The beauty queen is verifying claims that her face was whitened on the cover of a fashion glossy to meet Caucasian standards

Subhash K Jha (MUMBAI MIRROR; December 27, 2010)

The racial controversy surrounding Ash’s face on the cover of a leading fashion magazine has just gotten darker.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is apparently furious with the bleaching botch-up that the fashion bible carried on her face. Not one to show emotions easily, the former Miss World is visibly upset when told about this possible doctoring. Says a source close to her, “Aishwarya’s first reaction was disbelief.

She believed that these things don’t happen anymore. Not in this day and age when women are recognized for their merit, and not for the colour of their skin. She is currently verifying this skin-whitening allegation. If there is any proof of this, she might even take action.”

Ash has been caught up with her father being ill. As a result, she has not had the time to ascertain the veracity of this race row.

Apparently the doctoring was noticed by fans and not the media. Avid fashion victims grabbed copies of this month’s issue of the magazine, only to notice that the beauty pageant was not looking right; she was looking white. Enraged, they began posting livid messages online.

They felt that her image had been doctored by the magazine to appease Caucasian standards of beauty. It might be recalled that in September this year, the US edition of the same magazine featured More >