Last week, Rebecca Adlington, a British Olympic gold medallist in swimming, cried on the reality show, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, because she felt inferior to another contestant, a model called Amy Willerton.
Ms Adlington is 24, with long, blonde hair, blue eyes and not a spare ounce of flesh on her athletic frame. Yet for years, she said, she has suffered cruel taunts about her looks on Twitter (and in one case, from the comedian Frankie Boyle).
Ms Adlington said she was becoming “very, very insecure” because of past attacks: “For me, I was an athlete. I wasn’t trying to be a model, but pretty much every single week on Twitter I get somebody commenting on the way I look.”
Some might say that Ms Adlington should ignore Twitter (she has temporarily left it before), but it seems strange that the solution should be a woman being forced off social media she enjoys rather than her tormentors learning some basic manners.
She should remember, however, that while few of us would feel at our most attractive next to Miss Willerton, 21, one’s bikini-rating and grooming level is not really the most important thing in life. Otherwise, the world would remember Frida Kahlo as the woman who never met a really good “eyebrow technician”, and Marie Curie as a lady who should have tried a leave-in conditioner.
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