Conflict Over SMG’s May 2003 Cover of Seventeen

RETOUCHING cover shots of stars is all the rage in the magazine world, but Seventeen may have gone overboard when it tried to disguise a stock photo of Sarah Michelle Gellar with digital alterations via Photoshop. Gellar thought she looked other-worldly on the May cover. Her lawyer, Marty Singer, told WWD : "It looks like an alien foot attached to her arm." Then Seventeen compounded its sins by sending Gellar, an animal-rights advocate, a $3,445 green ostrich-skin Prada bag. One insider snickered, "What they should have gotten was a Birkin bag" - which is even more expensive. "If you’re going to try to make up with her, at least make it the best." Singer said the bag is being returned.

Sarah Michelle Gellar Airbrushed for Mag

Sarah Michelle Gellar is fuming after a teen magazine enhanced her image on its front cover.

The Buffy The Vampire Slayer is furious with the Seventeen magazine’s tampered photograph, which she claims made her look like an extra-terrestrial.

Her attorney, Marty Singer, says, "It looks like an alien foot attached to her arm."

But Seventeen’s attempt to apologize have angered the actress even more - they sent the animal-rights supporter a $3,445 ostrich-skin Prada bag, which she sent right back.

Actress Kate Winslet recently hit out at magazine GQ after they digitally slimmed her for the cover of their February issue.