Amber Rose recalls distressing Instagram abuse from misogynistic trolls during relationship with Wiz Khalifia
Author, model and ‘feminist hero’ explains how abuse peaked during her relationship with the rapper
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Your support makes all the difference.Amber Rose says the abuse she received on social media amid the breakdown of her marriage to Wiz Khalifa led to her identifying as a feminist.
The model described how months of misogynistic comments on Instagram, some of which also suggested Khalifa had been unfaithful, moved her to become a feminist during an interview with Paper magazine.
“He would have pictures of all these women all over him… and then I would post a picture of me and my son. And people would be like, ‘Does your son know that his mother’s a wh*re?’.
"People are like, 'Wiz is out f***ing mad bad bitches and you're at home crying over him because he's the best thing that f*cking ever happened to you and now you're just a fat, bald-headed single mother and no one will ever love you.' So yeah, I guess months of seeing sh*t like that, I was just like, 'I can't live like this. There's something wrong.'"
Rose detailed how when she was just 13 or 14 a boy at her school put “his penis in my face”, which she says led to her being bullied and “slut shamed”.
“I was so young. I fell into a depression. Everyone hated me. I was the school slut.”
Rose has been outspoken on the double standards placed on women for expressing sexuality.
After criticising her former boyfriend Kanye West for “slut-shaming” her in a radio interview, she organised a “Slut Walk” in Los Angeles and founded the Amber Rose Foundation which aims to encourage women’s empowerment and combat victim blaming.
West infamously told an interviewer he “took 30 showers” before beginning his relationship with Kim Kardashian because he had dated Rose.
She also took part in a satirical video called the ‘Walk of No Shame’ which poked fun at the stereotype of a journey made home by a woman after spending the night with someone.
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