Martha Stewart leaves fans baffled as they spot bizarre detail in vacation photo

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By Asiya Ali

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Martha Stewart's latest post on Instagram has left many of her followers baffled after they noticed a strange detail in one of her shots.

GettyImages-2189119901.jpgMartha Stewart has left fans baffled with her latest post on Instagram. Credit: Kristina Bumphrey / Getty

The 83-year-old homemaking expert took to the social media platform on Monday (December 30) to share pictures from her Christmas vacation in Namibia.

In one of the snaps, the TV personality is seen standing next to a rock formation, posing with one hand in her pocket and the other against the rock.

"In western Namibia , not far from our @sanctuary_retreat there are incredible rock formations Beautiful, mysterious, and eternally remote Khaki outfit @suziekondi," Stewart penned in the caption.

Check out the pictures below:

Upon closer inspection, fans noticed that Stewart's left hand was nowhere to be seen in the picture and this led to accusations of Photoshop in her comment section.

"Martha, your hand…," one fan wrote, while another echoed: "NO left hand/arm?? Photoshop. Shame."

"Love you Martha! And your missing hand," a third quipped. "Love love the first pic but cannot figure out hand .. ?" a fourth remarked, and one more added: "Where is your left hand? Even without it u look stunning."

Meanwhile, other users were quick to defend the chef, suggesting the missing hand was simply an “optical illusion".

“It’s behind the rock,” one person wrote, while another agreed: “Seems like the rock she’s leaning on is hidden by the rock that’s visible in the picture. Cool optical illusion.”

The lifestyle mogul shared some more pictures from her adventures in the African nation, including a snap of the helicopter she'd been on to see the Skeleton Coast, which is the world’s largest ship cemetery.

She explained to her 2.5 million followers: "The best way to see the Skeleton Coast is by helicopter We spent two hours touring the west coast of Namibia flying low over beautiful terrain quite populated with elephant Giraffe Seals Flamingos Even lions!

"And the landscape- sand castles! Rock formations palm trees," she added.

GettyImages-2180124996.jpgNetflix has released a documentary about Martha Stewart's life. Credit: Kevin Mazur / Getty

The mother-of-one's pictures come after Netflix released Martha, a documentary that chronicled Stewart's incredible life - from working as a stockbroker to becoming America's first self-made female billionaire, to her prison term.

Stewart shared her candid opinion of the film in an interview with The New York Times published the same day as the documentary’s release.

Criticizing the film’s second half, she said: “Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those. And he refused. I hate those last scenes. Hate them.

“I had ruptured my Achilles’ tendon,” she continued. “I had to have this hideous operation. And so I was limping a little. But again, he doesn’t even mention why – that I can live through that and still work seven days a week.”

She also slammed the film’s “lousy” soundtrack, claiming that she had originally told director R. J. Cutler that “an essential part of the film is that you play rap music.” Instead, she said, he got “some lousy classical score in there, which has nothing to do with me."

Despite her critical remarks, she acknowledged some merit in the documentary, noting that she loves the first half as it "gets into things that many people don’t know anything about, which is what I like about it."

“That’s what I wanted the documentary to be. It shouldn’t be me boasting about inner strength and any of that crap. It should be about showing that you can get through life and still be yourself,” she concluded.

GettyImages-2180136795.jpgMartha Stewart revealed that she doesn't like some parts of the film. Credit: Kevin Mazur / Getty

Responding to Stewart’s critiques, Cutler told The New York Times: “It’s a movie, not a Wikipedia page. It’s the story of an incredibly interesting human being who is complicated and visionary and brilliant.

“I am really proud of this film, and I admire Martha’s courage in entrusting me to make it,” he added. “I’m not surprised that it’s hard for her to see aspects of it,” he added.

Featured image credit: Kristina Bumphrey / Getty