Knightley's breasts were digitally enhanced for 2004's "King Arthur."

Keira Knightley won’t allow her cleavage to be digitally enhanced on publicity photos for her new film “The Dutchess,” reports The Daily News of New York.

Knightley’s breasts have been famously enhanced in publicity stills in the past, but this time the UK actress decided that enough is enough. Let’s hope this starts a trend.

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Courtney at Feministing has a good take on Keira’s move:

What she is doing--and it’s significant--is reminding us to honor what we already know: namely that the images we see every day on television, in magazines, online, are notoriously technologically-altered and unrealistic. It’s not willpower that makes these women’s bodies perfect--it’s money, money, money, and a splash of genetic predisposition. It’s important that someone inside the system, someone that has benefited from the system, has the balls to come out and remind us of our own wisdom.

After the jump: Keira talks about learning that US magazines won’t feature women with anything less than a certain bra cup size on their covers.

(And: the best video ever made on the depiction of beauty in the media…)

Knightley explained to a US magazine (as quoted in the Daily Mail)

I did one magazine and found out you’re not actually allowed to be on a cover in the US without at least a C cup because it turns people off.

‘pparently they have done market research and found that women want to see no less than a C cup on other women. Isn’t that crazy? ‘So they made my t*** bigger for that as well.

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