Steffi Brungs
The RTL presenter defends herself against nasty body shaming
Steffi Brungs
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Comments like “little chubby” or “doesn’t bother you with your double chin” are repeatedly thrown virtually at RTL presenter Steffi Brungs. Now the 34-year-old is publicly defending herself against nasty comments. She shares her experiences with body shaming with GALA.
Steffi Brungs is body shamed almost every day
The RTL face has been in the public eye for more than ten years and is active as a moderator and VIP expert, and has received encouragement from fans for this work. Away from the camera, however, the TV presenter is repeatedly a victim of body shaming, especially on Instagram. Almost every day you get comments that criticize your figure, even suggesting that you are pregnant. Comments that the “Point 6” moderator can “put away quite well”, as she says in a reel on Instagram, but she doesn’t want to let them sit on her for a long time. The 34-year-old is now appealing to her followers on the social media platform.
“How do people get there?”: Steffi Brungs finds clear words
Messages like “You’re already a little chubby”, or “Tighten your clothes. Especially on the upper arms. Don’t you want to lose a few kilos?” and “Does your husband love to lie on fat?” are just some of the nasty comments the journalist has to deal with. In an Instagram reel, the presenter now wants to draw attention to comments that end up below the waistline and, in addition to pictures of her figure, also shows a wealth of criticism of her that she reaches online. For them it is completely incomprehensible that people constantly comment on the weight and body of others. Her appeal to the haters: “Dear people, be nice to each other!”.
In an interview, Stephanie Brungs tells how she deals with nasty comments
Even if the wife of breakfast television presenter Christian Wackert, 34, tries to let body shaming bounce off her – of course it doesn’t go unnoticed by her. “When I read something like that, I have to swallow and I’m shocked at how angry some people can be with people they don’t even know. But I have a very good relationship with my own body and then I don’t question myself, I question people.”she reveals to GALA.
However, she not only experiences body shaming in social networks, but also on the street – but there “packaged in a wannabe compliment”. However, they would also make supposedly nice comments like “you don’t look as fat as you do on TV,” says Steffi Brungs. Particularly shocking: women write most of the negative comments about their bodies. “I was shocked. It’s often women who should know better because they’re adults,” she explains.
Steffi Brungs does not want to stop sharing her everyday life despite body shaming
While colleagues or other celebrities deactivate the comment function of their social media channels after similar comments on the net, this is out of the question for Steffi! She enjoys the exchange with her community and wants to continue to do so – as long as it remains on an equal footing. How the presenter reacts to offensive comments? “I try to take a lot of things with humor, but if the comments are very offensive I report them so as not to give them too much energy.”
She still shows her “problem areas”.
In addition to appealing to her followers to distance themselves from body shaming, the presenter on Instagram also shows ways to conceal her “problem areas”, as she herself calls the sagging skin on her upper arms. “Isn’t that mutually exclusive?” Fans rightly ask themselves. Not for Steffi Brungs: “Clothing contributes an incredible amount to our well-being and when I have a day when I’m bloated, I don’t have to squeeze myself into a tight dress. And I think talking about it with the community is just honest.”