Australian model Rachael Finch has hit out at comments claiming she is underfeeding her children and ‘denying them a childhood’.
The 34-year-old former Miss Universe, who has more than 320,000 Instagram followers, shared a screenshot of a message sent to her by a follower.
The message is scathing about how Rachael parents her two children, eight-year-old Violet and five-year-old Dominic.
The message reads: “Hi Rachael, I’m been following you for years, have bought most of your kissed earth products, however I need to say, what your feeding your kids is a form of child abuse.
“They’re underfed, and extremely underweight. Please feed them more. You are denying them a childhood. I have no doubt Violet will grow up some form of eating disorder with what you feed her.
“I will no longer be purchasing your products, (as great as yet may be).”
It prompted the TV presenter to speak out, sharing the message to her Instagram grid and addressing it in the comments.
“Child abuse. Eating disorder. Underfed,” Rachael commented. “How would you respond? Would you respond? “I feel lucky because I have the emotional support at home to help me deal with these types of comments.
“But for those who don’t this could be dangerous. Despite the fact that this person has no clue about our child’s well-being besides a few food posts I make from time to time, it plays on your thoughts and feelings.
“This post is purely a reminder to think twice before you speak or type. You don’t have to agree with everyone, but you should keep your potentially damaging comments to yourself.
“Spread kindness instead please,” she concluded.
Rachael, who is married to dance Michael Miziner, has previously addressed the comments trolls have made about her children and their bodies.
“I’ve had so many comments like, ‘your kids are too thin, you’re depriving them of a childhood, they’re going to grow with mental disorders, they’re going to hate you when they’re older, why don’t you let them live their life’,” she said on her It’s All Her podcast in April last year.
“They see me cooking stuff at home and because I like to share a lot of the healthy versions of what I make they think that my children are deprived and it’s really sad. At the start … for days it left me just dumbfounded at how people could be so nasty.”
Rachael has previously revealed that her children rarely eat sugar or processed foods.
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