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Former Real Housewives of Melbourne stars Lydia Schiavello and Chyka Keebaugh recently got into a vicious feud over a suspiciously edited Instagram photo.
And now the real reason that Lydia edited an image of Chyka to make her look fat has finally been revealed.
According to RHOM star Janet Roach, Lydia may have altered the image in an attempt to get back in the headlines ahead of the show’s upcoming fifth season.
The truth? A new theory about why Real Housewives of Melbourne’s Lydia Schiavello (left) posted this edited image of co-star Chyka Keebaugh (centre) on Instagram has been revealed
Lydia won’t be part of the new season, which leads Janet to believe she may have tweaked Chyka’s appearance to try to shift the spotlight back to her.
‘I’d like to give her the benefit of the doubt that she didn’t know,’ Janet told the Unpopular podcast.
‘But now that there’s talk of Housewives [coming back], clearly Lydia has maximum FOMO [fear of missing out] in the world.’
Janet added: ‘She’s clearly got massive FOMO and she doesn’t care if it’s good advertising or bad advertising, as long as…’
‘I’d like to give her the benefit of the doubt’: RHOM’s Janet Roach said that Lydia may not have known the image was altered, but also said that the whole thing may have been a ploy to get back in the spotlight
The 62-year-old then launched into an impression of Lydia.
‘Someone’s talking about me, wow, and taking photos of me when I go for a walk!’
Janet added that there was a strong possibility that Lydia will return for the show’s sixth season if it ends up being greenlit.
She also said that Lydia may have earnestly been unaware that she had even edited Chyka’s photo in the first place.
Will she return? Janet added that there was a strong possibility that Lydia will return for the show’s sixth season if it ends up being greenlit
Sharing her own theory about the scandal, Janet said that Lydia have simply been Photoshopping herself to look slimmer, and as a result stretched out Chyka’s midsection without realising it.
‘The fact of the matter is that Lydia’s a bit of a narcissist,’ Janet said, before adding: ‘Okay, a lot of a narcissist.’
‘What I think happened is Lydia got the photo, she slimmed herself down. I don’t think she gave a s**t or looked at anybody else,’ she continued.
‘She’s posted the photo, and in slimming herself down, the repercussions of that are that, Chyka looks massive.’
‘I thought this was a great photo of us’: Lydia denied ever editing the image and said that she had no intention of offending Chyka
Denial: Lydia commented: ‘It’s an old photo Season 2 no Photoshop. I wouldn’t do that after being fat shamed myself x’
Lydia has claimed that she didn’t maliciously Photoshop the image of Chyka to make her look heavier.
She recently said that she didn’t edit the photo herself, but had instead been sent it by someone else and naively uploaded it to Instagram because she thought it ‘looked great’.
‘Hi Chyka,’ she wrote on Instagram. ‘I was sent many old photos of previous seasons of Real Housewives of Melbourne.
‘I thought this was a great photo of us all and it’s something we can’t do now. It was never my intention to offend anyone. Sending love.’
‘My last post deleted’: Lydia went as far as to delete the image after it sparked a media firestorm
After deleting the edited picture from her main grid, she shared another photo of Chyka looking svelte in a leopard-print dress, and captioned it: ‘Last post deleted. My apology to all.
‘After being fat shamed I would not intentionally do that to any one.’
She then shared one last photo of herself and Chyka looking glamorous, and wrote: ‘Oldie but a goodie! I hope everyone in this lockdown are looking after themselves.’
The saga began earlier this month when Lydia shared a throwback photo from 2014 which showed her and Chyka with fellow Housewives Pettifleur Berenger and Janet Roach.
Spot the difference: Chyka has insisted a photo shared by her co-star Lydia on Instagram was edited to make her look heavier. Pictured left, the edited version Lydia posted, and right, a similar photo uploaded in 2014
But eagle-eyed fans noticed Chyka looked larger than usual around the torso, so went through the archives to find the original photo from seven years ago.
In the original photo uploaded in 2014, Chyka was noticeably slimmer, leading fans to conclude that Lydia – or someone else – had used a warp tool to make her look fat.
‘Dying at the Photoshop. Poor Chyka doesn’t deserve the extra 47kg, Lydia,’ one fan commented, while another added: ‘Someone please find the original of this photo and bring justice for poor Chyka!’
‘How bad is that’: In the original photo posted in 2014, Chyka was noticeably slimmer, leading fans to conclude that Lydia – or someone else – had used a warp tool to make her look fat
In a recent statement to Daily Mail Australia, Chyka, 52, maintained Lydia had edited the photo, despite her claims she hadn’t after stirring up controversy with the photo.
‘Sadly I do know the truth and she did do it, but at the end of the day it says more about her and I feel very supported and loved,’ said Chyka of Lydia, 50.
She added: ‘I honestly believe Lydia edited… It was always one of her favourite things to do. Regardless, she still put up the photo knowing it 100 per cent wasn’t right.’
Meanwhile, the fifth season of The Real Housewives of Melbourne is expected to return this year with four brand new cast members.
Janet, Gamble Breaux, and Jackie Gillies will all be back, while Lydia, Gina Liano, Sally Bloomfield, and Venus Behbahani-Clark will not return.
‘Sadly I do know the truth and she did do it’: Chyka has maintained that Lydia did in fact edit the photo
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