School EDITS ball photo to remove teen’s cleavage

A young woman has questioned why her school formal photo was edited to remove an image of her in a plunging dress.

Olivia Aloisi graduated from Nundah’s Mary MacKillop College in North Brisbane last year and says she was surprised to find a photo of her in the schoolyear book looked noticeably different.

“We were looking at the images in class and one of the girls came up to me and said ‘Liv, do you see something different in these two photos?” Ms Aloisi told the Courier Mail.

“Basically they had photoshopped my cleavage so there was a normal photo and then a second photo where my boobs had been pushed together.”

The school made headlines earlier this week for requiring formal dresses be approved and prohibiting thigh split dresses or plunging necklines for being too risqué.

Ms Aloisi said she approached the vice principal to ask why her image was photoshopped and says she was told the “low plunge” dress she was wearing was not appropriate for marketing material.

She says she was also told she should have consulted the school prior to her formal as the dress would not have been approved.

“The principal and vice principal changed in year 11 so by the time formal was only a couple of weeks away we had just been told about the formal booklet – it was very much based on how a girl looked in a dress,” Ms Aloisi said.

Ms Aloisi also spoke to local radio station B105 and said she should have been consulted before the school released the edited and unedited versions of the photo.

“I remember saying to the vice principal ‘you’re lucky I saw that on a good day’ because if I was not doing well or had problems with my body that could have been a full meltdown,” she said.

“My friend asked the company who took the photos if they could photoshop her bra out but I was the only one who got photoshopped in the group setting and was unaware about it until the pictures came out.”