Jessica Capshaw Recalls Shock Over Seeing Heavily Edited Photo of Herself on a Billboard: 'I Had a Completely Different Nose'

08/05/2024 09:55 PM

"New nose. I had a new nose. My nose was not my nose on this billboard or this spread," said Capshaw

Jessica Capshaw is okay with calling out Hollywood beauty standards.

On the latest episode of her Call It What It Is iHeartRadio podcast, "Call It Photoshop," the actress, 47, recalled the shocking moment she saw a heavily edited photo of herself on a billboard.

"I was in this big Western miniseries [Into the West], and they did a group picture where it was, I mean, it had to have been fifteen to twenty cast members, and we didn't even shoot us all at the same time, but we're all lined up, and I shot mine alone because I had been working somewhere else at the time," she explained to her podcast co-host and Grey's Anatomy costar Camilla Luddington.

Capshaw recalled "feeling pretty good that day" and seeing the pictures afterward, which she thought looked "great" and "fantastic."

Related: Grey's Anatomy's Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington Won't Be 'Sugarcoating' Advice on New Podcast (Exclusive)

"And then the billboard comes out, and it was one of the ones on Sunset. And then also they took out pages in Vanity Fair, so it's like really everywhere, and I'm so excited because it's like a big deal for me. And I go to look at it, and I flip through the thing, and I look at it, and I'm like, 'What the?' " said Capshaw.

The Practice alum said her body had been "stretched" out "from my head where my hair was and my toes where my little Barbie heels were."

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!

"They gave me an Avatar body. I didn't dislike it. It just is not my body. So I had Zoe Saldaña's body in Avatar. So, I had an Avatar body," she said, noting that there were other parts of herself that looked different.

Related: Jessica Capshaw Reveals She Had a Miscarriage: 'The Most Shocking and Deeply, Deeply Sad Thing'

"There was so much more in my hair, so much there was hair everywhere. Not only were my lips juicy, [but] they were a totally different shape. They were like, I get it that people like to overline the lips these days. Whatever, Okay. But they were like a bow. They were like a big heart on top," she said. "I had a big heart, and then my bottom lip went down to where like the middle of my chin is."

The most shocking thing for Capshaw was seeing her nose edited.

"New nose. I had a new nose. My nose was not my nose on this billboard or this spread. I had a completely different nose," she said.

The mom of four said her perspective on society's beauty standards has changed after becoming a parent.

"In looking at it through a parenting eye, is that it's really important how you talk to yourself through it," she said.

Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

"It's really, really important that you're kind to yourself and that you acknowledge the thought," continued Capshaw. "It's like, 'Okay, I'm doing that thing, like I'm looking at that person, and I'm thinking I wish that I look like them for X, Y or Z reason, and I'm gonna feel that and then I'm gonna dismiss that thought and let it move right on.' "

For more People news, make sure to sign up for our newsletter!

Read the original article on People.