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Was Keshia Knight Pulliam a victim of paparazzi photoshopping?

Last night, she appeared on the celebrity diving competition show, Splash, and her body definitely looked more toned and athletic than it did in a few unflattering photos that circulated the Internet just a week ago. During a visit to The Wendy Williams Show yesterday, Keshia put the paparazzi to shame, while saying that she is pretty sure somebody was having a little photoshop fun doctoring the pictures.

During her chat with Wendy, she also revealed that she joined the diving competition to be an inspiration to young girls while proving that black girls do swim and we’re not afraid of messing up our hair.

On the unflattering photos

As a woman, no matter what, I was mortified. I had that moment where you like, fall out in your closet. I realized that you can either be defeated by it or inspired by it and at the end of the day, I’m not the first or the last who’s going to have a picture taken that’s unflattering of them.

Not only was it the angle, I feel like they may have done something…I’m not going to say, ’cause I wasn’t there, but it was a little extra. I had that moment, you know how we do, I was straight naked out of the shower, looked in the mirror, posed. I was like, I don’t look like that, I’m good.

On how she got involved in Splash

The opportunity was presented to me and of course at first my team was like, ‘Oh, absolutely not,’ but I was like you know, I really love swimming. And then I did my research, I’m such a Google girl, I looked and I realized that there were absolutely no African American who had competed or medaled in diving in the Olympics or in any high level. You know I have my nonprofit, it’s called Kamp Kizzy. It’s all about girls, inspiration, dream big, think big, accomplish big, and I was like you know what this is the perfect opportunity to inspire others because at the end of the day what I’ve learned in working with girls, they don’t know to dream it or to strive to be it if they don’t know it exists.