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Nicki Minaj Calls Out ESPN Magazine for Retouching Her Cover—See the Before and After Pics!

Check out the rapper's photos

By Brett Malec Jan 23, 2014 11:35 PMTags
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UPDATE: ESPN's Editor in Chief, Chad Millman, responded, telling E! News in a statement, "While we occasionally make minor visual and cosmetic adjustments to cover images, we do not significantly change a person's unique physical characteristics. The folks on our covers are too proud of their bodies to stand for that. The forehead Ms. Minaj walked in with is the one on the cover and we're thrilled she participated."

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Nicki Minaj is calling out ESPN magazine, alleging that the sports publication retouched her image on her recent Music Issue cover with Kobe Bryant.

Earlier today, the 31-year-old blond beauty took to her Instagram to share a photo of the cover, writing, "When retouching goes wrong."

Minaj then followed up by posted several before-retouching shots from the set of the recent photo shoot. She captioned one, "I love my personal unretouched photos where my forehead doesn't mysteriously grow in length."

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Though it's hard to tell if and what ESPN retouched for the final cover image, one thing is for sure: Minaj looks gorgeous while posing next to Bryant in a very high-fashion ensemble.

The former American Idol judge also posted some behind-the-scenes photos from the magazine shoot. In one, she looks over some images on a computer screen and in another, she checks out her photo shoot outfit with a stylist.

In a final photo, Minaj and Bryant flash smiles while sitting in their hair and makeup chairs. "So honored to be a part of this with Kobe. Had a blast," she wrote with the candid shot.