FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) – Two female college students who bared their bellies to show support for a friend couldn’t stomach a front-page newspaper photo they thought made them look fat and now are in trouble for swiping the papers.

The photo in the April 27 edition of The Gatepost at Framingham State College shows seven fans at a women’s lacrosse game with “I (heart) N-O-O-N-A-N,” the name of a player, spelled out on their stomachs.

Campus police won’t pursue criminal charges, but two students face possible disciplinary action, college spokesman Peter Chisholm said.

English professor Desmond McCarthy, the paper’s faculty adviser, said he was told by other students the women who took the papers thought they looked fat.

“This is the most stupid reason the paper has been stolen,” said McCarthy, adding that editions of The Gatepost have been stolen four times in the past 15 years.

“I just kind of got caught up in the moment and grabbed a whole bunch of copies,” said 18-year-old Jennifer Carsillo, a freshman from Salem, Conn.

, told The Boston Globe. She says she took around 130 copies, but then gave them to campus police and apologized a few days later.

Chisholm said 150 were taken, at most, but Megan Turner, The Gatepost’s editor in chief, said about half of the 2,000-paper press run disappeared.

Chisholm declined to identify the second woman who took the papers.

Freshman Courtney Wall, who was in the photo, told The Associated Press the other women in the photo thought the paper swipe was “dumb,” and she’s upset to be linked to the theft.

“If I went out dressed like that, I don’t care if it’s in the paper, obviously,” she said. “I don’t see a problem with the picture. I see a problem with me getting in trouble for something I didn’t do.”

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