IPhoto creates modified file

I'm a lightroom user for the editing part of my photos.
Now I've created smaller versions of my pictures and set them up in a special folder so I can have an easy way to transport them over to my mobile devices.
My issue is that sometimes when I import photos (to iphoto), it creates a modified file which is quite a bit larger then what I want in iphoto. It's about 400% larger then the photo that I have imported to iPhoto. I have not asked the program to modify anything or create any kind of copies of my pictures. I have even made sure that iphoto doesn't copy the pictures I import. I don't want more copies. I have them in my "ipod-ipad" file and that is all I need.
It's all very strange cause it no rime or reason to when it doesn't it. There is a few picture here and there that end up changed and with a modified file that is stored on my hard drive (all my originals are on an external hard drive).
The only reason I discovered this is cause one pictures was cut to only show 2/3 of the actual picture.
Does anyone know why iPhoto does this and is there a way I can stop it?
Thank you
Sophie

By larger I mean file size. Say the original (I use that word loosely since it's not my original but it's the only original iPhoto knows exists) is 250kb the modifies file might be 950kb.
It looks like the portrait photos all have a modified file but it's not exclusively the portrait pictures that have that. Some of the landscape photos have them as well. When I say revert back to original the color of the photo changes slightly. It's like iphoto has done modifications in the color as well (I have done that in Lightroom and since it is a published service maybe iphoto can sense that it has been changed).
There is no flags anywhere so not sure what you mean by that.
When I say the picture has been cut to 2/3 I mean that the left 1/3 of the picture has been cut out. Very strange. When I press revert to original, it goes back to what it should be.
None of the pictures I've been looking at for this (haven't gone thru all of them) is ordinary jpeg (not RAW) taken with my iPhone.
Thanks for you help
Sophie

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