They became household names in 2018 after appearing on the fifth season of Married At First Sight.
But fans would had a hard time recognising Sarah Roza, 42, and Melissa Walsh, 56, after a heavily Photoshopped image of the pair surfaced on Instagram last week.
The black-and-white image showed Sarah and Melissa posing in cleavage-baring outfits, and they both looked completely unrecognisable due to airbrushing.
Do you recognise these women? Married At First Sight fans may have struggled to recognise Melissa Walsh (left) and Sarah Roza (right) after an excessively Photoshopped image of the pair surfaced on Instagram last week
Their faces looked blurred and featureless in the photo, and both women’s eyes and teeth were unnaturally white.
The image was originally uploaded by Sarah in February, and was re-posted by Melissa on Sunday.
Many influencers have taken a stand against excessive Photoshopping in an attempt to promote more realistic body image expectations.
New look: The black-and-white photo showed Sarah and Melissa posing together in cleavage-baring outfits, both looking completely unrecognisable and featureless due to airbrushing. Sarah is pictured left at the MAFS Reunion in February 2021, right on Instagram last week
Unnatural: Their skin appeared completely blurred in the photo, while both women’s eyes and teeth were unnaturally white. Melissa is pictured left on MAFS in 2018. right on Instagram last week
Others simply consider posting overly filtered images as passé. However, it seems Sarah and Melissa forgot the memo.
Sarah has earned quite a reputation for uploading clumsily doctored images of herself on Instagram over the years.
In March last year, the beautician shared a photo of herself looking like a completely different person as she modelled a skintight leopard-print frock.
Raising eyebrows: Sarah has earned quite a reputation for sharing overtly doctored images of herself on Instagram over the years
Is that you, Sarah? In March 2020, the beautician shared a photo of herself looking like a completely different person as she modelled a skintight leopard-print frock. Pictured left on the red carpet in February 2017, right on Instagram in March 2020
Sarah’s skin appeared impossibly smooth, while her face resembled that of a computer-generated character – presumably due to the use of editing tools such as FaceTune.
Days after Daily Mail Australia pointed out the glaring Photoshop fail, Sarah insisted her social media photos were an accurate representation of how she looks.
According to Sarah, paparazzi photos taken around the time she was on MAFS don’t reflect her actual appearance because of the inner struggles she was going through.
Response: Sarah hit back at suggestions that her red carpet photos were misleading, and insisted that her Instagram photos were in fact a more accurate representation of how she looks. Pictured left at the MAFS Reunion in February 2021, right on Instagram in November 2020
Sarah said she looks ‘barely recognisable’ these days because she’s ‘worked damn hard to leave the old me well in the past’ – not because of Facetune or Photoshop.
In December 2019, Sarah hit back at trolls after she posted photos from her trip to Bali and fans pointed out that her head looked smaller than her body.
‘Why have they made your head look extremely small and not in proportion to your body?’ one fan asked, suggesting that Sarah had paid someone to edit her pictures.
Whoops! In December 2019, Sarah hit back at trolls after she posted photos from her trip to Bali and fans pointed out that her head looked smaller than her body
Sarah didn’t take too kindly to the comment, replying: ‘WOW! Well I’m a very curvy girl darl… big boobs, big hips etc. I’m no twig. So I can see why you’d think my head is actually smaller than my body.
‘I think I am perfectly in proportion. So maybe you should ask God or the universe why my body is like it is.’
She added: ‘For goodness sake anyone who thinks that my head is extremely small in comparison to my body needs to get their damn eyes tested.’
Sarah appeared on the fifth season of Channel Nine’s Married At First Sight. She was partnered with FIFO worker Telv Williams in the experiment.
Despite staying together in the finale, the pair eventually had a bitter public split.
Remember them? Sarah appeared on the fifth season of Channel Nine’s Married At First Sight. She was partnered with FIFO worker Telv Williams in the experiment