In a series of videos posted on social media, former model Mara LaFontaine is condemning hateful comments about her lower abdomen hairline.
“Today we’re going to read nasty comments about my hair,” says Mara LaFontaine in a video posted on her TikTok account. Indeed, the 27-year-old French influencer has become the target of fierce criticism since appearing in an advertising campaign for a swimwear brand. Was he wrong? Dare to pose on your stomach. Listing the most offensive comments she had read under a photo of the shooting on Facebook, the young woman wanted to denounce this online harassment by speaking to her abusers on camera.
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“It’s just my body”
“There is nothing beautiful”, “a horse”, “even after pregnancy, my belly is more beautiful”, “those disgusting hairs” he specifically quotes among the many noises directed at him. “It’s disgusting. The next step, back to nature… Let’s stop using toothbrushes and toothpastes and having our teeth rot. “It’s not a sales pitch at all, sorry. I’m all for inclusion, but frankly, no.” another one kicks in. Someone even speculates that “the person in this photo might be a trans man.”
The former model wanted to denounce this “hair-to-men ratio”, but also the link between hair loss and cleanliness; “It has nothing to do with hygiene, hair is not dirty,” she tells her 426,000 followers on TikTok.
Today I don’t care anymore. I wax whenever I want. If I don’t feel like it for three months, I don’t wax for three months, and that doesn’t stop me from going out in a dress.
Mara LaFontaine, influencer
As for those who accuse the young woman of “faking” the photo, she counters. “You can have hair here and it doesn’t matter. I’m not sick, it’s not fake, it’s just my body.
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“They called me ‘monkey’, ‘Cro-Magnon woman’
The French influencer also confided in his previous controversial relationship with this physical feature. “I’m very hairy by nature, and I obviously suffered from it a lot in my childhood. They called me “monkey”, “Cro-Magnon woman”, he testifies in the video.
Later, Mara Lafontaine faced the same pressure in her fashion career. “I was a model for eight years. They dragged me with lasers, asked me to wax my arms, etc… I was fed up, he continues, assuring that this period has passed. “I have nothing more to do today. I wax whenever I want. If I don’t feel like it for three months, I don’t wax for three months, and that doesn’t stop me from going out in a dress. And every now and then I tell myself “hey, I want to” so I wax. It’s that simple. I don’t hurt myself anymore.”
Mara Lafontaine assures that the swimwear brand she posed for was perfectly informed about this choice; “I told them that I had gone down from the nipple to the pubis and that I did not intend to remove it,” he elaborates.
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The brand also defended its ambassador on Instagram. “We have a responsibility to celebrate women as they are, to represent all bodies in all their diversity. Through our campaigns, we respect everyone’s choice without discrimination,” we can read in the comment posted below the publication.
Source: Le Figaro
