Christie Brinkley Says Photoshopping Melissa McCarthy 'Unnecessary'

Melissa McCarthy fans were outraged earlier this month after a U.K. movie poster for her upcoming comedy "The Heat" showed the actress' face and neck had been heavily Photoshopped to look slimmer, and now supermodel Christie Brinkley is speaking out about the digitally altered photo.

McCarthy, who has faced criticism about her weight before, appears practically disfigured in the U.K. version of the movie poster, something Brinkley said is totally unnecessary.

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"I've been Photoshopped before," Brinkley told Entertainment Tonight. "I think it's kind of weird to do that with actors because obviously you can't Photoshop a movie and you're going to be seeing the actors as they are in the movie; you get to know actors and you just love them the way they are… we all love Melissa McCarthy just the way she is.

New poster for Paul Feig's #TheHeat starring Sandra Bullock & Melissa McCarthy! Bad photoshop anyone? pic.twitter.com/DoRER8EHtB

— The Hollywood News (@thncom) June 6, 2013

"Everything gives the message [that] it's not okay to be old, it's not okay to be fat, it's not okay to have any imperfections," she continued. "I wish that there was some way we could change that."

Twitters users were outraged that McCarthy's appearance was so drastically edited.

Melissa McCarthy is the victim of bad Photoshopping in 'The Heat' poster, looking like a completely different person! pic.twitter.com/zSMno3QGvo

— HOLLYWIRE (@HOLLYWIRE) June 12, 2013

What's been done to Melissa McCarthy's face in this #TheHeat poster is wrong on so many levels. http://t.co/O7XDCCclxx

— The Mary Sue (@TheMarySue) June 10, 2013

Terrible --> Melissa McCarthy Victim Of Worst Ever Photoshop Job On 'The Heat' Poster http://t.co/v1TyWXfBn3

— Keith Seward (@KeithSeward) June 17, 2013

There's definitely not enough outrage over what happened to Melissa McCarthy's face in THE HEAT poster. http://t.co/xB4XSuFccN

— Poster Collective (@PosterPeople) June 13, 2013

This isn’t the first time McCarthy has faced criticism about her weight. In a February New York Observer review of her movie "Identity Thief," film critic Rex Reed described the actress as "tractor-sized" and called her a "female hippo."

McCarthy responded to the comments just last week.

"I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate," she told the New York Times. "I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs."

"The Heat" hits theaters June 28.

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