A model was reduced to tears after she was roasted online for posing in a bikini to raise money for the Australian flood crisis.
Phoebe Thompson, 31, shared a racy photo of herself to Instagram on Monday and asked her followers to subscribe to her adult website so she could donate money towards the floods disaster, which has devastated both Queensland and NSW.
On Tuesday. the former Love Island star released a video to her Instagram responding to the outrage she received for the post, with many labelling it ‘tone-deaf’.
‘That made me so upset, that made me cry,’ Ms Thompson said in the clip.
A model has been left in tears after she was roasted online for posing in a bikini to raise money for the Australian flood crisis
‘I was literally trying to do the right thing,’ she continued. ‘I’ve got friends and family that are in Queensland who are suffering from these floods.’
Ms Thompson then revealed to her followers that she was able to avoid the floods crisis after she ‘escaped from up north’ and added that it ‘could’ve been me stuck in one of those situations’.
She responded to the backlash she copped from social users by saying the bikini picture was ‘f**king amazing’ and that she felt ‘really good’ when she took it.
On Tuesday, Phoebe Thompson, 31, released a video to her Instagram responding to the outrage she received for the post, with many labelling it ‘tone-death’
‘I was literally trying to do the right thing,’ she continued. ‘I’ve got friends and family that are in Queensland who are suffering from these floods’
‘You can’t bloody win.. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t… I’m emotionally exhausted from social media.’
Ms Thompson later compared the backlash to when American model Kaylen Ward copped criticism after offering nude photos to raise funds for the 2020 Australian bushfires.
Ms Ward eventually raised $500,000 for the disaster.
‘I just think like, if someone’s trying to do something nice then why be mean to them? She obviously had such a pure heart and loved animals, it was really sweet,’ she added.
It was also a similar situation with fellow Queensland influencer Tammy Hembrow who also faced online outrage after trying to raise money for the 2020 bushfires fundraiser by posting a saucy bikini picture.
‘You can’t bloody win.. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t… I’m emotionally exhausted from social media,’ Phoebe said
The former Love Island star told her followers that ‘you can’t bloody win… damned if you do, damned if you don’t’
Ms Thompson later compared the backlash to when American model Kaylen Ward copped criticism after offering nude photos to raise funds for the 2020 Australian bushfires
In the original post, Thompson wrote that she was ‘going to make a donation from my website to flood disaster in Qld… so get SUBSCRIBED’.
But not everyone was impressed, with some suggesting her pledge was self-serving – a claim she strenuously denied.
‘So in other words you want to help but u also want to [be] taken note of and make money through it too,’ one follower complained in a direct message.
‘Just donate the money if you f**king have it,’ they said.
Ms Thompson came under fire for asking people to subscribe to her adult website so she can donate money to Queenslanders affected by the floods
Eight people have died and hundreds have been rescued from floodwaters which have so far damaged at least 19,000 homes and won’t fully recede for days in Queensland and New South Wales.
Major flooding is under way on the Brisbane, Logan, Bremer and Mary rivers, and Warrill Creek after the torrential downpours of the past week.
More than 1.77m of rain fell on Mount Glorious, 1.55m at Pomona on the Sunshine Coast and 1.23m at Upper Springbrook on the Gold Coast in seven days.
Brisbane copped 795mm – the city’s wettest week since records began in 1840 – with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk saying much of the wider region is devastated.
Eight people have died and hundreds have been rescued from floodwaters which have so far damaged at least 19,000 homes and won’t fully recede for days in Queensland and New South Wales
