Aubrey O'Day gets called out for plagiarizing another model's photo

Aubrey O' Day from Danity Kane is getting called out for plagiarizing and photo-shopping herself in another artist's work.

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👀 #AubreyODay from #DanityKane is getting called out for plagiarizing and photoshopping herself over another artist's work (swipe!)

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The photo in question comes from Aubrey's Instagram account where she posted a picture of herself in a bathing suit and boots, laying in a desert with Deserto de Mojave (a desert in California) as the location tagged for the photo. Aubrey also tagged Fashion Nova so it's most likely a sponsored post.

Well, numerous peeps on Twitter have since called out the 35-year-old singer for plagiarizing because: 1) Aubrey allegedly photo-shopped herself on top of another model, and 2) the photo in question is supposedly not even take in Deserto de Mojav but was taken years ago in Namibia, a country in southwest Africa.

I had never heard of this woman @AubreyODay until today seeing her image she’s posted on Instagram. A stolen and photoshopped image, the original was of #SymaraTempleman years ago in Namibia. @FashionNova get your girl in line. Theft is not cute. Aubrey apologize. pic.twitter.com/p4VObjvyNZ

— Ada Afoluwake Ogunkeye (@folustorms) April 21, 2019

This chick @AubreyODay is out here photoshopping herself into photos of black women by simply replacing herself in the image... smh

Can y'all stop stealing? Just acknowledge our beauty and leave us be! pic.twitter.com/MOU1ZC2i4I

— Kai (fly-mommy) (@kainicole) April 21, 2019

@AubreyODay has photoshopped her own image over an artist’s work knowing she would receive more credit and coverage. She is profiting off someone else’s work, claiming it as her own and deleting anyone who calls her out. Make her accountable. pic.twitter.com/Ec0DZwUOZ4

— lans (@LaniLiu) April 21, 2019

I'd like you all to know that @AubreyODay has blocked me on Instagram for pointing out she photoshopped herself into this photo. She also has blocked multiple others for commenting on the photo. https://t.co/fYlCooRGM0

— Kai (fly-mommy) (@kainicole) April 21, 2019

Since we’ve posted this on our Instagram @AubreyODay #AubreyODay has blocked and deleted every comment telling her to give credit to #SymaraTempleman

She’s also tagged the location as California, but the real Location is Nambia.

This is what culture appropriation looks like pic.twitter.com/I40BgcyWtm

— U.K. Gossip TV 🇬🇧 (@UKGOSSIPTV) April 21, 2019

It’s disgusting behaviour that @AubreyODay knows exactly what she’s doing. Please RT pic.twitter.com/Bc5uIPkwLM

— U.K. Gossip TV 🇬🇧 (@UKGOSSIPTV) April 21, 2019

It’s possible the image creator/photographer created the image and lifted the idea. She may not even know.

— WTFGFX (@wtfgfx) April 21, 2019

Symara Templeman, the international model in the original photo, posted about it on her Instagram page and wrote, "Fuck....... a little filter... enlarge image....... Photoshop original model out, and put another in. And here we are .... just so so tiring, being constantly used, underappreciated."

Symara continued, "We worked so hard to create these beautiful images out in the Namibian desert. And then you have this. It's just...I'm so upset by this #aubreyoday."

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Fuck....... a little filter... enlarge image....... Photoshop original model out, and put another in. And here we are .... just so so tiring, being constantly used, underappreciated. We worked so hard to create these beautiful images out in the Namibian desert. And then you have this. It's just...I'm so upset by this #aubreyoday @aubreyoday.@paulabenz13 FULL ON PLAGIARISM AND THEFT

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This is the original image before it was photoshopped. Before I was photoshopped. The photographer is Christoph Koestlin Stylist: Rene Gloor and Mua: Jehan Radwan for narcisse magazine.

A post shared by symaratempleman (@symaratempleman) on Apr 20, 2019 at 8:38pm PDT

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And for the trolls who have already started to message me. Nope, receipts are here 2013/14. I don't have patience or time for you, I'm a grown women, I do not need to grow up. Stealing peoples work is illegal. There's a whole team behind these images. And this is a massive disrespect to our work as professionals. And again.. Illegal. @aubreyoday #aubreyoday THIS IS ILLEGAL, YOU HAVE PLAGIARISED AND STOLEN THIS IMAGE.@paulabenz13 also what part did u play in all this??? You are the photographer to this photo???

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