Kim Kardashian: I was 'Photoshopped' to look 'way worse'

Kim Kardashian claims 'awful' pictures taken by the paparazzi during her recent trip to Mexico were 'Photoshopped' to be unflattering.

The 36-year-old reality star admitted she wasn't in her "best shape" and hadn't worked out for 12 weeks when the pictures were taken, the Daily Mail reports.

But she is convinced the candid images were "sharpened" and "Photoshopped" to make her look "way worse" than she really did.

Kim, who regularly uses flattering filters to digitally alter the pictures she shares on social media, could be seen with cellulite on her famous derriere and thighs in the paparazzi pictures.

"I saw these awful photos of myself when I was on a trip in Mexico and people were Photoshopping them and sharpening them," Kardashian said on The View.

"I definitely was not in my best shape. I hadn't worked out in about 12 weeks, I'd had two surgeries on my uterus. We documented that on the show.

"But I was already not feeling like myself and when people were like sharpening them and making them look way worse and then those were going around, I was like 'Ok, I'm going to get it together' and I started working out with this bodybuilder girl."

In April photos emerged of Kim enjoying some time off in Mexico, parading her large derriere in just a black thong and cropped T-shirt.

She defiantly strode about her luxury resort after complaining on Twitter that her friends were "fat-shaming" her over un-airbrushed pictures of her hourglass figure.

At the time she'd gloated about losing weight thanks to a sickly "flu" bug.

This article was first published on Daily Mail and is republished here with permission.