- The 30-year-old appeared in a family photo wearing a tight black dress while celebrating the soccer superstar’s 39th birthday last week.
- But when the photo was picked up by the Hamshahri newspaper, it was altered.
Model Georgina Rodríguez’s curvy rear has been censored by a sanctimonious Iranian regime newspaper.
The 30-year-old, who is in a relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo, appeared in a family photo to celebrate the Portuguese football superstar’s 39th birthday.
Rodriguez is seen wearing a figure-hugging black dress as she hugs Ronaldo’s eldest son, Cristiano Ronaldo Jr, as the family of six crowds around a birthday cake.
The photo, posted to Ronaldo’s 621 million followers on Instagram, was quickly spread by media outlets around the world, including the Hamshahri newspaper.
However, instead of printing the original, the Tehran publication shamelessly edited the snapshot so that Rodriguez’s rounded buttocks were nowhere to be seen.
EARLIER: Georgina Rodriguez, who is in a relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo, appeared in a family photo (pictured) to celebrate the soccer superstar’s 39th birthday last week.
AFTER: The photo, posted to Ronaldo’s 621 million Instagram followers, was quickly spread by media outlets around the world, including the Hamshahri newspaper. However, instead of printing the original image, the Tehran publication shamelessly edited the snapshot so that Rodriguez’s rounded buttocks were nowhere to be seen.
It appears that Hamshahri attempted a Photoshop job in which the Spaniard’s butt appears to have been squashed from her waist to her lower thigh.
Speaking to The Sun, a source said Rodriguez would be “very upset” with the publication’s digital alteration of the photo taken last week.
“She works hard for her body and is very proud of her curves,” they said. ‘It just shows that the view of women in some parts of the world is distorted. It’s just the background.
Rodríguez, who has 57 million followers on Instagram, has regularly shown off her curvaceous figure in the past.
However, after Ronaldo’s move to Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr football team, she took a more conservative approach by posting on social media in accordance with the Muslim country’s stricter dress codes.
Like Saudi Arabia, Iran also has strict laws governing what women can and cannot wear dictated by the regime in Tehran.
Women in the countryside have to wear veils and loose clothing that covers everything except their hands and face.
If they violate these rules, women can face up to 10 years in prison.
These draconian laws translate into how women are portrayed in the media, and it appears that the rules meant that the regime could not tolerate Rodríguez’s curves appearing in the main national newspaper.
The manipulation of the photograph was discovered by several people on social networks.
British-Iranian actor Omid Djalili, an outspoken critic of the Tehran regime, said: “Showing so little respect for women by publicly disfiguring them speaks volumes.”
Belgian MP Darya Safai wrote: “This is exactly how sick Islamists look at women.”
So far, it appears that Rodriguez has yet to comment on the photo, which was posted on February 6.
Alongside the image, Ronaldo wrote: “Grateful to spend my 39th birthday in the best way possible: with my family and back on the training pitch.
Another image showed Ronaldo with a large bouquet of flowers he had received.
Ronaldo had another reason to celebrate as he returned to the training ground on his birthday after recovering from a calf injury.
“Thank you all for the warm messages.”
In addition to Rodriguez and Ronaldo Jr, the photo also showed three of Ronaldo’s youngest children, two of whom appeared to be looking at birthday cakes placed on a glass table in the foreground of the snap.
Ronaldo also showed off a large bouquet of flowers that he was given.
His birthday came as the superstar marked the occasion with a return to training after recovering from a calf injury.