Facebook post of husband unhappy with his wife's 'photoshopped' portraits goes viral
The anonymous husband's letter has been shared across the world around 180,000 times
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Your support makes all the difference.A photographer has shared a heartwarming email she received from a client’s husband who was unhappy about his wife being photoshopped in a portrait.
Photographer, Victoria Caroline Haltom from San Antonio, Texas shared the post on her company’s Facebook page.
She received the letter soon after she started her business, Victoria Caroline Boudoir, which specialises in ‘boudoir’ portraits of women.
Explaining the context of the letter, Ms Haltom said her client wanted an album of self-portraits to give to her husband for Christmas. The woman, in her mid-forties who was “a curvy, beautiful size 18”, requested for all “cellulite, stretch marks, fat and wrinkles” to be photoshopped.
After following her request, Ms Haltom then received an email from the unidentified woman’s husband. While thanking her for the photo album, he said they, in fact, made him upset.
Tonight I want to tell you ladies about a time I messed up really badly. It was back when I first started boudoir, and...
Posted by Victoria Caroline Boudoir on Monday, 12 October 2015
He wrote: “These pictures… while they are beautiful and you are clearly a very talented photographer… they are not my wife. You made every one of her ‘flaws’ disappear… and while I’m sure this is exactly what she asked you to do, it took away everything that makes up our life.”
He finished, thanking Ms Haltom: “Seeing these images made me realise that I honestly do not tell my wife enough how much I love her and adore her just as she is. She hears it so seldom, that she actually thought these photoshopped images are what I wanted and needed her to look like.”
Speaking to My San Antonio, Ms Haltom said she was not expecting her post to gather so much attention overnight and overall the post reportedly has 200,000 ‘likes’ and been shared around 180,000 times.
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