopped to look slimmer on their November cover.

We've never seen anything like this! After seeing her cover of the November issue of True Love, poet, writer and author Lebo Mashile complained to the editor that she looked too slim.

Rather than cover up the issue, True Love editor, Dora Sithole apologised publicly in the January issue of the magazine, writing:

"True Love would like to unreservedly apologise to our resident columnist one of Mansi's leading literary lights, Lebogang Mashile, for the manner in which we handled her cover image for our November 2009 edition. The cover image was retouched and made Lebo look slimmer than she actually is – something which she immediately brought to our attention…"

After commenting that not only stick-thin models are beautiful, the editor continues:  "It was never our editorial intention to slim down Lebo so drastically as we always ensure that we promote women of all shapes on our cover, hence the choice of Lebo as our cover star in the first place."

If you were on a national magazine cover, would you want to be photoshopped to look skinnier, prettier or less wrinkled?
  By: Kele Scheppers