It looks like Rihanna has responded to a writer who body shamed her in a blog last week.
The article in question was titled ‘Is Rihanna going to make being fat the hot new trend?’, and was written by Barstool Sports writer Chris Spags.
The post discussed Rihanna’s figure and included some ridiculous comments, such as, “A world of ladies shaped like the Hindenburg loaded into one-piece bathing suits may be on the horizon now that Rihanna is traipsing around out there looking like she’s in a sumo suit.”
However, Rihanna has since posted a meme to social media, indirectly acknowledging the article.
The singer posted a picture of rapper Gucci Mane at different weights – one in 2007 and another in 2017.
“If you can’t handle me at my 2007 Gucci Mane / you don’t deserve me at my 2017 Gucci Mane,” the meme read.
Rihanna simply captioned the post with a sad crying emoji.
Naturally, the author of the article was slammed for body shaming Rihanna, with one person commenting, “Barstool has always treated women like s***. It’s gross, but nothing new. There [are] no repercussions [because] this is what the site + readers want.”
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy then issued a statement, insisting that he didn’t think the article “was as bad as many are making it out to be”.
“To be honest I don’t think the blog was as bad as many are making it out to be, but I’ll tell you this. It wasn’t that funny either and I could have told you with absolute certainty that feminists would hate it and use it as an example of ‘there goes Barstool being Barstool again.’
“There are just certain topics that you better nail if you’re gonna write about them because you know they are hot button issues for us. So if you’re gonna blog about Rihanna gaining weight you better be funny as f*** and you better make it bullet proof.”
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