White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is facing questions about whether she edited a recent Instagram photo to make her husband look younger.

The 28-year-old Trump administration spokesperson posted a family picture from the White House’s Halloween celebration on Sunday. The image showed Leavitt, her husband Nicholas Riccio, and their one-year-old son, Niko. Within hours, commenters began claiming that Riccio’s face appeared to have been digitally altered.

“Karoline, awesome picture but my friends noticed something,” one commenter wrote. “The guy on the left seems to have only his face photoshopped. His hands look like 60+ years old.”

Another added, “Old man hands blow your cover up, Karoline. Your husband’s face does not match his hands.” Others chimed in with remarks about filters and airbrushing: “That smoothing filter on her old man’s forehead working overtime,” one wrote. Another called it an “Adobe ad for Photoshop.”

Riccio, 60, is 32 years older than Leavitt, a fact that has often attracted public scrutiny since the couple’s engagement in late 2023. The pair married in January 2025, several months after welcoming their son. Leavitt has largely avoided discussing her husband publicly, though she has called their relationship “very atypical.”

In February, during an interview on The Megyn Kelly Show, Leavitt said she met Riccio at a dinner in New Hampshire while running for Congress and admitted she was initially hesitant about the age gap. “He’s my greatest supporter, my best friend, my rock,” she said.

Despite the speculation, there’s little evidence that the Halloween photo was heavily retouched. Getty Images taken at the same event show Riccio looking nearly identical to the version posted on Leavitt’s Instagram — though with more visible texture and detail under the harsh lighting used by press photographers. His facial features and proportions appear consistent across both versions.

It’s common for high-profile figures to make basic lighting or color adjustments before posting official photos online, and there’s no indication Leavitt used advanced software to change her husband’s appearance. But the intensity of the reaction speaks to the broader scrutiny Leavitt faces as one of the youngest figures in the Trump administration — and as a woman navigating the intersection of politics, image, and social media.

Leavitt’s post remains online, without any comment from her or the White House. The image has continued to circulate across X and Instagram, where debates over authenticity have turned into memes about “presidential-grade filters.”