Demi Lovato just went nuclear on Instagram … for allowing a disgusting ad fat-shaming women to end up on her feed.
The singer blasted the social media platform Friday with several posts … going off after a sponsored ad for a mobile game appeared. Demi wasn’t having it … ...
Demi Lovato Yo, Instagram ... Get this Fat-Shaming Crap off My Feed!!!
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Friday, January 4, 2019
Demi Lovato Yo, Instagram ... Get this Fat-Shaming Crap off My Feed!!!
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Kourtney Kardashian to Fat-Shaming Fans: I"ll Eat Whatever I Want!
If you’re a fan of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, you may have noticed that Kim and her sisters spend a surprising amount of time eating.
We don’t mean to say they take in more food than your average person — in fact, they probably consume far fewer calories than most of us.
But the Kards almost certainly avoid carbs the way most of us try to steer clear of IRS audits or people who retweet themselves.
Combine that with the fact that they probably also stick to low-fat diets and it’s easy why they would need to munch on salads all day in order to keep from feeling like they’re wasting away.
Now, you might be thinking that we’ve spent far too much time obsessing over the food intake of a bunch reality stars and Instagram influencers — and you would be right.
But we swear we’re going somewhere with all of this.
Apparently, KUWTK viewers were appalled by the amount of time Kourtney Kardashian spent eating during Sunday night’s episode.
The situation was so bad that Kourt felt the need to defend herself on Twitter.
“I swear I just read 100 comments about me eating on tonight’s episode and some of you are very offended. Let me live,” the mother of three tweeted.
A source who spoke with People magazine claims that the idea of anyone shaming Kourtney for the amount she eats is absurd, as the 39-year-old is a known fitness fanatic.
“She works out and eats in order to try to stay around 100 lbs.,” the insider says, adding that Kourt’s problem is not with losing weight but with keeping it on.
“Yes, she eats very healthy but she wants her body to be healthy and not underweight or malnourished.”
The source adds that Kourtney’s “body type is very different from her sisters’” and it sometimes requires her to spend a large part of her day eating in order to maintain a healthy weight.
Kourtney even went so far as to outline her diet regimen, noting that she begins each day by taking a collagen supplement and always avoids refined sugars.
That’s all well and good, and Kourt deserves credit for taking care of herself, but we would have respected her more if she had just flipped off the haters and reminded everyone that it’s her body and she can do whatever the hell she wants with it.
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
"Riverdale" Star Charles Melton Apologizes for Fat-Shaming Comments
“Riverdale” star Charles Melton is apologizing and blaming immaturity for some really heinous fat-shaming comments he made that have come back to haunt him. Melton is addressing the now 6-year-old tweets that have gone viral after someone…
Monday, September 18, 2017
Fat-Shaming Mom: Fat Teachers Will Make My Daughter Fat!
Fat-shaming seems to be virtually omnipresent in our society. As with other forms of body-shaming, people come up with all sorts of weird excuses for their condemnation of people for something that is absolutely none of their business.
Taking awful to the next level, one mom explains why the very sight of a fat woman made her decide against enrolling her toddler at a particular daycare.
Whatever you’re thinking that she’s going to say … it’s worse.
A British woman named Hilary Freeman wrote a letter in which she tries to explain why she can’t stand the idea of her daughter even spending time around a fat woman.
“The nursery assistant was clearly a lovely woman: kind and great with children. But as I watched her play with my two-year-old daughter, I felt a growing sense of unease.”
If you’re thinking “that’s your problem, lady” you’re very right.
“She was only in her 20s, but she was already obese — morbidly so. She moved slowly and breathlessly, her face flushed.”
Has anyone ever spent their day following a bunch of preschoolers around? (I have; as a teenager I was a teaching assistant at a day camp for kids that age, and children that age are active enough to wear out anyone. Even a professional athlete — seriously, there have been studies)
“Would she, I wondered, have the lightning reflexes needed to save an adventurous toddler from imminent danger?”
That is … not, generally speaking, a requirement for daycare workers.
(Also, plenty of fat people have great reflexes … she might be thinking of alcoholics)
“And what sort of unhealthy habits would she teach my daughter, who would be eating her lunch and tea there each day?”
First of all, “tea” is British for “snack.”
Second of all, if you’re thinking that “if my child has a teacher like that, they’ll grow up to be like that” is an argument that you’ve heard before about, say, LGBT people, you’re not alone.
The “think of the children” argument isn’t usually used as a weapon against fat adults, but bigoted arguments are often interchangeable.
We have to wonder if she’d be trying this argument if she’d refused to enroll her daughter at a school with a woman in a wheelchair.
Would she still feel comfortable admitting that she feels that a disabled woman couldn’t rescue her daughter?
Would she still suggest that children might hope to grow up to be paralyzed?
“Looking around, I noticed that she wasn’t the only extremely overweight member of staff. I couldn’t help worrying about the message this was sending to the children in their care: that being very fat is normal and — when children adopt role models so readily — even desirable.”
First, being fat is a normal thing. Not universal, but … it’s normal for people to be fat. Just go anywhere and look around and notice that fat people are commonplace.
Second of all, her worry that little children will aspire to become fat themselves ia absurd. It sounds like she’s joking, but as you continue to read, you’ll find that this is a serious fear of hers.
“Is this snobbery or ‘fatism’? I don’t think so, but plenty will disagree with me.”
The answer to her question is yes.
But she’s right about disagreements.
“This is the first time I have publicly admitted to feeling this way. Aware that the reaction would be anger and vilification, I censored myself. I told everyone I preferred the other nursery because it was smaller and friendlier. I knew I would be accused of discrimination, or ‘fat-shaming’, if I admitted the truth.”
Yeah. Lots of people have bigoted thoughts but don’t give them voice because people will call them out for being awful.
Apparently, these days, bigots are taking pride in speaking out.
“It’s not politically correct to comment on anyone’s size any more, and certainly not to say anything negative about obesity. Some even see the word ‘fat’ as equivalent to a racial or homophobic slur.”
Bigotry is bigotry. “Fat” isn’t a slur, but if everyone used it like this woman does, it might be.
As for “politically correct,” that’s a meaningless term that people who want to be rude or bigoted use to describe meeting the bare minimum of politeness.
“Fat-positivity — also known as fat acceptance — has gone too far. Originally a response to discrimination against those who aren’t slim enough to fit into society’s beauty ideal, it’s now an excuse for the severely obese to celebrate their bodies, the consequences be damned.”
Look, people are free to love or hate their flesh prisons. The “consequences” are none of her business and none of my business.
She talks about a woman who planned on raising her daughter to love her body no matter its form.
“People should not be fat-shamed, but I had to point out that it was not inevitable the woman’s daughter would become fat. Nobody is born obese.”
Genetic predispositions exist.
“And, more importantly, being overweight is not healthy, so, rather than teaching her daughter to accept it, she could teach her that it was something to be avoided if possible … and how.”
Sure … except that, as you’ll see, this woman’s idea of how to avoid becoming fat is to eat a frighteningly small amount of food per day.
“Perhaps I feel so strongly about this because I’m a slim person with a fat person inside, wanting to burst out. My body clings on to every calorie it can. A doctor told me evolution had ensured I would survive a famine — not that useful for a 21st-century North London girl with a sedentary job.”
That’s the part of her letter that’s most relatable. Fat-shaming tends to come from a place of fear.
But she quickly dashes any goodwill that she might have garnered.
So I have little sympathy for those who blame their genes or hormones for being fat. My grandmother was morbidly obese, and I have a hormonal condition — an underactive thyroid — which causes weight gain.”
Genes and hormones are responsible, largely, for body type. You can exercise for multiple hours a day, every day, and still be overweight. Another person can binge eat and complain that they’re underweight. That’s biology.
Listen to Hilary Freeman’s solution for her own weight:
“It wasn’t about dieting, it was about establishing a routine that would keep me slim for life: doing at least half-an-hour’s exercise every day and never eating more than 1,500 calories.”
1,500 calories per day is not enough for an adult.
A Hardee’s Monster Thickburger has 1,420 calories. On Hilary Freeman’s diet, a person could eat one single (admittedly large) burger and only have room for 80 calories for the entire rest of the day.
She wants to groom her daughter to deny herself simple amounts of happiness in the same way. She wants to groom her daughter to do what most would describe as starving herself.
Now, her parenting aside, Hilary Freeman is welcome to eat as much or as little as she likes. That’s none of our business.
It’s only when she promotes that for others that we take issue.
She believes that promoting her own habits is morally superior to someone suggesting that everyone eat a dozen doughnuts per day, every day.
It is not. Both of those are personal choices that our none of our business.
That’s not being “politically correct” or whatever, that’s just part of a being a person who respects that other people can live their own lives.
And, again, her daughter cannot “catch” being fat from a fat teacher.
Monday, June 19, 2017
Lucy Hale: Slammed for Fat-Shaming Herself!
Lucy Hale is a very successful young actress who is coming off a lengthy stint on Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars.
The star has been very open about her personal life and the things she went through in her younger years, but fans are less than impressed with a recent comment she made on Instagram.
The actress uploaded a picture of herself with her father in honor of Father’s Day. She’s not the only celebrity who took to social media to celebrate the day, but she probably caused the most controversy.
“You taught me to have soul. I love you daddy,” Hale captioned the below picture.
Now, it seems like an innocent enough post, but it’s what Lucy wrote in the comments after posting it that caused all of the drama.
“Ugh, I was so fat,” she shared.
It certainly seems like a bizarre statement to make, especially considering the fact most of her fans are young girls.
One commenter said, “Oh great, just what we need. Women with celebrity status body shaming themselves and therefore thousands of girls who are of normal weight. Good grief.”
“@lucyhale this is fat? What an unhealthy mentality,” said another.
There were some fans who seemed genuinely concerned for the star after her comment.
“Lucy, you are beautiful, don’t ever think you look fat, you’re the most beautiful person i’ve ever seen, inside & out,” one fan began, before concluding, “Don’t think that about yourself, you’re better than that, we love you Lucy, and your beautiful body.”
Another fan decided to educate people on eating disorders while stressing that people should not be attacking Lucy during this time.
“I’ve been struggling with anorexia my entire life. A lot of these comments are really missing the point and targeting your character when your character shouldn’t even be in question,” the lengthy post begins.
“As a person who knows what it’s like to look at pictures from three years ago, and even three months ago, I know how often I regard that girl as ‘fat.’ More often than not I call the girl in the mirror that, too.”
“I really hope you know your worth as a person, and I’m sure you do. You didn’t ask for it, but you’re someone that people look up to. I’m just sorry that some of them don’t understand the disease. Take care, Lucy. I’ll always think you’re beautiful.”
Lucy was candid about her eating disorder in an interview with Cosmopolitan in 2012, saying: “I’ve never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I’d have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem… It was a gradual process, but I changed myself.”
The star has yet to respond to any of the comments. What do you think about all of this?
Sound off below!
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Kailyn Lowry Responds to Fat-Shaming Comments, Pregnancy Rumors
For the past two weeks, rumors that Kailyn Lowry is pregnant with her third child have been circulating non-stop on social media.
Fans got specific with this one, going so far as to claim that Kailyn is pregnant by Javi Marroquin, whom she’s currently in the process of divorcing.
Kailyn addressed the rumors in a statement to Radar Online issued last week, but not surprisingly, many Teen Mom 2 viewers remain unconvinced.
“Anyone else think Kail looks pregnant?” reads one comment on the photo above.
“Why does Kail look pregnant?” wrote another Instagram follower.
In the week since the Radar denial, Kailyn has reiterated on social media that she is not currently expecting a third child.
Now, it seems Kailyn has decided that the speculators are gonna speculate, and it’s not worth issuing a denial every time some Internet rando makes a bold declaration about her uterus.
However, that doesn’t mean she’s about to stay silent when the pregnancy talk turns to fat-shaming.
In a since-deleted tweet a fan remarked to Kailyn yesterday that she should stop eating Chick-Fil-A, as she’s “fat enough already.”
“I did put on a little weight this winter, huh? I’m happy though,” Kailyn responded.
It was a surprisingly level-headed response to a rather cruel online attack.
Of course, Kailyn knows that she’s reached a point in her fame in which her devoted followers will happily rush to her defense, and that’s exactly what happened here.
The fat-shamer was promptly put in her place by a few hundred TM2 obsessives, and the offending tweet was deleted shortly thereafter.
As for the pregnancy rumors, we suppose it’s not hard to see why fans are reluctant to believe Lowry.
When Jenelle Evans denied being pregnant with her third child, she set a precedent that will likely affect her castmates for years to come.
Now, when one of the ladies addresses pregnancy rumors, fans are more apt to see it as “pulling a Jenelle” – putting off confirmation so that she can do it on her own terms.
Since the reports are especially scandalous in Kailyn’s case – as fans believe she’s secretly pregnant by her estranged husband – many feel she has additional reason to keep things on the down-low.
So yeah, it may be tough for Lowry to convince fans she’s telling the truth.
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Kristen Cavallari on Jay Cutler Haters: Stop Fat-Shaming My Husband!
Saying Jay Cutler and his Chicago Bears didn’t have the greatest season in 2016 would be putting it very mildly.
The Bears finished the year at 3-13 and would’ve had the worst record in the NFC, were it not for the lowly San Francisco 49ers.
There’s been talk that Cutler may not be returning to Chicago following a season-ending shoulder injury, and that would probably be just fine with many Bears fans.
Fortunately, the Cut still has at least one loyal fan in his corner.
Jay’s wife and former MTV reality star posted the above photo earlier this week, along with the following caption:
“I had the best birthday of my life and it was all thanks to this guy. Not only did he plan a huge surprise party, he planned a “surprise” trip to Mexico with some of my closest friends, too.
“Thanks, babe….you will probably never see this.”
Pretty innocuous stuff, right?
Unfortunately, Kristen posted it on Instagram, where the slightest hint of physical imperfection is enough to lure the trolls from their hiding places:
“WTF did he eat himself,” one hater commented.
“Who’s the lesbian on the left?” wrote another.
Husband and gusband. And since Jay looked like a 300lb lesbian in my last post, I felt I should do him justice by posting him looking hot AF in this one
Kristen may have laughed this one off, but in a recent interview with People, she made it clear that her family is strictly off limits to social media haters:
“I’ve been dealing with criticism since I was 17,” Cavallari said.
“When it’s me, I can handle it, I can take it. I have thick skin.
“When it’s about my kids or my husband, I get really defensive. And then I become a little fighter, and I’ve been known to get a little trigger-happy sometimes.”
Kristen has butted heads with trolls many times in the past, and she’s always been clear about the rules of engagement:
As with any turf war between dueling mafia factions, kids and spouses are off-limits.
Some have taken the fact that Cavallari comments on her marriage in interviews as an indication that they’re free to offer their own two cents on her family life.
Those people are wrong and dumb.
Don’t be like those people.
This has been your daily reminder to not be a jackass on the Internet.
Monday, August 22, 2016
Tyler Baltierra Reacts to Outrage Over Catelynn Lowell Fat-Shaming Comments
Last week, a preview for the new season of Teen Mom featured a moment that surprised many fans of the long-running MTV reality series.
In the clip above, Tyler Baltierra fat-shames Catelynn Lowell, slamming his wife over the size of her meal moments after she stated that she’d like to rejoin Weight Watchers.
So it’s not like Catelynn’s weight was a problem and she didn’t realize it.
And considering Catelynn went to rehab for emotional issues shortly after the scene was filmed, it’s not like she was in such a stable place that such hurtful comments rolled right off her back.
Nevertheless, Tyler is reacting to the situation in the fashion beloved by reality stars who have said something stupid on camera:
Basically his response to pissed off fans is, Hey, I know I’ve spent my adult life cashing in on your interest in my personal life, but now that the attention has turned negative, can you stop?
On Saturday, Baltierra revealed that he’s in therapy learning how to refrain from making the types of remarks he made, because apparently that’s the sort of thing one has to learn in therapy.
Shortly thereafter, however, Baltierra had a message to fans who were upset by his remarks:
“When your [sic] with someone for over 10 yrs your [sic] able to speak to each other openly & honestly. That’s how we communicate,” Baltierra tweeted.
“We aren’t afraid to hurt each other’s feelings, because we know how strong our love for each other is>”
If that explanation is a bit TL;DR for you, it can basically be summed up as:
“STFU, people who made me famous. That’s how I ‘communicate’ with my wife.”
We initially thought therapy was a bit of an overreaction, but now we’re thinking Tyler could benefit from working on his communication skills.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Iskra Lawrence Sends Delicious Message to Fat-Shaming Trolls
Iskra Lawrence for all the wins, people.
For. All. The. Wins!
The model – who serves as face of the #AerieREAL movement, which is a campaign that aims to promote body positivity – shot down some fat-shaming trolls on Instagram earlier this month.
In the tastiest way possible.
First, the beauty shared a social media photo (above) in which she’s simply lying on her back, surrounded by bags of potato chips and other snacks.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t help myself…This is for anyone who has ever been called FAT,” she wrote as a caption to the awesome photo, adding the Twitter handle of some moron who recently called her out as a “cow.”
The model has turned negative comments such as these into a powerful message for her fans.
She told them she’s totally down with eating some junk food every now and then… as everyone ought to be.
“I eat whatever I want in moderation,” Lawrence explained.
“I will eat crisps but I’ll also make healthy home cooked meals and workout regularly. The message is who gives a F what anyone else thinks of you. YOU are the only one who decides yourself worth.”
To emphasize this point, she also shared the following video:
“I’m usually not rude or give anyone the finger but these online trolls smdh,” she wrote the amazing piece of footage included here.
She concluded her Instagram messages with the hashtag “#everyBODYisbeautiful” and, really, what else is there to say?
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Wentworth Miller Responds to Fat-Shaming Meme With Heartbreaking Open Letter
Though best known for his work on Prison Break and The Flash, Wentworth Miller has a number of impressive accomplishments to his name.
Miller is a Princeton grad, an accomplished screenwriter, and as of this week, an advocate for others who have been bullied on social media:
The above meme went viral on Instagram this week, prompting Miller, who has spoken about his struggles with depression and anxiety in the past, to post a moving open letter to his Facebook page.
In a post that hs accrued more than half a million likes in less than 24 hours, Miller writes:
“In 2010, semi-retired from acting, I was keeping a low-profile for a number of reasons. First and foremost, I was suicidal. This is a subject I’ve since written about, spoken about, shared about. But at the time I suffered in silence. As so many do.
“The extent of my struggle known to very, very few. Ashamed and in pain, I considered myself damaged goods. And the voices in my head urged me down the path to self-destruction. Not for the first time.
“In 2010, at the lowest point in my adult life, I was looking everywhere for relief/comfort/distraction. And I turned to food. It could have been anything. Drugs. Alcohol. Sex.
“But eating became the one thing I could look forward to. Count on to get me through. There were stretches when the highlight of my week was a favorite meal and a new episode of TOP CHEF. Sometimes that was enough. Had to be.
“And I put on weight. Big f–king deal…One day, out for a hike in Los Angeles with a friend, we crossed paths with a film crew shooting a reality show. Unbeknownst to me, paparazzi were circling.
“They took my picture, and the photos were published alongside images of me from another time in my career. ‘Hunk To Chunk.’ ‘Fit To Flab.’ Etc.”
Miller goes on to say that a friend of his mother’s first alerted him to the photo in a tabloid.
He says he was at first horrified to see it resurface as a meme – but then found inspiration in the reminder of his darkest days:
“Now, when I see that image of me in my red t-shirt, a rare smile on my face, I am reminded of my struggle. My endurance and my perseverance in the face of all kinds of demons. Some within. Some without.
“The first time I saw this meme pop up in my social media feed, I have to admit, it hurt to breathe. But as with everything in life, I get to assign meaning. And the meaning I assign to this/my image is Strength. Healing. Forgiveness…Of myself and others.”
Miller concluded by encouraging those who are suffering to seek help and offering a list of websites that can provide assistance.
This, of course, isn’t the first time that the actor has been praised for using his personal struggles to inspire to others.
Miller came out as gay in 2013 after spending most of his public life in the closet.
Then, as now, he was hailed for his powerful words and the example he set for young fans.
Like all actors, Miller has no obligation to be so open about the difficulties he’s endured – but there are certainly many who appreciate it.
Friday, September 11, 2015
Nicole Arbour Fired from Movie Due to "Cruel Fat-Shaming Video"
You know what they say about Karma, right?
YouTube star Nicole Arbour came under major fire last week for posting a video that called out fat people, saying in the footage that body shaming does not exist and that obese individuals should just shut up and work out.
The video was removed by YouTube for a brief period of time before being reinstated.
Many (including THG) were appalled by Arbour’s comments, but believed she should be permitted to make then. Freedom of speech and all.
But what goes around often comes around… and director Pat Mills says he’s dropped Arbour as a choreographer from his upcoming movie due to her controversial viewpoint.
“She seemed like a perfect fit for the project. I shared the script with her,” Mills tells Zap2It.
“She said she dug it and was excited to come on board…and then a crazy thing happened on Saturday – I saw something on the Internet that made me never want to see her again.”
The film, titled “Don’t Talk to Irene,” centers on 16-year old who dreams of being a cheerleader but who is bullied for being fat.
So, yeah. It’s not hard to see why Arbour didn’t make sense for the project.
“I’m gay, I was bullied a lot as a kid,” Mills adds.
“I’m no stranger to ridicule and loneliness. [Her video] is an unfunny and cruel fat-shaming video that guises itself about being about ‘health.’ It’s fat phobic and awful…I was so upset I was shaking.”
That pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?
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