A 25-year-old radio and TV presenter from London has called out
Blac Chyna for using photos of her to promote weight loss supplements on Instagram.
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Jourdan Robson-Lawrence, who appeared on a tv show called MTV Beach Body SOS last year, said that she was bombarded with messages from friends telling her that she had been featured on Blac Chyna's Instagram page. In a now-deleted post, the Londoner could be seen on a post that linked through to another account, one that is associated with
weight-loss, in the caption.
The account that Blac Chyna had linked to appeared to initially change its name to @2018fitness_ but it has now been deleted.
A link in the bio of the account took users through to an apparently viral story by a writer called Suzanna Pischner, who doesn't have a presence online apart being associated with these products. However, on the site, Pischner encouraged viewers to buy the slimming pills and offered more before and after photos.
“Throughout the whole day, people kept tagging me in Blac Chyna's picture," Robson-Lawrence said.
In order to get Blac Chyna to delete the post, Robson-Lawrence called upon her nearly-17,000 followers to leave comments underneath black Chyna's photos asking her to delete the before and after image.
The presenter says that she was disappointed that Blac Chyna had shared the images to her 14 million followers. "People are so impressionable these days especially from what they see on social media.... My biggest thing is staying true to myself. It's so easy to go out there and get surgery to look a certain way. There's so much pressure to keep up with appearances," she said.
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She added: "I wanted to show people you can eat [well], exercise and get the body that you want without doing those things not that I have anything against people doing that [surgery]."
Despite the fact that it went up on her profile, Robson-Lawrence said that she doesn't blame Chyna for the post: "It's obviously not her fault, she doesn't sit there and vent out whether these pictures are legitimate or if these have gone through that process."
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She went on to say: "Given the fact she probably would have been paid for it and had seen the comments telling her to remove it, common curiosity would want you to message that person and say, 'Sorry, I had no idea'. I just know how I would behave in that situation."
Instead of blaming the reality star, Robson Lawrence said that the fault lies with the company. "The company itself that she was promoting - it was weight loss pills and supplements: 'You take these for a certain amount of days and you can get the body that you want,' and it's really upsetting because I worked my backside off to shed weight just for it to be completely disregarded in that way and used in that nature it was offensive," she said.
She also tweeted the whole ordeal online, posting screenshots of the 'completely unprofessional' interactions that she had with the company.
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She said: "I was shocked. I wasn't expecting them to reply in the way they did and there was no remorse and they told me they would continue to use my images".
