“It looks like a turkey from Pierre Dodoux.” Lena Mahfouf reveals the harsh comments received after her appearance in Cannes.

“She shouldn’t be wearing clothes like that with her legs,” “Too big thighs, too bad,” “Looks like a Pierre Dodoux turkey wrapped in netting,” “She’s put on weight,” “Too many burgers.” ” … Here are some of the thousands of unsavory comments that can be read on social media about Lena Mahfouf, a French YouTuber better known by the pseudonym “Léna Situations”. Indeed, the 25-year-old has been the subject of a barrage of criticism from netizens ever since she walked up the steps at the Cannes Film Festival this Monday, May 22, 2023.

The charge? The influencer with 4 million Instagram followers “dared” to wear a Vivienne Westwood dress to the premiere of the film, showing off her bare legs. Idol. It was enough for her detractors to go wild on Twitter and Instagram, with well-placed mockery and humiliation aimed at her physical appearance.

Grossophobia

Later in the evening, Lena Mahfouf posted several screenshots of these unsavory comments on her Instagram account before sending a heartfelt response to their authors. “I’ve always been more or less comfortable with my body…until the last few months. I have gained weight, I know it, my morphology has changed, I know it, but the Internet realized it before me and wants to share it,” he wrote in an article published very early on the social network. Tuesday morning, May 23.

The Parisian, who has already been the victim of online harassment several times, claimed to have remembered her desire to promote charity and “body positivity” in her communications. to show an honest and unaltered image, the real thing. I try to make my platforms a place where I feel confident enough to share sides of myself with 4 million people that I’m not 100% at peace with. I’m trying to speak only to a community that also wants to be positive and live life’s moments to the fullest,” he continues, regretting that his message was clearly not conveyed to everyone.

As soon as I no longer fit into my 36, I get, “You eat well in the cafeteria” or “Congratulations on the baby.”

Lena Mahfouf (“Lena’s Situations”)

In the video: Lena Situations admits to harassing her and her family for a year

Indeed, the entrepreneur then decries a certain grossophobia around him after his recent weight gain; “From a young age, we have been designed to have an ideal body, an ideal style, so much so that as soon as I no longer fit my 36, I get: “You eat well in the cafeteria” or “Congratulations on the baby,” he complains.

To conclude this series of posts, the content creator shares the latest confidence about his controversial relationship with his character; “I don’t have a conclusion about this yet. This feeling of not being in the right body is a new feeling,” she admits. And to end on a more positive note. “Hopefully the future and hindsight will only get us there love. I, I send you love“.