A reporter has acquired a present of help from Hollywood stars after responding to body-shaming feedback stay on air.
Leslie Horton, a visitors journalist for the Canadian tv station Global News Calgary, was broadly mentioned on social media after studying out the physique shaming electronic mail throughout one in all her experiences.
She stated: “I’m just gonna’ respond to an email that I just got saying: ‘Congratulations on your pregnancy. If you’re gonna’ wear old bus driver pants, you have to expect emails like this’.
“So thanks for that,” she responded.
“No, I’m not pregnant. I truly misplaced my uterus to most cancers final 12 months. And that is what ladies of my age seem like. So whether it is offensive to you, that’s unlucky.”
“Think about the emails that you send.”
A clip of the 59-year-old’s response went viral on social media and was shared by Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis on Instagram.
Actress Michelle Pfeiffer additionally responded, writing “bravo” with a number of clapping hand emojis.
Ms Horton has been at Global Calgary, a tv station protecting town of Calgary in southern Canada, since 1995.
She advised the Canadian Press she had acquired “nasty” messages from the identical man for the final 4 years.
But she stated she determined to talk out on this event as a result of the e-mail had “crossed my line”.
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“I just thought, you can send me your critiques, you can send me some nasty messages, but you do not get to speak to me inappropriately,” she stated.
“And that had crossed my line. I found this particular message aimed directly at shaming me, humiliating me and embarrassing me and making me feel bad about myself.
“So I stated some phrases. Apparently, they have been coherent. And I completed my visitors report and I walked away.”
Source: information.sky.com”