Miss SA To Take Legal Action Against City Press For ‘Body shaming’ Article. The Miss South Africa platform has already been through enough drama as it is but it looks like it’s far from over as the organization is now dragging a certain news publication to court.
After the City Press printed an article titled “Is She Or Not” on Sunday, speculating that Miss SA 2019 Winner Sasha Lee Olivier is pregnant based on a photo that was posted on Instagram.
The Organization has now released a statement stating when a journalist from the publication reached out for comment, it was clearly stated that the pregnancy rumors were false but to their surprise the news paper turned the statement in to a debate piece.
“The Miss South Africa Organisation replied, stating categorically that Sasha-Lee is not pregnant. It was left at that. We did not condone entering into any salacious debate about Sasha-Lee’s body given the degrading and discriminatory intentions of this article,” the organisation said in a statement” said the platform.
The platform has now cleared the air and is now taking legal action against the publication on the bases of the article being a malicious intent to body shame Olivier which deeply hurt her feelings.
“The article is pure body shaming, implying that if Sasha-Lee is not pregnant then she is fat. Let us put it on the record that Sasha-Lee Olivier is a real person and is deeply hurt by what appeared” said the platform
Sasha has also replied to the drama in an Instagram video stating that she is disappointed that at such a critical time for women, we choose to break each other down then to built one another.
She also confirmed that she is not pregnant and that she is happy and comfortable in her own skin.
“I know I’m not pregnant. I know who I am. I am comfortable in my skin” she said.
Sasha captioned her video stating that no matter what happens, nobody can change what God has planned for you
“Truth is – that what they say about you will never outweigh what God has spoken over your life. Keep your head up Queen” she wrote.
By Sinakho Mandla
