“Can we STOP with the skinny shaming please?”
Victoria’s Secret model Bridget Malcolm is fed up with strangers being overly critical of her slim physique on social media and has decided to take a stand through her Instagram.
The 23-year-old Australian model wrote an emotional caption alongside a selfie of her slender body posing in a red sports bra, exposing her fit torso with black tights.
“I am extremely fit and healthy and am not in the slightest way anorexic,” Malcolm says.
Curves have become a new norm of sorts in pop culture with celebs flaunting bigger butts and fuller waistlines such as rappers Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea, along with the “Queen of the Selfie” Kim Kardashian, who are all social media mainstays — leading those who praise fuller bodies to turn up their noses at skinnier women.
Fashion retailer Lane Bryant even went so far as to create an “I’m No Angel” campaign which showcases plus-size models who go against the ultra-slim, thin and chiseled Victoria’s Secret “Angels” aesthetic.
“I may not be the curviest,” she adds, “but I am a woman who has every right to look the way I do.”
Last month fellow Australian model Natasha Oakley, from A Bikini A Day, faced criticism over a paparazzi shot of her in a bikini with cellulite.
The 24-year-old told her 1.4 million followers she is “very happy, healthy and proud of my body”.
Here’s more snaps from the Victoria Secret model’s “Angel”-like Instagram:
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