A plus-size model has hit back at a photo editing app for using her likeness and slimming down her curvy figure without her permission.
Tabria Majors, 27, from Nashville, Tennessee, took to Instagram to share screen grabs of BodyCamera’s Instagram ads featuring ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos of her body while slamming the company for using her image to sell its product.
The model’s figure is so heavily edited in the ‘after’ shots, it is barely recognizable, and she was quick to call out BodyCamera for the ‘disrespectful’ images that were created without her knowledge.
Not having it: Tabria Majors, 27, from Nashville, Tennessee, took to Instagram to share screen grabs of BodyCamera’s Instagram ads featuring her likeness without her permission
Shocking: The model’s figure is so heavily edited, it is barely recognizable, in the ‘after’ shots promoting the app
Call out: Tabria slammed BodyCamera for using her image to sell its product, nothing that the edited images of herself are ‘flat out disrespectful’
‘First of all @bodycamera2017 if you’re going to use my image to sell your product, run me my coin!’ she wrote. ‘Second of all, this is flat out disrespectful.’
In the ads featuring Tabria, the company claims it is ‘an amazing camera especially for women’ while urging people to install the free app.
Tabria went on to say that she doesn’t have issue with minimal photo editing, but she takes offense to apps like BodyCamera that are preying on women’s insecurities.
‘I can understand minor touch ups, but apps like these where you can photoshop your body into oblivion are a huge contributing factor to people having self-esteem issues,’ she continued.
Fan club: The plus-size model has more than 547,000 Instagram followers who love her figure as much as she does
Using her platform: Tabria noted that she doesn’t have a problem with minimal photo editing, but she takes issue with apps like BodyCamera that prey on women’s self-esteem
Happy as can be: Tabria reminded her fans that they are beautiful just the way they are
Support system: Many of the model’s follower were equally outraged and took to the comments section of her post to share their disgust
‘Wow’: Some people urged Tabria to sue the company, while others were shocked that her image was used without her permission
She ended her post by reminding her 547,000 Instagram followers that they don’t need to alter their bodies.
‘Please remember that you are beautiful just the way you are and you don’t need an app to tell you that!’ she wrote.
Tabria’s fans were equally outraged, and many of them urged her to sue the company for using her likeness.
‘This is so messed up. Looks better on the left side, anyway. App failed,’ one person wrote, another added: ‘That’s disgusting. You (and every other woman) are beautiful. You don’t need a stupid app to show that.’
Tabria’s image is no longer featured on the BodyCamera2017 Instagram page, but the current photos being shared have elicited similar disgust.
Not real: Although Tabria’s image is not featured on BodyCamera’s Instagram page, there is a picture of another plus-size modelslimmed down to the point that she looks cartoonish
Demonstration: Another ‘before’ and ‘after’ photo shows how women can use the app to give themselves bigger chests
Can’t be tamed: BodyCamera also appears to have used an old photo of Miley Cyrus to show how the app can be used to make someone taller
Angry: In the comment section of the post, people tagged the singer and urged her to sue
Controversial: A majority of comments came from people who slammed the company and called the edited images ‘disgusting’
One image depicts another plus-size model slimmed down to the point that she looks cartoonish, while another shows how women can use the app to give themselves bigger chests.
A majority of comments came from angry people who slammed the company and called the edited images ‘disgusting.’
‘This is TERRIBLE!’ one person wrote. ‘You need to stop projecting your own self image issues and STOP implying that beautiful thicker bodies need to be shrunken down to entirely unreasonable proportions in order to “look better” – WE ALREADY LOOK GOOD! Hope someone sues you #girlbye.’
BodyCamera also appears to have used an old photo of Miley Cyrus to show how the app can be used to make someone taller, prompting people to tag the singer while urging her to sue.
‘Literally every photo they use is unauthorized and stolen. U think Miley wanna promote this garbage?’ one person wrote.
Strike a pose: Tabria’s Victoria’s Secret- inspired photo shoot went viral a few months ago after she called out the lingerie brand for not featuring plus-size models
Just as good! The plus-size model hit back at the brand in her caption, noting that ‘curvy girls can rock (and sell) lingerie just as well as straight-size models’
Proving her point: Tabria’s post has been liked more than 41,000 times
Daily Mail Online has reached out to BodyCamera for comment.
Tabria is a body positivity activist who is dedicated to using her platform to help women learn to love themselves. she scored plenty of new fans this fall when she hit back at Victoria’s Secret for only featuring straight-size models.
To prove that curvy women look just as good modeling the brand’s lingerie, she posed for a Victoria Secret-inspired photo shoot before taking to social media to show off what she looks like in the pieces compared to the brand’s models.
The curvaceous model called out the brand for failing to feature plus-size women, writing: ‘Maybe I’ll be a Victoria’s Secret Angel this year for Halloween, since it ain’t happening in real life.
‘Just paying homage to a few of my favorite pics/outfits from VS here and showing that curvy girls can rock (and sell) lingerie just as well as straight size models,’ she added.