InStyle Blames It on the Lighting

Scandal fans rear up in reaction to magazine's March 2015 cover

unknownOn Wednesday night, InStyle proudly previewed their March 2015 cover featuring Kerry Washington. The star also separately shared the cover on Instagram.

On Thursday, the magazine leadership were in a slightly different place, feeling that they needed to respond to a flurry of social media criticism that the cover had been Photoshopped to make Washington look “whiter:”

We have heard from those who have spoken out about our newsstand cover photograph, concerned that Kerry’s skin tone was lightened.

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