A French influencer denounces the online harassment she suffers because of her hair on her belly

“Today, we are going to read nasty comments about my hair”, announces Mara Lafontan in a video posted on her TikTok account.

Indeed, the 27-year-old French influencer has become the target of fierce criticism since she appeared in an advertising campaign for a swimsuit brand.

The mistake she would have made?

Dare to strike a pose with your down on your stomach.

Listing the most offensive comments she has read under a photo of the shooting posted on Facebook, the young woman wanted to denounce this online harassment by speaking in front of the camera to her detractors.

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"It's just my body"

“There is nothing beautiful”, “yuck”, “even after a pregnancy, my belly is prettier”, “those disgusting hairs”, she quotes in particular among the many clamors against her.

"It's disgusting.

Next step, back to nature... Let's stop toothbrushes and toothpaste and have our teeth rotten!

"It's not at all seller, I'm sorry, I'm for inclusion but there frankly, no!", Launches another.

Someone even insinuates that “the person in this photo may be a trans man”.

The former model wanted to denounce this "correlation between hair and men", but also the link between hairiness and cleanliness: "There is nothing to do with hygiene, the hair is not dirty", she tells her 426 thousand followers on TikTok.

Today, I don't care anymore.

I wax whenever I want.

If I don't feel like it for three months, I don't wax for three months and that doesn't prevent me from going out in a dress.

Mara Lafontan, influencer

As for those who accuse the young woman of having “faked” the photo, she retorts: “It is possible to have hair in this place and it does not matter.

I'm not sick, it's not faked, it's just my body.

"They called me 'the monkey', the 'Cro-Magnon woman'"

The French influencer also confided in the conflicting relationship she has had in the past with this physical characteristic.

“I am very hairy by nature and I obviously suffered a lot from it in my childhood.

They called me “the monkey”, the “Cro-Magnon woman””, she testifies in video.

Later, Mara Lafontan endured the same pressure during her fashion career: “I was a model for eight years.

I was dragged with a laser, I was asked to wax my arms, etc... I was fed up," she continues, assuring that this period is over: "Today, I don't have any nothing more to do.

I wax whenever I want.

If I don't feel like it for three months, I don't wax for three months and that doesn't prevent me from going out in a dress.

And from time to time, I say to myself "hey, I want to", so I wax.

It's that simple.

I don't hurt myself anymore."

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Mara Lafontan guarantees that the swimwear brand for which she was photographed was perfectly informed of this choice: "I had told them that I had down from the navel to the pubis and that I did not intend to remove it", she specifies.

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The brand also defended its ambassador on Instagram: “We are committed to celebrating women as they are, to representing all bodies in all their diversity.

Through our campaigns we honor the choices of each, without distinction”, can we read in a comment pinned under the publication.