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

Mar. 15, 2025

Jessica Capshaw attends Chanel Tribeca Festival Artists Dinner at The Odeon on June 10, 2024 in New York City.Photo:Ammar Rowaid/getty

Ammar Rowaid/getty

Jessica Capshawis okay with calling out Hollywood beauty standards.

On the latest episode of herCall It What It IsiHeartRadio 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 andGrey’s AnatomycostarCamilla Luddington.

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

Jessica Capshaw in ‘Into the West’.Kurt Markus/Tnt/Kobal/Shutterstock

Kurt Markus/Tnt/Kobal/Shutterstock

“And then the billboard comes out, and it was one of the ones on Sunset. And then also they took out pages inVanity 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 Practicealum said her body had been “stretched” out “from my head where my hair was and my toes where my little Barbie heels were.”

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“They gave me anAvatarbody. I didn’t dislike it. It just is not my body. So I hadZoe Saldaña’s body inAvatar.So, I had anAvatarbody,” she said, noting that there were other parts of herself that looked different.

Jessica Capshaw attends the “West Side Story” New York Premiere at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center on November 29, 2021 in New York City.Roy Rochlin/Getty

Roy Rochlin/Getty

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.

Themom of foursaid her perspective on society’s beauty standards has changed after becoming a parent.

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

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“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.’ "

source: people.com