Lesego Legobane, otherwise known as ThickLeeyonce, has found herself on the receiving end of backlash for ironically body-shaming other women.
Who is ThickLeeyonce?
The accusations thrown at the plus-size activist are astounding, to say the least. Considering, her rise to social media fame is owed to her fearless stance on body positivity.
Hailing from Potchefstroom, in the North West, ThickLeeyonce is seen by many as a beacon of hope for women struggling in a world that doesn’t accept anything outside of a size 28 waistline.
She flaunts her hips, potbelly and thunderous thighs and oozes a greater concentration of sex appeal than many women deemed ‘weight appropriate’ by the mainstream beauty and cosmetics industry.
Here’s why she’s accused of body-shaming slim women
However, on Tuesday, the tide seemed to turn against the 21-year-old. A now-deleted comment she made on a tweet posted by Glamour UK about an inclusive body positivity movement drew ire from women who felt that she was body-shaming slim women.
ThichLeeyonce rebutted to the backlash, claiming that she’s merely stating facts that “the body positivity movement is being hijacked by people who are already accepted in society and subsequently pushing out the people it was originally meant for which is fat people.”
Her cries fell on deaf ears, as more users came forward with their opinions on the plus-size activist’s ironic views on slim women.
Even worse, users dug up old tweets where she explicitly referred to slim women as “skinny bitches whose thighs don’t touch.”
Regardless, ThickLeeyonce maintained that her stance on the body positivity movement was not a slight to slim women.
“Once again, it’s not an attack on anyone’s body type, the same way as BLM isn’t a way of saying that any other life doesn’t matter. I dunno how else to explain it,” she wrote.
This one might just need a swift PR cleanup before it gets any worse than it already is.