Chrissy Teigen Takes Down Fat-Shaming Comedian

Chrissy Teigen Takes Down Fat-Shaming Comedian

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Remember when comedian Nicole Arbour hit headlines for her Youtube video against fat-shaming? She had her Youtube account temporarily suspended after posting a video that claimed fat-shaming was "made up by fat people" - which to the surprise of no-one, caused offence.

Now Chrissy Teigen has joined Youtube stars like Grace Helbig in commenting on the video.

In an interview with People Now, Teigen spoke out about the video, saying: "Yes, Nicole, there is such a thing as fat-shaming, and you’re doing it right now."

The model added that her biggest issue was how much attention Nicole got after posting the video:

"We’ve just given her this platform to feel like her opinion does matter, and so no matter if we’re talking negatively about it or positively, she’s winning. So that’s the worst part about it."

Chrissy has a point - but what with all the other Youtubers speaking out against the video, here's hoping that the furore made people more aware of the problem with body-shaming than ever.

Earlier, we wrote...

Comedian Nicole Arbour had her Youtube channel temporarily suspended after posting a fat-shaming video that complained about the role she says overweight people play in America's obesity crisis.

Arbour posted a video ranting about overweight people on Thursday, saying things like "Fat-shaming is not a thing" and"Fat people made that up."

She added: "If we offend you so much that you lose weight, I'm OK with that," Arbour said. "I'll sleep at night."

Unsurprisingly, many members of the online community did not react positively, and while Arbours subscriber count went up, she disabled comments on her video.

Youtube star Grace Helbig even hit back with a "response video", saying "To me, it looks like you're using a controversial, personal subject to leverage subscribers and attention in a really negative way, which really bums me out because comedy can really be amazingly powerful and positive".

Shortly after Arbour's video attracted half-million views, she says her entire YouTube channel was** **temporarily shut down, and that she received an email from Google, You Tube's owner, warning her about violating its terms.

She claimed she was "the first comedian in the history of @YouTube to be #censored."

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