Gigi Hadid Slams Body Shamers for Calling Her ‘Too Skinny’
The supermodel who was once called “too curvy” is now being criticized for being too thin.
Gigi Hadid makes millions for her absurdly good looks. So it seemed downright bizarre that she was recently attacked by online “body shamers” who said the supermodel was becoming too thin.
Hadid blasted her critics in a fiery thread of tweets, saying her recent weight loss was caused by her battle with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease.
It appeared that critics who once called her too “curvy” for the runway were now saying she was too skinny. She just can’t win!
For those of you so determined to come up w why my body has changed over the years, you may not know that when I started @ 17 I was not yet diagnosed w/Hashimoto’s disease; those of u who called me “too big for the industry” were seeing inflammation & water retention due to that.
— Gigi Hadid (@GiGiHadid) February 11, 2018
Over the last few years I’ve been properly medicated to help symptoms including those, as well as extreme fatigue, metabolism issues, body’s ability to retain heat, etc … I was also part of a holistic medical trial that helped my thyroid levels balance out.
— Gigi Hadid (@GiGiHadid) February 11, 2018
Although stress & excessive travel can also affect the body, I have always eaten the same, my body just handles it differently now that my health is better. I may be “too skinny” for u, honestly this skinny isn’t what I want to be, but I feel healthier internally and (cont)
— Gigi Hadid (@GiGiHadid) February 11, 2018
(cont) am still learning and growing with my body everyday, as everyone is.
— Gigi Hadid (@GiGiHadid) February 11, 2018
I will not further explain the way my body looks, just as anyone, with a body type that doesnt suit ur “beauty” expectation, shouldnt have to. Not to judge others, but drugs are not my thing, stop putting me in that box just because u dont understand the way my body has matured.
— Gigi Hadid (@GiGiHadid) February 11, 2018
Please, as social media users & human beings in general, learn to have more empathy for others and know that you never really know the whole story. Use your energy to lift those that you admire rather than be cruel to those u don’t.
— Gigi Hadid (@GiGiHadid) February 11, 2018
Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is caused by the immune system attacking the thyroid gland, which damages it and causes it to swell. This leads to a host of hormone imbalances and, yes, weight fluctuation.
Gigi says her “extreme fatigue and metabolism issues” have since leveled out after being “properly medicated.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/Be_KveGAwIK
Her metabolism sorting itself out would explain why she appeared slimmer at the recent Jeremy Scott and Bottega Veneta shows during New York Fashion Week. She looked fine to us!
It’s not the first time she had taken on the trolls. Back in 2015, she sounded off about online comments that said she was too shapely to model.
“I have a butt, I have thighs, but I’m not asking for special treatment,” she wrote.
https://www.instagram.com/p/8LCm44jCcx
This whole thing is just absurd. See what we mean, here:
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