Busted: Florida high school photoshops girlsâ chests in yearbook photos
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By Maria Cramer and Michael Levenson
May 24, 2021 â 10.21am
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New York: There had been rumours all day that the yearbook photos had been altered, said Riley OâKeefe, a ninth grader at Bartram Trail High School in St Johns County, Florida.
When she finally got her copy, OâKeefe, 15, opened the page to her photo and laughed in disbelief.
A black bar had been added to cover more of her chest, she said. Then OâKeefe thumbed through the rest of the yearbook. Dozens of other students â all girls â had similar edits, many of them clumsy alterations that covered more of their chests.
First-year students Riley O’Keefe and Zoe Iannone are among the minimum of 80 girls whose pictures were photoshopped to show less skin in the yearbook at Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns County, which is near Jacksonville, Florida.
“The initial reaction is to be surprised and shocked, and then as it goes on, you just feel gross and embarrassed and very objectified,” Zoe told TODAY.
The two girls were hardly alone in learning their pictures, which were edited to cover their chests, had been changed.
“I got very upset, and I was very uncomfortable that that s how they were looking at our photos,” Riley said.