A Victorian MP has slammed a “photoshopped” image of her used by Nine News, that she says made her outfit more “revealing” and “enlarged” her breasts.
The image of Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell aired during Monday night’s Nine News Melbourne bulletin as part of a story about duck hunting.
After the story aired, Purcell took to social media to say the image used of her was different to the original photo.
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“I endured a lot yesterday. But having my body and outfit photoshopped by a media outlet was not on my bingo card,” she wrote.
“Note the enlarged boobs and outfit to be made more revealing.
“Can’t imagine this happening to a male MP. What gives?”
In a second tweet, Purcell pointed out her stomach has been tattooed since 2020 and the photoshopped image did not show any tattoos, despite her outfit being changed to show her midriff.
On Tuesday, a statement was issued from Nine News Melbourne news director Hugh Nailon apologising for the “graphic error”.
“Our graphics department sourced an online image of Georgie to use in our story on duck hunting,” he said.
“As is common practice, the image was resized to fit our specs. During that process, the automation by Photoshop created an image that was not consistent with the original.
“This did not meet the high editorial standards we have and for that we apologise to Ms Purcell unreservedly.”