Kelly Clarkson SELF Cover Slim Down

Kelly Clarkson looks confident. (SELF Images)"]

Kelly Clarkson has been battling her weight for a while now, but in September's issue of SELF magazine, the American Idol winner appears to have dropped a good 40 lbs. However, that's not the case. SELF, who says they love Kelly's confidence and claims that she is a role model for women of all sizes, openly admits to photoshopping her. Now we're all for Kelly's confidence and think it's great that a woman with a fuller figure can take on the plastic, superficial world of Hollywood starlets, but when she looks like this and is on the cover of a magazine who blatantly photoshops her to look like this while saying she should be a role model for fuller-figured women, well, they are insulting the reader's intelligence. Do they really think we're that stupid?

"Yes, of course we do post-production corrections on our images," SELF editor in chief Lucy Danziger told Entertainment Tonight. "Kelly Clarkson exudes confidence, and is a great role model for women of all sizes and stages of their life. She works out and is strong and healthy, and our picture shows her confidence and beauty. She literally glows from within. That is the feeling we'd all want to have. We love this cover and we love Kelly Clarkson."

And Kelly doesn't seem to mind the changes.

"My happy weight changes," Clarkson says in SELF. "Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time. When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't. I'm fine!' I've never felt uncomfortable on the red carpet or anything."

Groan - whatever! If you're happy with your image you wouldn't allow them to completely alter the way you look. What message are you sending young girls who look up to you? It's okay to be fuller figured but lets change this photograph so I look skinnier? Big whateves, Kelly! Big Whateves.