Three hands and three legs?

Magazine’s ‘photoshop’ error gives Witherspoon, Winfrey extra limbs

When Vanity Fair unveiled the cover for its highly anticipated, annual Hollywood issue on Thursday, many took note of the fact that Reese Witherspoon appeared to have three legs due to what some called a ‘Photoshop error’. But that wasn’t the only digital alteration the cover underwent.

The cover includes an array of celebrities ranging from Oprah Winfrey to Michael B. Jordan to Tom Hanks. ‘12 Extraordinary Stars, One Momentous Year’, reads the caption. It was originally set to feature 13 celebrities, but at the last minute, the magazine chose to digitally remove actor James Franco from the spread because of the misconduct allegations against him.

While Vanity Fair claimed that Witherspoon’s supposed third leg was just “the lining of her dress”, others spotted a further apparent mistake in a separate photo, which appeared to depict Winfrey with three hands. That photo has since been removed from the Vanity Fair website. After Twitter users poked fun of the phenomenon, Witherspoon decided to play along. “Well, I guess everybody knows now,” she tweeted. “I have 3 legs. I hope you can still accept me for who I am.” Winfrey too played along. “I accept your 3d leg. As I know you accept my 3d hand,” she tweeted, acknowledging what appeared to be a third hand belonging to her in a separate photo in the Vanity Fair package.