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Chrissy Teigen's TIME Cover Photoshops refer to humorous images of model Chrissy Teigen edited to look as though they were covers of TIME Magazine. TIME Magazine had recently run a "100 Most Influential People" list, and several celebrities got individualized covers. Teigen did not, and invited her Twitter followers to create a cover for her using any picture of her.

Origin

On April 17th, 2019, TIME Magazine^[1] tweeted an excerpt from chef Eric Ripert's article about Chrissy Teigen in their "100 Most Influential People" issue (shown below, left). While other people in the list such as The Rock and Taylor Swift were featured on different physical copies of the magazine, Teigen and many others were not. Teigen invited her Twitter followers to create a cover for her using any photo^[2] (shown below, right).

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Teigen's followers were quick to oblige, posting some of her most memorable humorous photos photoshopped to look like a cover of TIME magazine. For example, Twitter user @darth posted a photoshop showing Teigen being crashed into by Dwayne Wade at a basketball game, gaining over 50 retweets and 2,600 likes (shown below, left). User @CharCubed posted an edit that gained over 50 retweets and 2,100 likes (shown below, right).

Others used more glamorous pictures of Teigen. For example, user @walterowensgrpa posted a photoshop of Teigen smiling on Jay-Z's body, gaining over 1,000 likes (shown below, left). User @LoveLundy posted a more traditional model photo of Teigen, gaining over 290 likes (shown below, right). The photoshops were covered by Elite Daily^[3] and Cosmo.^[4]

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