Kelly Clarkson at her 'personal best' as she is digitally slimmed down for magazine cover

The front cover of the magazine boasts of 'motivation secrets' to reach your 'dream weight'.

But Kelly Clarkson, pictured in U.S. magazine Self, certainly didn't use any of its dieting tips to achieve her enviable figure for the cover shoot.

Instead the singer benefited from some digital altering as her curvy frame was sculpted and transformed to look her 'personal best'.

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Slimmed down: Kelly Clarkson as she appears on the September issue of the U.S. magazine Self (L) and (R) the singer shows off her natural shapely figure on ABC's Good Morning American show in New York last month

While the singer may not have an issue with her weight, the slimmed-down image has created an online backlash.

Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief of the women's health magazine, defended the retouching of the 27-year-old star on the September issue.

She wrote in a post on Self.com: 'Yes. Of course we do retouching. Did we alter her appearance? Only to make her look her personal best.'

Calling Clarkson 'the picture of confidence,' Danzinger added: 'I think this phot! o is the truest we have ever put out there on the newsstand.'

Confident: The 27-year-old star says she is happy with her naturally curvy figure

But many readers have expressed outrage at the airbrushing of the singer.

One wrote on the website jezebel.com: 'Taking out red eye and airbrushing a pimple would be making her look her personal best.

'You completely changed the way her body looked. Why even bother asking Kelly Clarkson to pose in your magazine if you didn't think her body fit into your idea of what was best?'

Another added: 'Hey, hi, ! Self ladies: None this changes or explains the fact that YOU ALTERED THE BONE STRUCTURE OF HER FACE.'

Editor in chief of Self, Lucy Danziger, defended the retouching for the magazine cover, saying it was done to show Kelly at her 'personal best'

In the Self article, Clarkson defends her figure, saying: 'When people talk about my weight, I'm like, "You seem to have a problem with it; I don't. I'm fine!"

'I'm never trying to lose weight – or gain it,' she added. 'I'm just being!'

In January Clarkson wrote on her blog that 'they Photoshopped the crap out of me!' on her All I Ever Wanted album cover image.

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