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"  The cast of Pretty Little Liars feature in a new photoshoot in GQ magazine&amp;#039;s June issue, and they&amp;#039;re having all sorts of hijinks in/around a swimming pool somewhere. There are inflatable pool toys, water pistols, colorful cocktails, and the requisite hot, shirtless model for the girls to play with. Ashley Benson and Shay Mitchell shared a number of photos from the shoot on their Instagram pages:          Tug of war with @itsashbenzo ... #buttahbenzo @gq Magazine A photo posted by Shay Mitchell (@shaym) on May 20, 2014 at 6:00pm PDT               Buttahbenzo ended up in the pool #gq A photo posted by Ashley Benson (@itsashbenzo) on May 20, 2014 at 12:28pm PDT      Criticism over the retouching \u2014 some of which appears to be of slightly dubious quality\u2014 quickly followed, with the editorial labeled a &amp;quot;Photoshop hack job&amp;quot; in one instance (via The Gloss). Three of the four actresses featured have spoken publically about their struggles with body confidence and eating disorders: Lucy Hale in the interview accompanying her September 2012 Cosmopolitan cover, Troian Bellisario to Seventeen, and Shay Mitchell to Self. And Ashley Benson famously criticized Pretty Little Liars&amp;#039;s own promo posters for featuring &amp;quot;way too much&amp;quot; Photoshop last year. This time, though, it&amp;#039;s Bellisario speaking out (again). She offered an explanation with a message posted on her own Instagram page:  &amp;quot;So by now you have seen many a shot from GQ and many people have said that we were photoshopped... OF COURSE WE WERE! That&amp;#039;s a very specific type of photo shoot. And looking very blown out and perfected was obviously what they were looking for. Great. Cool. As long as we acknowledge how it was achieved so we know it&amp;#039;s not real... I&amp;#039;m not mad at how these pictures turned out, the girls and I had an absolute blast. More fun than we&amp;#039;ve had on a photoshoot in a while, and I think you can see that in our eyes and smiles.  But it&amp;#039;s the same everywhere. It&amp;#039;s the same way on the posters of our show and even in women&amp;#039;s magazines. This industry seems to invest more in perfection than in flaw. But flaw and individuality, to me, are what make a human being interesting, they make our stories worth telling. (Unfortunately the flaws don&amp;#039;t usually sell products or magazines) I&amp;#039;m proud of my body and the way it looks... But my hips and thighs are a part of me (even though they magically weren&amp;#039;t in some shots!) I get those things from my momma. And I&amp;#039;m happy to shake what my momma gave me.&amp;quot; For comparison&amp;#039;s sake, Bellisario then shared unretouched photos of herself on GQ&amp;#039;s set:          So by now you have seen many a shot from #GQ and many people have said that we were photoshopped... OF COURSE WE WERE! that&amp;amp;#39;s a very specific type of photo shoot. And looking very blown out and perfected was obviously what they were looking for. Great. Cool. As long as we acknowledge how it was achieved so we know it&amp;amp;#39;s not real. Here&amp;amp;#39;s some behind the scenes of my body the way it is and was on the day. I&amp;amp;#39;m not mad at how these pictures turned out, the girls and I had an absolute blast. More fun than we&amp;amp;#39;ve had on a photoshoot in a while, and I think you can see that in our eyes and smiles. But it&amp;amp;#39;s the same everywhere. It&amp;amp;#39;s the same way on the posters of our show and even in women&amp;amp;#39;s magazines. This industry seems to invest more in perfection than in flaw. But flaw and individuality, to me, are what make a human being interesting, they make our stories worth telling. (Unfortunately the flaws don&amp;amp;#39;t usually sell products or magazines) I&amp;amp;#39;m proud of my body and the way it looks because @themarkwildman kicks my butt in aerial. But my hips and thighs are a part of me (even though they magically weren&amp;amp;#39;t in some shots!) I get those things from my momma. And I&amp;amp;#39;m happy To shake what my momma gave me. A photo posted by Troian Bellisario (@sleepinthegardn) on May 21, 2014 at 10:35am PDT      She also noted that, &amp;quot;Photoshopped or not, I work with three of the most gorgeous women on the planet.&amp;quot; Follow Alex on  Twitter. Photo credit: courtesy of GQ magazine "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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