TLC's Whitney Way Thore claps back after being trolled over lingerie photos: 'Am I not allowed to feel sexy?'
Whitney Way Thore hit out at the trolls who criticized her over a series of pictures she posted on Instagram where she was posing in red lingerie and other photos where she was snapped in a bathtub.
The 'My Big Fat Fabulous Life' star, 35, who has been vocal about promoting her message of body acceptance and body positive image, clapped back at those suggesting her dressing style was inappropriate.
"A few days ago, I posted an image of me in lingerie — a not-sheer or revealing babydoll, to be exact — and I got a lot of comments asking what my dad would think," she wrote in another post where she's once again posing in a bathtub.
"I am THIRTY-FIVE! The lingerie showed much less skin than a bikini, which I post pictures of me wearing often," she continued. "So what makes people uncomfortable about this? Is it that any kind of lingerie implies that I feel sexy? Am I not allowed to?"
She also responded to comments on the picture of her in the bathtub suggesting she should leave such sights only for the eyes of her fiancé Chase Severino, who had proposed to her in Paris this past October.
"Yesterday, I posted an image of me in this same bathtub, stretching my leg, and the same kind of comments ensued," she wrote. "Again, nothing 'indecent' was exposed, yet I was told to 'save it' for my fiancé."
"Luckily, my fiancé is not under the illusion that he's the first person to see me naked, and he couldn't care less about me saving these images for him (he has me in real life, remember?)."
She went on to reiterate how one's dressing style was their choice and that nobody should be shamed just because anonymous people online feel it's "attention-seeking" or "too provocative".
"Some of y’all are really out here thinking my father and my fiancé own my body! And as someone who is typically in some state of undress on international television (albeit usually a sports bra), it’s kind of wild to me that if there’s any suggestion of *actually* being naked, or a hint of sexuality, it’s suddenly deemed attention-seeking or too provocative," she argued.
"Whether you’re wearing a turtleneck or nothing at all, whether you feel sexy or you don’t, whether you’re in a relationship or you’re not — women are allowed to own their sexuality as a normal part of being human. In my case, let me take baths and wear lingerie, and let me still be smart, valuable, and successful."
"Let women be both," she added.