Faint Bounding Box Outline Appearing in Exported WMF

Hello,
I've created a vector image and exported the image to WMF format. But I've noticed on a few parts of the image, there's a faint bounding box. See the example below around one of the eyebrows. The only thing I can think of is after I created the right eyebrow, I selected Object>Transform>Reflect and clicked the Copy option to create the left eyebrow which now has the faint bounding box around it. Any help would be great! Thank you in advance.

You could try and open the WMF in Illustrator. Then compare the outline views and then try to find out what has happened.
Since nobody knows how exactly that image has been built, it will be diffiecult to even guess what has happend.
Do you work on a Mac or Windows system? Mac would cause trouble with WMF since it's a meta format that relies on system code (Windows system that is) to generate and read files.
If you're working on Windows you could try EMF. It's a more advanced format

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