Teresa Giudice admitted she posted a horribly edited image of herself with Larsa Pippen because she was “scrambling” to throw together a tribute to her friend.
The “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star reflected on the now-viral Photoshop fail during an appearance on “Live with Kelly and Mark” Tuesday.
“Did you deliberately make it look like a Photoshop?” Kelly Ripa asked Giudice.
“Well, it was her birthday,” the Bravolebrity, 52, explained of Pippen, adding that she was “scrambling” to find a nice photo with the “Real Housewives of Miami” star, 50, to share online.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, it’s her birthday. I have to post a picture for her,'” she continued. “We’re really close.”
Giudice said she could only find one good photo with Pippen; however, she did not like where it was originally taken.
“That was the only picture I came across,” she noted. “I said, ‘Oh great, summer!’ I just didn’t like the background.”
And so the cookbook author decided to seek some help from her social media manager.
“I called my assistant/social media person, and she’s like, ‘I’m in Mexico.’ And I’m like, ‘Perfect, take a picture of the beach! That’s perfect, we’re in bikinis! Put it like that,’” she said.
Giudice assured Ripa that the snap was “an actual photo” with Pippen but that they were just “in a different place.”
“We’re in Mexico — and now we’re all over the world,” she joked.
The “House of Villains” contestant was mercilessly roasted for posting the doctored image with the “Traitors” alum Saturday.
“Happy Birthday to my girl @larsapippen wishing you all the best to come. Love you,” Giudice captioned the photo, in which she and Pippen wore swimsuits.
Fans quickly noticed that they were clearly Photoshopped to look like they were standing on a white sand beach.
“Photoshop nightmare. So embarrassing,” someone commented on the post at the time, with another calling the flub “unhinged.”
“This has got to be the worst Photoshop I’ve ever seen,” a third follower added.
Trolls swiftly made memes inspired by the gaffe by Photoshopping the two ladies in front of different landmarks like the Great Wall of China, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the pyramids in Egypt and Buckingham Palace in London.
Giudice laughed off the razzing soon after, telling her Instagram followers that she was “Loving all the comments lol.”
She also re-posted some of the memes to her Instagram Story, showing she approved of the playful jabs.
Pippen, for her part, also seemed unfazed by the photo fiasco, commenting on Giudice’s post, “Love u so much.”
The former WAG celebrated her 50th birthday with a lavish night out in Miami on Saturday.
