Larsa Pippen found herself in the spotlight earlier this week after Teresa Giudice posted a poorly edited photo of the couple on the beach for her birthday.
However, during an appearance on SiriusXM’s “Hits 1 Miami with Mack & Jen,” the “Real Housewives of Miami” star explained that Giudice was just “trying to be funny.”
“She sent me like three pictures and she was like, ‘Should we be on a beach?’ and I was running and I just loved the beach and I was like, ‘We look beautiful on that beach,'” Pippen, 50, recalled.
“(I) had no idea where we were. I had no idea where that beach was, but I just thought it was funny,” she continued. “I thought she was trying to be funny for my birthday.”
The “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star, 52, posted a clearly edited photo of the pair in swimsuits.
“Happy birthday to my wife @larsapippen wishing you all the best for your return. Love you guys ”, Giudice captioned the photo that went viral.
However, it became clear that Giudice had cropped them out of the original image and pasted them onto a stock image of a beach.
While Pippen embraced the photo, she was shocked when followers thought they were being critical.
“I noticed they were like, ‘Photoshop fail.’ I was like, ‘By the way, it was supposed to be funny!’” Pippen mentioned.
She continued, “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God. Do people really think we expect it to be real?’ No.”
While Pippen admitted that Giudice could have picked “a better movie,” she didn’t take the birthday post too seriously.
“I just thought, ‘Yeah, that’s cool,’” she mentioned.
Giudice explained on “Stay with Kelly and Mark” Tuesday that she was “struggling” to find satisfactory images of her and Pippen when she decided it would be best to edit the image.
“I used to be like, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s her birthday. I have to post a picture of her,’” she mentioned, noting that the pair are “really close.”
“That was the only image I had here,” she explained. “I was like, ‘Oh, that’s cool, summer!’ I just didn’t like the background.”
Giudice then contacted her “social media person,” who was vacationing in Mexico at the time.
“And I’m like, ‘Great, take a picture of the beach! That’s good, we’re in a bikini! Put it like this,’” she mentioned.
Giudice was roundly criticized after the photo was posted, with followers turning it into a meme by Photoshopping the pair into landmarks around the world.
However, the “Home of Villains” contestant took the criticism in stride, telling her Instagram followers that she was “loving all the comments lol.”
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