The influencer was called names after climbing the stairs. She responded by saying she wanted to refuse the dictate of the “ideal body”.
By Marc Fourny
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EAnother outburst of hatred on the Internet… This time, it’s the turn of Léna Mahfouf, known as Léna Situations on the networks, to pay the price. His crime? Having dared to show its forms by climbing the famous steps last Monday at the Cannes Film Festival. We saw the content creator, regularly followed by 4 million fans on Instagram, put on a show in Chopard jewelry and a vintage Vivienne Westwood dress, already worn by Naomi Campbell in the 1990s, displaying her bare legs, a plunging neckline and a hair-raising train.
It was enough to see some denigrate it by criticizing its morphology: “Too big thighs, too bad”, “It looks like a turkey from Pierre Dodu”, “Too many burgers”, could we read in particular on the networks social… The next day, Léna Mahfouf, who has already been the victim of regular attacks several times, decided to reply on her Instagram account. “For two years, I made the choice to no longer use filters in order to show an honest and unmodified image, something real,” she explains. Ever since I was young, we have been projected so much about an ideal body, an ideal style, that as soon as I no longer fit into my 36 I receive You eat well in the canteen Or congratulations on the baby… »
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Accept your faults
And to recognize that she herself sometimes had trouble accepting her body. “I’ve always been more or less comfortable with my body,” she continues. I gained weight, I am aware of it, my morphology has changed, but the Internet realized it before me and wants to share it. “And to call for more benevolence: “I try to make my platforms a place where I feel confident enough to share with 4 million people my facets with which I am not 100% at peace. I try to speak only to a community which is also in this desire to send positive and live the moments of life fully. “And to conclude:” I hope that the future and hindsight will bring us only love. I send you love…”
This is the second time that a wave of hate has swept across the Croisette this year, targeting certain festival-goers. Last week, Anna Biolay, the daughter of Benjamin Biolay, had to face accusations of nepotism and insults about her physique, immediately provoking a reaction from her aunt who split a message to defend the honor and the girl’s talent. “You are simply monstrous”, she launched to the cyberstalkers.
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This time, it’s Bruno Le Maire’s turn to sound the alarm against body shaming. “Total support for Léna Mahfouf, he posted on Instagram. Let’s accept ourselves as we are, let’s be ourselves and proud of it, ”says the Minister of the Economy. And to recall that the rules have now changed: “With the law on commercial influence, influencers and content creators will now have to indicate when their publication has been the subject of a retouch aimed at refining or thickening a silhouette. . “A way to fight against the famous diktats of aesthetics…