--- title: Pretty Little Liars Star troian bellisarioTalks photoshop GQ Photos description: ABC Family’s cult hit Pretty Little Liars attracts troves of viewers for plenty of reasons: an addictive, confusing and sometimes nonsensical plot, five pretty little... canonical: https://time.com/108874/pretty-little-liars-photoshop/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-22T15:11:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:20.955Z og:title: Pretty Little Liars Star Talks GQ Photoshop Controversy og:description: ABC Family’s cult hit Pretty Little Liars attracts troves of viewers for plenty of reasons: an addictive, confusing and sometimes nonsensical plot, five pretty little... og:url: https://time.com/108874/pretty-little-liars-photoshop/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte22feeae72ca3d54/6986907f13c79fabd519231e/0614-gq-mopl04-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2101 og:image:height: 1182 og:image:alt: 0614-GQ-MOPL04.04 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pretty Little Liars Star Talks GQ Photoshop Controversy twitter:description: ABC Family’s cult hit Pretty Little Liars attracts troves of viewers for plenty of reasons: an addictive, confusing and sometimes nonsensical plot, five pretty little... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte22feeae72ca3d54/6986907f13c79fabd519231e/0614-gq-mopl04-04.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Pretty Little Liars_ Star Talks GQ Photoshop Controversy > Sponsored content. 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The show’s main cast — Ashley Benson, Troian Bellisario, Shay Mitchell and Lucy Hale — command millions of followers on Twitter and Instgram and often draw attention to various real-world issues, particularly body image. Recently, Bellisario, whose character on the show struggles with an addiction to performance-enhancing drugs, took to Instagram to get real about a recent [_GQ_ photo shoot](http://www.gq.com/women/celebrities/201406/the-women-of-pretty-little-liars#slide=1) of the _Pretty Little Liars_ cast that blogs called out for being [overly touched up](http://www.thegloss.com/2014/05/20/beauty/pretty-little-liars-cast-gq-spread-photoshop/). “My hips and thighs are a part of me (even though they magically weren’t in some shots!” she wrote, posting untouched photos from the day of the shoot. Bellisario also made a point of acknowledging the necessity of Photoshop for glossy magazine photos, while still pointing out the double standard: “This industry seems to invest more in perfection than in flaw.” Bellisario and co-star Hale have both spoken about body image and eating disorder struggles while Benson, who’s also known for her racy role in _Spring Breakers,_ bashed an ABC Family poster for the show on her Instagram for being overly re-touched. “Way too much photoshop,” she wrote. “We all have flaws. No one looks like this. 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