'Stunning' plus-size model hits back at fat-shaming trolls slamming bikini pics
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A plus-size model has responded after being inundated with awful comments to photos of her in a bikini.
Erin Marley Klay took to X over the weekend to go off on haters who had cruel things to say about her weight.
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“You could be hot. But you’re too fat,” one person wrote before advising the model that a “calorie deficit is all you need. Maybe some walks around the neighbourhood after work.”
A second user said, “Being overweight is a serious health issue, please seek treatment with diet, exercise and medication if needed, one can develop diabetes, heart issues and other illness from it.”
A third asked, “Would women be supportive if she was a model 10? No, they don’t see her as a threat they pity her and virtue signal that they’re kind in the replies.”
Klay appeared to be used to the hate as she was eager to respond.
“I love when I post pictures that bring out the fatphobics because it means I literally look so hot it’s confusing them,” she wrote in the first of a series of X posts, prompting her to post even more bikini photos.
“A lot of these men don’t even know I’m a signed model with several campaigns under my belt so seeing them try to call me ugly is just really funny to me. My profession speaks for itself!”
The gorgeous 24-year-old shared an eye-popping photo the following day with the caption, “Unfortunately for half of Twitter I woke up still plus-sized and really beautiful again.”
Before pointing out to critics in another post that 80% of her online followers are men, Klay added more swimsuit photos to her account.
Donning a sexy, red, halter-top one-piece, she captioned the pics, “‘Body fat percentage’ this ‘lose weight’ that. Have you considered I don’t care and I’m really hot?”
But it wasn’t all hate with Klay with many fans calling the model “stunning” and a “goddess.”
Klay, who has more than half a million followers on social media and has modelled for brands like Fashion Nova Curve and Selkie, thanked supporters for “the kindest compliments,” adding, “There is no possible way to respond to all of you but know that I’m reading as many as I can and I appreciate you.”
But in another post, Klay advised, “Please don’t let society’s preconceived notions of what is beautiful and what’s not stop you from living your life.
“What someone says about your appearance reflects on them alone, not you. You have to realize someone with so much hate in their heart is far more miserable than you could ever be wearing a bikini at the beach. Get out there.”
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