diff --git a/Tests/test_image_resize.py b/Tests/test_image_resize.py
index f8c9bf1a1..2f0546391 100644
--- a/Tests/test_image_resize.py
+++ b/Tests/test_image_resize.py
@@ -292,8 +292,11 @@ class TestImageResize:
 
         def resize_scale(mode: str, scale: float) -> None:
             img = hopper(mode)
-            size = (int(self.width * scale), int(self.height * scale))
-            out = img.resize(scale=scale)
+            size = (
+                int(self.width * scale),
+                int(self.height * scale)
+            )
+            out = img.resize(img.size, scale=scale)
             assert out.mode == mode
             assert out.size == tuple(size)
 
diff --git a/src/PIL/Image.py b/src/PIL/Image.py
index bd1151b6c..2da1fcc44 100644
--- a/src/PIL/Image.py
+++ b/src/PIL/Image.py
@@ -2230,8 +2230,8 @@ class Image:
         :param size: The requested size in pixels, as a tuple or array:
            (width, height).
         :param scale: An optional scale factor to upsample/downsample the image:
-           (e.g. 0.5 means that an image (width, height) will be
-           resized to (width/2, height/2)). If provided overwrite size.
+           (e.g. 0.5 means that an image input size will be
+           resized to (size[0]/2, size[1]/2)).
         :param resample: An optional resampling filter.  This can be
            one of :py:data:`Resampling.NEAREST`, :py:data:`Resampling.BOX`,
            :py:data:`Resampling.BILINEAR`, :py:data:`Resampling.HAMMING`,
@@ -2292,7 +2292,10 @@ class Image:
             raise ValueError(msg)
 
         if scale:
-            size = (int(self.width * scale), int(self.height * scale))
+            size = (
+                int(size[0] * scale),
+                int(size[1] * scale)
+            )
 
         self.load()
         if box is None: