Social media can make or break you. It can make you forget your life and start living according to the standards of other people. We have seen people like Bahati and Otile brown changing hairstyles simply because of social media pressure.
Popular radio personality Lynda Nyangweso is an example of people who have suffered in the hands of online bullies because of her body size. Her Instagram page was recently filled with trolls from people body-shaming her after she shared a picture while in a swimsuit.
She narrates an emotional story of how online bullies ganged up to body shame her after she shared a picture of herself and her family in a vacation.
Linda is plus size woman with one kid and a husband. She says that she posted the vacation picture not knowing that online bullies would attack her to a point of sending private messages to her husband, talking ill about her body size.
Here is a photo of Lynda Nyangweso in a bikini.
This photo went viral and some idle bullies took it further to sent private messages to her husband- Lance Osiro speaking ill about her!
Thank God the husband is blind to all the negativity and would not bother to respond to them. Furthermore, he fell in love with Lynda while she was still a plus size!
Lynda says that her husband is the most amazing man who has been blind about her body weight.
She revealed that she grew up overweight and it was a real struggle. It is not something that started the other day as many bullies think. She grew up like that.
Lynda says that the only thing that prevented her from committing suicide at a young age, was the thought that her mother would never find a coffin where she would fit in.
I remember I could not eat in the presence of people, I started eating from the toilet because i was afraid of what people could think if they saw her eating.
Lynda narrates in a video.
She explains how online bullies deemed her unworthy of being a mother, because of her body looks.
Here is her story;
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After Lynda shared her story, Many people have come out defending her. Some cursing the body shamers who were sending Direct Messages to her husband.
Linda Nyangweso stay strong.
Body shaming is a bad thing, ain’t cool.
Whoever standardized beauty, I don’t know.I grew up seeing my father and uncles boast of whose wife had added more weight during get-togethers*.
The winner was praised for taking the best care of his wife. pic.twitter.com/Ce277ziJrp
— 4TH ESTATE (@4THESTATE3) 17 July 2019
I’m certain the people who dm’d Linda nyangweso’s man that she’s fat are women . I don’t think any nigga has time to do that
Kamati ya roho chafu
— 4TH ESTATE (@4THESTATE3) 17 July 2019
So a grown ass man/woman goes to Linda Nyangweso’s Hubby’s DM just to throw shade about her weight?
We really are a depressed generation!
Don’t follow someone on social media if their lifestyle gets you green with envy or a sore online troll. It ain’t worth it sis/bro— WTF (@WithTheFactsKe) 17 July 2019
Linda Nyangweso’s story is sad but it’s not shocking. At least her husband isn’t being pestered to decide who between his family & internet strangers he should pick. These over-entitled, faux intellectual & low EQ, cross-the-line bagas are on every app – even twitter.
— Ramapithecus (@RamzZy_) 17 July 2019
I watched Linda Nyangweso’s IG TV video and honestly it’s plainly stupid and rude to DM her husband talking about her body and worse still about her child, its not your place or your business…sigh.. that girl is one of the most calm people you will ever meet..giver her a break
— aleckie ronald (@SirAlexas) 17 July 2019
People went to even DM Linda Nyangweso’s husband trash opinions about her body and other mean stuff?
Honestly shame on you and be better!
— . (@Joykwendo) 16 July 2019
Im so sad right now.why do bullies still exist. It is very wrong to negatively comment on someones body physique..we are all Gods Images and we all have right to post our own bodies on our own social media a/cs.Linda Nyangweso should never feel sorry for posting her own body in
— Esther® (@MissIvui) 16 July 2019