Fact Check: FAKE Image Shows AOC Wearing Workout Clothes In Her Kitchen -- Original Is Sleeveless Polka-Dot Dress
- An image circulating online of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wearing workout clothes in her kitchen is digitally altered, as she was actually wearing a brown sleeveless dress with white polka dots in the original video.
Does a real image show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York wearing workout clothes in her kitchen? No, that's not true: The image is a manipulated screenshot from a video posted to her Instagram account, digitally altered to make her outfit appear as tight-fitting activewear. In the original video, Ocasio-Cortez is wearing a brown sleeveless dress with white polka dots.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here ) by the @panda6967 account on X on Sept. 3, 2026. It read:
AOC shows off her 'revenge' body 😳
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
Image source: post by @panda6967 on X.
The manipulated screenshot is from a video (archived here ) posted to Ocasio-Cortez's Instagram account (@aoc) on Aug. 22, 2026. The full video is embedded below:
Image sources: post by @aoc on Instagram and post by @panda6967 on X.
Image analysis
Lead Stories ran the image showing AOC in workout clothing through the Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool , which returned an aggregated score of 61.9%, indicating that it is likely to be AI-generated. The greater the tool's confidence that the content contains AI, the higher the score.
Image source: Hive Moderation.
