Body-shaming on social media: I really thought as a society we were beyond this

Please don’t feed the body-shaming trolls, writes Amanda Cassidy, who points out that much of what is written online about women's bodies would never be said to their faces

Too thin, too fat, too curvy, too muscular, too old… It’s exhausting. It’s embarrassing. Is our sense of self-worth still down to how attractive we are to other people?

Too thin, too fat, too curvy, too muscular, too old. It’s exhausting. It’s embarrassing.

Retailer Marks and Spencer was forced to step in to defend Vogue Williams after she was trolled for being "too thin" while promoting their swimwear range. The Irish mum-of-three was modelling some of her favourite items from the retailer’s summer collection when she was targeted online for "not being representative" of M&S’s regular customers.