Nelly Furtado recently revealed how airbrushing was used to edit her natural skin tone and body shape in magazines during the early stage of her career. Furtado, who rose to fame in the 2000s with hit songs like “Maneater” and “I’m Like a Bird,

Nelly Furtado has claimed magazine editors used to her "lighten her skin" in her photoshoots in the early 2000s. The Maneater singer, who has Portuguese parents, claimed to People that her photos were subjected to "a lot of airbrushing" at the start of her career and editors would change the colour of her skin and the position of her hips.