Fact Check: Watch out for digitally-edited photo of Lauren Sánchez
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A picture authentically depicts journalist Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos' fiancee, with large lips and cheekbones enhanced by plastic surgery.
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In late May 2025, an allegedly authentic image of former news anchor Lauren Sánchez, billionaire Jeff Bezos' fiancee and founder of aerial film company Black Ops Aviation, circulated widely online.
The picture spread on X, Threads and Facebook. Similar pictures purporting to show Sánchez's plastic surgery alterations also spread online.
(X user @DailyLoud)
However, this image is fake — as are the related pictures above. A comparison with legitimate photos of Sánchez on Getty Images credited to several different photographers show that the fake picture circulating greatly exaggerates her actual lips and cheekbones. Someone either digitally edited the image or used artificial intelligence to generate it — or both.
Here is the original image that the digitally-altered image appears based on, per Getty Images:
Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos attend the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Getty Images)
It is unclear who made the image; a reverse image search largely returned the authentic image, rather than the altered one, making the source of the image difficult to determine. Snopes reached out to Daily Loud, one of the largest X accounts posting the fake picture, to ask about the origins of the picture. This story will be updated if they respond.
It is worth noting the "before" picture that often accompanies the digitally altered image of Sánchez appears to be an authentic photo of her from 2003.
Legitimate pictures of Sánchez which the other digitally altered pictures appear based on are also available on Getty Images here and here.
Snopes often fact-checks fake and altered images of well-known people; see, for example, our story on an edited image of tech billionaire Elon Musk's chest and a fact-check debunking an image of United Healthcare CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione allegedly wearing a "Sailor Moon" costume from the popular Japanese manga.
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Faraone, Philip. "Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos Attend the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party..." Getty Images, 11 Mar. 2024, www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/lauren-s%C3%A1nchez-and-jeff-bezos-attend-the-2024-vanity-fair-news-photo/2074848885. Accessed 28 May 2025.
Grant, Jesse. "Lauren Sánchez Attends the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker..." Getty Images, 6 Apr. 2025, www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/lauren-s%C3%A1nchez-attends-the-11th-breakthrough-prize-ceremony-news-photo/2208739911. Accessed 28 May 2025.
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