The camera adds ten pounds — and maybe even a few inches!

It’s been over three years since we saw those pics of Orlando Bloom paddle-boarding in the nude and discovered he’s packing a paddle-sized peen in between his legs.

Lest we forget, the actor and then-girlfriend Katy Perry hit the waves in Sardinia in 2016 when he decided to remove his swim trunks. The papz snapped a few pics of Orlando’s Will Turner, and the world would never be the same.

The 42-year-old had previously addressed the photos as delicately as he could. But he’s now being very modest about it — going as far as to claim he’s not as well endowed as the pics made it seem!

During a recent interview with Howard Stern, the British hunk said with a smirk:

“It is really not that big. Things are expanded on cameras with a big optical lens. It is an optical illusion.”

Hmmm… why do we have a hard time believing that?

Confession or not, Lando went on to joke about the dramatic censoring of his manhood in the pictures. He laughed:

“The publicist called to say, ‘That is not the worst of it. First of all there were pictures with a block over it.’ And you make some jokes like, ‘Have you got a black box big enough to cover it.’ …And then you suddenly realize somebody is going to uncover the black box because they are going to be paid enough. It’s a triple whammy – photos, black box, then no black box.’”

We’ll take the no black box, please!

Orlando was a bit cockier about his dick when he first addressed the images in April 2017. While appearing on Nick Grimshaw‘s BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show, the Carnival Row star joked that he “broke the internet” with the pics, adding:

“It’s been talked about so much I’m over it already. My poor son! He’s got a lot to live up to… I broke the internet.”

He sure wasn’t size denying back then!

As for Katy, the pop star previously joked she had a “lot of therapy” over the incident, telling Australian KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O in June 2017:

“He asked me if I wanted to be [naked] and I was just like, It’s one of those things where I was like, ‘Oh nah.’ … You know when you’re dating someone sometimes, it’s exciting to be like, ‘Oh should we try and make out over here in this place?’ Or what have you, and I was just not in the mood [to get naked]. I saved it for the boat!”

The Roar songstress also joked the Lord Of The Rings actor ditched his trunks because he was “just trying to show off for all the people back at the shore.”