Kate’s cancer: Blake Lively apologizes for “Photoshop fail” joke

After Princess Kate’s cancer diagnosis was announced, actress Blake Lively apologized for an Instagram post in which she made fun of a manipulated family photo of Kate.

“I’m sure no one cares today, but I feel like I have to admit it,” the 36-year-old began in an Instagram story. She then wrote: “I posted a stupid post about the Photoshop fail fuss. This post shames me today. I’m sorry.”

For British Mother’s Day on March 10th, Kensington Palace published a photo of Kate and her children, but several news agencies withdrew it shortly afterwards due to image manipulation. Kate then took responsibility and explained how many amateur photographers experiment with image editing.

Lots of support for Kate

Shortly afterwards, according to media reports, Lively posted a poorly manipulated photo of herself on her own account and wrote, among other things, that she was very happy to post her new photo, which she “just took today”. Other US stars such as Kim Kardashian and Sheryl Crow also made mocking posts about Kate.

Princess Kate also received a lot of support from numerous stars. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, for example, had already condemned the conspiracy theories circulating about Kate’s health before Kate’s video message and described them as a “low point in our society.” “This is a person with small children and it is clearly a health problem. This is a private matter,” she wrote on Instagram. After the diagnosis became known, she called, among other things, to send “only our best wishes” to Kate and her family and to focus on your own life and the lives of those close to you.

Kate addressed the public in a video message on Friday and spoke about a cancer diagnosis that was discovered after abdominal surgery in mid-January. She had not appeared in public since then.