New York Daily News

Cruelly weight-shamed beauty gets her revenge

- Ndillon@nydailynew­s.com

like he didn’t remember her, but “I remembered always.”

The Democratic nominee called out Trump’s comments about Machado during the debate at Hofstra University and ended with a warning for the former reality TV star.

“And he called this woman ‘Miss Piggy.’ Then he called her ‘Miss Housekeepi­ng,’ because she was Latina,” Clinton said. “Donald, she has a name: Her name is Alicia Machado.”

Then she brought the hammer down.

“She has become a U.S. citizen, and you can bet she’s going to vote this November,” Clinton said.

On Tuesday, her campaign also unveiled an ad in which Machado recounts her ordeal with Trump.

Speaking mostly in Spanish, Machado recalled being an impression­able “girl” from Venezuela who lived in fear of the powerful businessma­n running the elite pageant.

In one well-documented public shaming, Trump invited media outlets to watch her work out in New York.

“This is somebody who likes to eat,” he said inside the gym as Machado did calistheni­cs for the cameras.

Machado said she never spoke to Trump again once her term ended. Though the experience left her struggling with anorexia, bulimia and years of psychologi­cal trauma, she went on to become a successful TV actress, businesswo­man, activist and mom, she said.

“I was working really hard to forget that moment, to overcome my eating disorders. I was in the middle of that problem for three or four years,” she said. “I was trying to forget . . . that bad experience with Mr. Trump.”

Then Trump rose to the top of the Republican ticket, and she had to speak up, she said.

“I never thought and never imagined that 20 years later I would be in this position, in this moment like watching this guy doing stupid things, stupid comments — so misogynist, male chauvinist,” she said.

On Tuesday, Trump even doubled down on his treatment of Machado in an interview with “Fox & Friends.”

“She gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem,” he said.

Machado said now that she’s a newly minted American citizen, she will cast her vote for Clinton.

“Mrs. Clinton, she’s the right person,” she said.

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