Amid praises for her stunning beauty, aespa Winter's recently uploaded photos opened heated discussion among netizens and fans after they noticed THIS. Want to know what happened? Keep on reading for all the information.

aespa Winter Accused of 'Photoshopping' Body Following Recent Photos

On July 22, aespa appeared on KBS2's music program, "Music Bank," to promote the newly released song, "Girls."

Following the broadcast, aespa members, including Ningning, Winter, Giselle, and Karina, posted their photos on the group's official Instagram.

Immediately after uploading the photos, the members gained positive comments and hundreds of thousands like for their incredible visuals. Among them, Winter, the visual of the group particularly stood out, receiving about 700,000 likes in less than 15 hours.

While most of her supporters, especially MYs (fandom of aespa), admired her beauty and physique, some netizens raised their brows after finding out "awkward" details from the photo set.

(Photo : Winter (Instagram))

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In online communities, internet users accused Winter of photoshopping her photos. In particular, looking at the first and second photos, the allure of Winter will be the first thing you will notice, especially how the black beret suits the idol best.

But looking at the third photo, web users claimed that it was severely photoshopped as you will start to notice the distorted stairs near the idol's waist. Due to this, the netizens were convinced that the female star edited her physique to look slimmer but failed.

As soon as the photos became controversial among fans and internet users, there were divided opinions about Winter allegedly editing her photos.

Some criticized Winter and said:

"Wow, (curse) they should really stop taking pictures on the stairs. What a way to set themselves up."
"You can't trust anyone's photos."
"It's so obvious. Her body looks unnatural."

However, fans came into the idol's defense and mocked the haters, saying:

"Seriously, where's the controversy? Or do you want to make a controversy?
"I do it all the time. That's why filters exist."
"Who cares, all celebrities edit."
"Why would they bend the stairs (sarcasm)."

Furthermore, fans defended Winter by stating that it could not be the idol who did the "photoshopping" but could be SM's social media handler.

What are your thoughts on this issue?

aespa Tops K-pop Radar's US Weekly Trending Chart

Amid criticism and controversies, aespa, the group to which Winter belongs, continues to widen their popularity beyond Korea.

The same day Winter's photoshopping allegations broke out, the group proved their influence by topping K-pop Radar's weekly trending chart. This is a K-pop exclusive chart show broadcast throughout the United States for the first time in K-pop history.

On the chart, aespa, who released their second mini-album, "Girls," and the title track with the same name on July 8, won first place.

The music video for aespa's new song recorded 67.6 million views during the second week of K-pop radar July (July 8, 2022 - July 14, 2022) and added more than 48,000 followers on Spotify.

According to K-pop Radar, the average increase in Spotify followers by K-pop artists during the same period was confirmed to be about 2,300, proving aespa's hot popularity.

Instagram followers have also increased by 71,000, and Twitter followers have increased by 46,000, showing tremendous influence. It is a surprising rise compared to an increase of about 9,400 Instagram followers and 1,700 Twitter followers of K-pop artists during the same period.

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Written by Eunice Dawson