Stacey Solomon condemns 'bullying' magazine after it calls her 'boring, desperate and cheap’
‘Thousands of people disagree with this awful, bullying, insecure pushing journalism and won’t stand for it’
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Your support makes all the difference.Stacey Solomon has heavily reprimanded a magazine for having a negative influence on its readers after it called her “boring”, “desperate” and “cheap” on the cover.
Earlier this week, the Loose Women panellist tweeted a photo of Now magazine’s most recent issue, which featured photos of her on the front alongside the statement: “Why fans are SICK of her.”
Solomon has described the cover as “the meanest thing I’ve ever seen,” and has received an outpouring of support on social media.
Many people have expressed their immense disapproval of the magazine, with some people claiming that covers like these encourage young girls and women to develop insecurities.
“And they wonder why so many girls/women hate themselves when faced with covers like this on the magazine rack…?” one person wrote.
“It’s like you’re promoting bullying and endorsing using these terms to describe people in the real world.”
Actress Nicola Thorp called out the editor of the magazine on Twitter, criticising the use of the term “revenge body” on the cover.
“You’re the reason our nieces and daughters and friends are suffering from low self-esteem and eating disorders,” she wrote.
She continued, stating that there’s “no such thing as a revenge body.”
Solomon has said that the magazine needs to be held accountable for the cover and for continually feeling the need to “tear people down in a bullying manner.”
She also explained that it’s not just the cover of the magazine that can have a harmful effect on the confidence of its readers, but also its contents.
“It goes from telling girls to get a revenge body (because it must be their body that caused any upset in their lives and changing that is the only way to fix it) to Stacey’s celebrating her natural body and we are bored of it,” she wrote.
A recent study discovered that nearly one in four 14-year-old girls has self-harmed in the past year, with one young person telling the Children’s Charity: “Feeling not pretty enough or good enough as other girls did contribute towards my self-harming.”
Solomon expressed her appreciation for the support that she’s received, stating that it demonstrates how “thousands of people disagree with this awful, bullying, insecure-pushing journalism and won’t stand for it.”
HuffPost UK reports that a spokesperson for Now magazine has apologised to Solomon, stating: “The story featured in this week’s issue of Now magazine regarding Stacey Solomon was written on the basis of social media comments about Stacey and is not the opinion of Now magazine.
“As a publication, we simply aim to inspire debate amongst our readers about their favourite celebrities and TV stars, including Stacey.
“We do not encourage or condone bullying in any form. We apologise to Stacey for any distress our story may have caused."
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