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Iggy Azalea’s Openness About Her Body And Plastic Surgery Does Not Excuse Leaking Her Topless Pics

Iggy has deactivated her social media since her leaked nudes have gone viral online.

UPDATE May 28, 2:45pm

Iggy Azalea has released a statement regarding the photo leak in a since-deleted note to her followers.

“Today I’m a ball of negative emotions. I feel blindsided, embarrassed, violated, angry, sad and a million other things. Not solely because I did not consent to this — but also because of the vile way people have reacted,” she wrote.

She specifically calls out the men taking things further by “sharing their thoughts and fantasies in regards to my body”.

Read the full statement below.

https://twitter.com/Pop_Alarms/status/1133137211560382466

Original Article:

Iggy Azalea is the latest in a long line of women to have their private, nude photos leaked without her permission. On Monday May 27, a day after the photos were leaked and began gaining traction online, Iggy deactivated her Instagram and Twitter accounts.

It’s understandable that she would want to take a break from social media, as she was being inundated with sexual jokes and crude discussion of her body. Her privacy has been disregarded, and her body treated like fair game to anyone with a keyboard.

The photos are reportedly from a GQ Australia photo shoot taken in 2016 by photographer Nino Munoz. Iggy Azalea never gave permission for the dissemination of the topless pictures.

Censored versions of the images can be seen in this GQ story that explains the uncensored photo was gifted by Azalea as a gift to plastic surgeon Dr. Ashkan Ghavami, who performed her breast augmentation surgery in 2015.

Iggy Azalea has been open about having her breasts augmented in interviews and a post on her Instagram that thanked Dr. Ghavami for his work.

“But vanity aside; Ash you’re hilarious as hell, talented, eclectic, a progressive thinker & someone who supports women in their choice to do what they want with their OWN bodies (tons of men don’t share that sentiment). So cheers to you! I’m proud to call you my friend.” she captioned the post.

Yes, Iggy Azalea has spoken openly about her breast augmentation, sent a picture to one person, and has chosen to appear scantily clad in the public eye. NONE of this excuses leaking her private photos. No one has the right to access someone’s private photos without their permission, and sharing nude photos of someone without their permission is a crime.

What makes this even shittier is the fact that not only does Iggy Azalea have to go through the emotional distress of having her privacy violated and her body sexualised, but to avoid further anguish she has had to leave the platforms which are key parts of her business success.

Musicians like Iggy Azalea use Twitter and Instagram as their main platforms, and with a new album coming out soon, leaving those platforms is the last thing that she would want to do business-wise.

The hashtag #RespectIggy is trending among people on Twitter calling out the violation of privacy and public humiliation that Iggy Azalea is facing.

Sharing someone’s nude photos without their permission is a crime and I hope someone gets punished accordingly.

Victoria’s Secret Is Failing Because We Have A Problem With Poor Diversity, Not Network TV

There is no place for the parade of 'Angels' in 2019.

Victoria’s Secret used to be the lingerie brand to rule them all, but in recent years its stock has very literally plummeted as the company’s head decision-makers failed to keep up with the times.

The market share has been declining and so have the number of people tuning into the iconic annual fashion show. So now Victoria’s Secret L Brands CEO Les Wexner has let slip in a memo obtained by CNBC that they are going to ‘rethink’ the fashion show to evolve with the digital age.

The party line is that “going forward we don’t believe network television is the right fit,” which is basically blaming the poor ratings on the dwindling relevance of Network TV as opposed to the dwindling relevance of the brand itself.

But we all know that Victoria’s Secret and the annual fashion show has lost fans because the brand still reps a uniformed, unrealistic body-type that is no longer what we want to see.

Check out the body diversity at the 2017 VS Show!

Victoria’s Secret refuses to represent any women who are not very tall, very thin, and as far as body-types go, very similar. As a company, they are reinforcing the damaging message that women are only sexy, have the right to feel sexy, wear sexy outfits and express their sexuality, if they have zero per cent body fat.

It’s 2019, we want better, and they have failed to evolve. That is why Victoria’s Secret is failing.

The brand messaging is not accident, which was made clear by the Chief Marketing Officer Ed Razek last year when he commented in a Vogue interview that Victoria’s Secret will not showcase plus-size or transgender women in their annual show.

Using the outdated and offensive term ‘transsexual’, Razek stated that trans and plus-size women do not exemplify the “fantasy” that Victoria’s Secret is selling.

His comments garnered the backlash they deserve, and Razek retracted them in a weak attempt to recover the brand.

The problem with Victoria’s Secret is that they are still selling underwear to women by appealing to men. If they paid attention to what we actually want, they would realise that it is not the male fantasy of female perfection that they’re stubbornly sticking to.

We want diverse bodies, diverse people, and diverse products that represent who the consumers are and what we need. At this point, VS is tragically far behind the body-positive movement and that is the company’s own fault.

Meanwhile, other lingerie brands are keeping up with the demand, like Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty line. Rihanna put Victoria’s Secret to shame with her epic lingerie fashion show at last year’s New York Fashion Week.

Rihanna demonstrated that diversity is not that hard to achieve if you just decide to do it. People loved the show, people love her brand, and people did not shy away from making savage comparisons with the outdated Victoria’s Secret show.

Victoria’s Secret’s problem is not Network TV, it’s that the company has refused to meet the demands of its consumers. That’s why we have lost interest.

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