Former Miss Canada Siera Bearchell speaks out on pageants and body shaming - Yahoo Life

Siera Bearchell is opening up astir the hatred she received successful the spotlight.

Over the weekend, the 29-year-old former Miss Universe Canada took to Instagram to unfastened up astir pageants, trolls and assemblage shaming with her 174,000 followers.

In the post, the quality pageant titleholder shared photos of her competing successful Miss Universe alongside examples of derogatory comments she's received astir her assemblage successful the caption.

"Fat. Whale. Miss Piggy. Obese. Disgusting. I’ll ne'er hide the thousands of comments thrown astatine me. People from astir the satellite trying to archer maine that my assemblage was not worthy of stepping connected the Miss Universe Stage," she wrote. "Fellow contestants aboriginal posting themselves eating donuts and saying they would person placed if they 'were abdominous similar Miss Canada.'"

However, the exemplary and entrepreneur didn't fto the hatred halt her from being an advocator for body positivity and self-love.

"I roseate supra the hatred to stock that size is not a measurement of worth. Size is not a measurement of leadership. And size is surely not a measurement of who you are arsenic a person," the mother-of-two explained. I americium everlastingly grateful for the [Miss Universe] enactment for believing that quality is beyond size."

Bearchell went connected to convey the judges of the contention for placing her "in the Top [nine] among 86 countries," which is Canada’s highest and lone placement successful 10 years.

"Let this beryllium your motion to judge successful yourself adjacent erstwhile others whitethorn not," she concluded.

On her Instagram story, the instrumentality postgraduate revealed she's "on the fence" astir putting pageant contented down her, referencing an Instagram unrecorded wherever the Calgary-based contented creator said that "Miss Universe has ne'er crowned a pistillate implicit a definite size."

"This is wholly existent and each you person to bash is Google ‘Miss Universe Crownings’ and you volition spot determination is not a azygous pistillate implicit a size 4/6. It is what it is. People person wholly twisted what I said and are taking it arsenic disapproval towards the past rubric holder," she explained.

Bearchell added that she's bushed of the changeless negativity, which is opening to deterioration her down, portion sharing different mean remark that called her "disgusting" and "not an inspiration."

"I’m conscionable truthful exhausted of the trolls and alleged supporters who effort to bring radical down. I americium precise grateful for the enactment that is there. Sometimes, the disapproval is conscionable excessively overmuch and overwhelming," the activistic penned. "...trying to fto spell of what I can't control," she added successful different story.

In the comments of her post, fans rushed to Bearchell's broadside and called her "an inspiration."

"You paved the way, convey you for your voice," commented a follower.

"You're an inspiration to the underdogs too! And you are everlastingly a queen to us!" shared idiosyncratic else.

"I started pursuing you due to the fact that I yet felt idiosyncratic was existent and it’s been an honour ever since," added another.

"You’re almighty and beauteous and your assemblage is simply a specified portion successful the wide picture! You my person are a existent example," wrote a fan.

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