diff --git a/.changeset/lazy-avocados-swim.md b/.changeset/lazy-avocados-swim.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8af795c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/lazy-avocados-swim.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@cloudflare/next-on-pages': patch
+---
+
+make sure that the original request headers are not passed along when fetching external images
diff --git a/packages/next-on-pages/templates/_worker.js/utils/images.ts b/packages/next-on-pages/templates/_worker.js/utils/images.ts
index f75b9a257..727b97ae8 100644
--- a/packages/next-on-pages/templates/_worker.js/utils/images.ts
+++ b/packages/next-on-pages/templates/_worker.js/utils/images.ts
@@ -158,11 +158,12 @@ export async function handleImageResizingRequest(
 
 	// TODO: implement proper image resizing
 
-	const imageReq = new Request(imageUrl, { headers: request.headers });
-	const imageResp =
+	const imgFetch =
 		isRelative && imageUrl.pathname in buildOutput
-			? await assetsFetcher.fetch(imageReq)
-			: await fetch(imageReq);
+			? assetsFetcher.fetch.bind(assetsFetcher)
+			: fetch;
+
+	const imageResp = await imgFetch(imageUrl);
 
 	return formatResp(imageResp, imageUrl, imagesConfig);
 }