Supermodel Gigi Hadid has hit back at all those trolls who have body-shamed her for being too thin or skinny. In a series of tweets, the 22-year-old has disclosed how she has been undergoing treatment for Hashimoto’s disease (also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis), which is why her body has been changing drastically.
Addressing all those “determined to come up w why my body has changed over the years”, Hadid – over a five-tweet thread – talks about her struggle with her illness, how she’s notw feeling better and healthier, and most importantly, how she “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.”
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
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
Body-shamers on social media don’t need a reason to pull a woman down by shaming her. Sometimes it’s for apparently being too fat, at other times it’s for being too thin, or too curvy or too flat. Be it a supermodel or not, the fact that someone’s picture is in the social media space seems to automatically open the doors for people to comment on the subject’s body; although, the former have to deal with it in volumes.