Married At First Sight’s Martha Kalifatidis is all about body positivity whether she’s wearing clothes or not, but the 31-year-old influencer has admitted that whenever she uploads a nude photo to Instagram, she sees a dip in her followers.
In a chat with Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O on their KIIS FM breakfast radio show to promote her new reality TV venture on Celebrity Apprentice, the former MAFS bride confessed that her more risque photos aren’t always well-received.
“I lose followers when I post nudes,” Martha said, adding that she doesn’t know why.
“My percentage is like 90 per cent women, I don’t have very many men followers. It’s all girls – I love that,” she added.
The social media influencer went on to describe some of the comments from trolls that she’s received, but went on to say that the negativity won’t stop her from sharing nudes.
“A lot of them are like ‘This is disgusting, put some clothes on, there’s no need to be naked’ and I’m just like ‘This is what I want to post, it’s my platform and I’ll do what I want.'”
Back in August, Martha stunned fans with her most full-frontal photo to date where she posed in a bath with just her hand and crossed legs covering her up.
“Bath water as pure as my soul… flown in from Tasmania!” she captioned the snap, that was taken by her MAFS partner, Michael Brunelli.
Despite receiving negative comments for daring to bare all, Martha was inundated with praise from her followers too.
“This is Amazing, you’re so creative babe.. I love it,” Bachelor in Paradise star Keira Maguire wrote.
“What the world needed right now,” sexologist Chantelle Otten penned.
“It’s Sunday night and I was not ready for this,” another fan remarked.
Both Martha and Michael have previously hit back at online trolls who have commented on their social media posts.
When Martha uploaded a sultry selfie of herself and Michael from their bed, Michael personally replied to the numerous trolls criticising them for sharing a naked photo.
“Seriously!!!! You guys are next level. If a woman was to post a picture of herself breastfeeding it would be taken down immediately but you’re allowed to post pictures like this,” one follower commented to which Michael simply replied with: “Take it up with Instagram” followed by a shrug emoji.
Another follower commented “Have you no shame?”, but the former MAFS groom Michael clapped back: “Zero shame and zero f***s.”
In an Instagram post uploaded in June, Martha hit back at body shamers by posting a photo of herself topless sitting on a bed.
The former MAFS bride revealed that she’d been called “chubby” by someone on Instagram and that the comment “turned into two weeks of stress, self-hatred and unhappiness.”
“My message to you, and the purpose of this post, is that if you’re feeling bad about the snacks you’ve eaten, the workouts you haven’t done and the number on the scale… self loathing won’t fix s***, trust me!” she wrote alongside her post.
“I’m not looking for sympathy or reassurance in the comments (I hate those type of posts!). I want you to know that putting on weight is not the end of the world, and if you have ppl in your life or on social media that have something to say about your weight they best have a set of abs or they can f*** right off!”
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