Jill Zarin Embraces Photoshop, Sparking Debate Among Former Real Housewives
The Real Housewives of New York City personality Jill Zarin isn’t hesitant to acknowledge that she adjusts her social media photographs.
“Greeting 2026!!! The finest is still ahead!” Zarin, 62, posted via Instagram on Friday, January 2, sharing a picture of herself posing on a private aircraft.
Zarin, dressed in a white crop top paired with matching leggings, appeared cheerful from her seat while lifting her hands above her head in celebration. For her appearance, she wore a complete makeup application including artificial lashes and shiny lipgloss — but that wasn’t the only alteration.
“Indeed, Photoshop enhanced,” Zarin added in her caption, seemingly confirming that she digitally modified her image before uploading it to Instagram.
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Despite her Photoshop admission, Zarin’s celebrity companions all noticed her remarkable physique in the image. Tamar Braxton, Patti Stanger and Stacey Silva each sent a number of fire symbols in the comments section.
RHONY alum Aviva Drescher, for her part, responded, “Benjamin Button!”
Zarin’s pro-Photoshop image notably comes months after her former costar Ramona Singer sparked similar speculation that she digitally enhanced her online look.
“Just another wonderful evening in Palm Beach,” Singer, 69, wrote via Instagram in April 2025, quickly drawing attention to her youthful appearance.
She later refuted editing the shot at all, writing via Instagram comment, “No filter, embarrassed I don’t know how.”
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In a follow-up message, Singer reinforced her stance, adding, “I didn’t edit. I suppose my lovely gay friends did lol.”
Singer previously had other Instagram issues throughout the years, including inadvertently posting a screenshot of her bank account in March 2021.
“I was attempting to do an Insta Story about how I liked how my hair looked,” Singer exclusively told Us Weekly the following month, blaming the app’s newest software update for her online mishap. “Instead, what posted was my bank account because somehow that came from the photos. I don’t know how. That was a photo for my assistant to show that I got paid from one of the accounts for doing Instagram Stories … [it] was simpler for me to take a screenshot and send it to him than to write out the information.”
She continued, “Never take a screenshot of something unless you want it public. That’s my lesson. At least you know I have money in my account! There you go.”
Singer and Zarin were two of the original Housewives on RHONY, which has since been rebooted with a new cast, including Erin Lichy, Sai de Silva, Ubah Hassan, Jessel Taank, Jenna Lyons and Brynn Whitfield. Both Lyons, 57, and Whitfield, 39, announced their departures last year prior to season 16.
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The official RHONY season 16 cast list or premiere date have yet to be revealed, although it is in development.
“We have a cast for The Real Housewives of New York City,” executive producer Andy Cohen hinted during a BravoCon 2025 panel. “We are going to be filming in the coming months. [I’m] very excited about that. More to come about that.”
While there have been rumors the new apple-holders could encounter the OGs in the new season, that might not be probable.
“I honestly trust the Bravo producers. They understand what they’re doing,” Lichy, 38, exclusively told Us Weekly elsewhere at BravoCon. “I feel like if they really thought that that was the approach to take, then that’s the approach we would take, you know. I don’t think that they believe that that’s right for our group.”
