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Plus-size blogger Callie Thorpe left devastated after bikini photo gets NINE HUNDRED ‘vile comments’
Size 24 blogger was featured in a Vogue swimwear shoot - but her happy moment was marred by hateful abuse
BLOGGER Callie Thorpe was thrilled when one of her bikini photos was included in a swimwear article on Vogue's website - but her happiness was short lived.
Just days after the size 24 '20-something' appeared on the fashion bible's online pages, she was inundated with hateful abuse.
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Callie has now opened up about her upsetting experience, and admits that she had hoped being included in the article alongside catwalk models such as Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner was a milestone moment for diversity.
Speaking in an online vlog titled Dealing With Online Abuse, Callie said: "It’s the first time I’ve ever seen Vogue feature any diversity really - especially in regards to size.
"I was really proud of it and I still am really proud."
The backlash began when Vogue tweeted a link to the article, which Callie eagerly retweeted.
She added: "To all the people that called me fat, ugly and treated me like trash because of my weight growing up, catch me on Vogue with your Woman Crush Wednesday.”
There was huge interest in Callie's tweet, and she was asked by if she'd like to speak to them about her body positive mindset, and how blogging had helped her love herself.
However, when Callie read the article back, she dipped in to the comments - and discovered almost 1000 cruel comments about her weight.
Explaining on YouTube, Callie said: “I scrolled onto some really nasty comments about me that... They were just so awful that I couldn’t even get them out of my mind.
"There were 900 comments and pretty much all of them were vile - they were violent, abusive comments and it was the worst thing I’ve ever read in the whole five years I’ve been blogging."
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The comment section has now been removed from the article, but Callie claims one of the worst ones was "“Realistically models are meant to be appealing not to make me puke.”
She added: "I couldn’t get it out of my brain. I couldn’t sleep because of some of the things I read about myself.
“I can’t understand how people can be so hateful. I’m very sad at the prospect that people are going through this alone.”
She was also forced to remove the ability to comment on the Instagram picture that was featured in the article.
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In her vlog, Callie calls for attitudes towards online trolls to change, and says it's time to stop letting people get away with it.
She said: "It’s insane to me, we just think that if we call someone a ‘troll’ it makes it okay.
"Some of the stuff these people write is illegal, it’s not even opinion. It’s just violent, nasty shit that no one should ever have to see.
“We can’t just keep pretending that it’s not happening.
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“Please use your voice, please use your report button, please email people in charge and tell them that it’s not acceptable to have comments in a section like that.”
Earlier this year Phillip Schofield was blasted by This Morning viewers for 'fat shaming' a plus size athlete by quizzing about 'still eating doughnuts'.
And we met a mum who shed half her body weight after holiday snaps showed her looking "bigger than the pyramids".
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