Hate mail sickens plus-size model

POPULAR photographer and plus-size model Lesego “Thickleeyonce” Legobane is literally sick of the social media hate messages following her SA Fashion Week appearance on Tuesday.

She cried so hard that her mother had to help clean up vomit from the floor.

Thickleeyonce‚ who is a strict advocate for body positivity‚ was one of several models who took to the runway for the Woolworths fashion show.

However‚ a video of her walking on the runway was ridiculed on Twitter‚ with users body-shaming her and complaining that she was walking like someone on the way to a spaza shop.

Reacting to the comments‚ Thickleeyonce said she did not usually care what people thought but cried after reading the hatred aimed at her.

“I usually don’t give a f**k‚ but tonight‚ I am sad. On one of my best days‚ I am sad. For the first time in four years‚ I cried. I read the comments and cried. It wasn’t the biggest gig I got‚ but it’s the one that made me happy‚” she wrote on Twitter.

She later returned to the platform to insist that she had no regrets about being in the show and slammed suggestions she was looking for attention and cashing in on her weight.

“I was body positive before the money came. I was obsessed with myself before the money. The money came because of the selflove. The fact that people believe I wake up wanting to be hated is what weakens me the most. My mother had to clean up my vomit this morning because I cried so much‚ my stomach turned and I got sick‚” she wrote.

Woolworths South Africa were mortified by the backlash and said it would fight against those intent on destroying others through body-shaming

“It is unacceptable that someone would be bullied because of how they look or how they carry themselves. We are mortified by this. We are trying to embrace all women‚ and people are bringing others down. We embrace body positivity and Thickleeyonce embodies that for us.”— DDC