{"id":154729,"date":"2018-02-28T07:47:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154729"},"modified":"2018-02-28T07:47:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T12:47:07","slug":"bullying-belas-belly-her-say-deal-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/28\/bullying-belas-belly-her-say-deal-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullying Bela\u2019s \u2018belly?\u2019 Her say: Deal with it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several netizens chose to laugh at her \u2018protruding belly\u2019 \u2013 but Bela had a real comeback to these nitpickers (Photo<\/a>: @belapadilla\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Actors and actresses are humans and they are not perfect \u2013 this is Bela Padilla\u2019s scream to her ‘body bashers’ after some chose to point out her \u2018belly\u2019 in her bikini shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean. I can get used to this office,\u201d Bela caption on her Instagram post \u2013 as she seemed to enjoy a sunny day at the beach, by the waves and the white sand. A happy post from the 26-year old actress and writer somehow attracted unwanted attention to her exposed stomach.<\/p>\n

Several netizens chose to laugh at her \u2018protruding belly\u2019 \u2013 but Bela had a real comeback to these nitpickers.<\/p>\n

\u201cShocked by the number of comments on my IG post, pointing out that I have a belly,\u201d she took to Twitter.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes I do. It holds in my organs that I need to live. It has a layer of muscles that I worked hard for in the gym and a layer of fat from the food I enjoy to eat,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

She ended by saying, \u201cDeal with it. Plus I\u2019m seated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just when her followers thought her comeback was over, she tweeted in a more serious tone, this time addressing a message to the youth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWould it have made you more comfortable if I edited my photo to perfection? Because I could have easily done that,\u201d Bela wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what message does it send to the younger ones? That our photos are only likeable when we\u2019re perfect in photos? Not from me. Never,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

Bela quickly got the support of more users, who praised her for being real and being an inspiration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been keen on choosing photos to upload on Instagram or on any social media making sure I didn\u2019t look fat or what not. But Bela Padilla chose to upload the photo that made her happy \u2013 despite the belly,\u201d Czarina Rae, Twitter user @ohyeahCzarina said, which got a retweet from the actress herself.<\/p>\n

Another twitter user @luna_wanderlust told Bela, \u201cThanks Bela for the advocacy. Social media has degraded our values so much that we seek for perfection in things that have no value. As clich\u00e9 as it gets, beauty would always start from within. Love yourself people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actors and actresses are humans and they are not perfect \u2013 this is Bela Padilla\u2019s scream to her ‘body bashers’ …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":154733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[22391],"class_list":["post-154729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","tag-bela-padilla","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}