Sam Frost is fed up.
The 26-year-old was enjoying a day at the beach with her sister and niece over the long weekend. As many people enjoying some fun in the sun would do, she shared a photo on social media.
“Long weekend with my sister,” she captioned the image that showed her lounging on the sand and smiling at the camera. She looks relaxed. Happy. But as Sam said on her 2Day FM radio show with Rove McManus this morning, her good mood didn’t last long.
It didn’t take long for people to post nasty comments, which Sam called “appalling”.
“The comments that I received were absolutely appalling,” she said. “People were saying I looked disgusting and gross and that I was a bad role model because I’m so thin.” Some commenters went as far as to suggest that Sam’s apparent weight-loss must be the result of an eating disorder.
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You should be able to post a pic of yourself having fun in a bikini without attracting trolls when you're a public figure, sad fact is that's unlikely. Any good PR person would tell Sam that, but any publicity is good publicity eh...? This was a planned outcome, does Sam & Co. take us all for fools?
Body shamers and skinny shamers need to stop hating on people with good bodies. There obvs just jealous that they aren't skinny. Skinny people work hard and are careful about what they eat and deserve the bodies they have. The haters should do the same and stop shaming and hating on us.
People can be skinny for all sorts of reasons. Some do work hard for it, true. Some people are naturally skinny, and can eat what they want, not work out, and stay the same weight. Some people are skinny because they are suffering from terrible, destructive eating disorders. People should absolutely stop judging and body shaming, no question. But skinny doesn't always equal healthy. And a 'good body' - a very subjective concept - doesn't have to mean 'skinny'.
Or you could get extremely skinny through an autoimmune disease called achalasia. I have that, and prior surgery it meant that the lowest portion of my oesophagus was so narrow that I couldn't get food down. I effortlessly lost 16kg in a very short period of time. Ended up with a BMI of 16 and my periods stopped. That was not fun and I was extremely ill. Whilst being extremely skinny.