Love Island's Shaughna Phillips has hit back at a nasty troll who told her to "lose weight".
The new mum, who welcomed her daughter Lucia in April, was targeted by mean social media users after she shared snaps of herself in a swimsuit during a holiday in Mallorca.
One user messaged her saying, "I think it's time you lose weight" but the 28 year old star didn't let this slide and reposted the cruel comment, stating that she "did not care" what people thought about her post-baby body.
In a now-deleted Instagram story, Shaughna said she had nothing to be ashamed of and is comfortable with her changing body.
She later removed the post for fear of getting into trouble for naming and shaming the mean troll.
This isn't the first time Shaughna has had to hit back at vocal trolls online. Earlier this year, she was criticised for driving with her baby daughter in a car seat in the passenger seat of the car.
Shaughna has now spoken up about the criticism she received, insisting that she did nothing wrong.
She told Heat magazine: "There was one comment about having Lucia in the car seat in the front. Now, I'm always on my own with her and I had a little bit of postnatal anxiety, so there's no way I could have driven with her in the back."
"It would have been more dangerous than her being in the front. I found out that you can take a baby in the front if you turn the airbag off. So, that's what I do." And some woman said, 'That is so bad, just because it's legal doesn't mean it's OK.' And I replied, 'Well, how is she going to be able to turn the radio over if she doesn't sit in the front?'"
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents gives advice on travelling safely with a newborn child – and confirms what Shaughna suggests. On their website, they advise: "If the car does not have airbags in the front, or if they can be deactivated, or if the car has sensors which switches the airbag off automatically when you fit a child seat, then you can legally carry a rearward facing baby seat in the front."
Shaughna previously spoke about her birth experience and said it had not gone as she had initially planned. She told fans: "I started pushing at 6:30pm for over an hour but Lucia would come down and slide straight back up and her heart rate was rocketing."
"I then went in for emergency forceps but as soon as they put them on her head, she flipped around so they had to stop and go ahead with the emergency C-section. I was really sad I wasn't able to give birth how I originally planned, but I always said I'll have whatever birth needed to get here, and that was the most important thing to me."
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