A former secondary school maths teacher says her rights are being violated because she is being punished for posting ʙικιɴι pictures on social media.
Louise Roberts has called it the “modern oppression of women” and said her livelihood is being put at risk.
The bodybuilder and racy model said Instagram is forcing her to remove “tame content” from her page by recommending she deletes certain posts.
Speaking with Daily Star, she said: “It is actually a huge issue among most women on Instagram at the moment and we’re being held ransom.
“Females are being over Sєxualised, it feels like a regression of equality and oppression of women in 2023. It feels like you’re being penalised for being too feminine and showing cuʀvᴇs.
“My page is over 21 but I still can’t post anything showing any kind of ᴀss cheek. I’m a bodybuilder and I’m not allowed to show my body or show my cuʀvᴇs or glute definition.
“I’ve had to delete multiple posts where I am literally just standing facing away from the camera in a ʙικιɴι. This is across the board for all women and we are actually regressing.
“This is 2023 but it feels like we’re going back to the age of side saddling on a horse. It is 100% oppression of women in modern society.
“I do feel this is a major issue. Literally all women that I know on the platform are suffering from this control. They have us over a barrel.”
Louise, 40, from EsSєx, ditched the classroom when the first lockdown hit and has been a fitness model ever since.
She also started selling content on OnlyFans and her net growth soon reached half a million pounds – having relied on a foodbank just weeks before she signed up to it.
But she now fears she could be deplatformed if Instagram continues to “censor” her account.
And despite using her Insta to attract followers to her OnlyFans, she also uses it to inspire women who are in a dark place like she was after turning 30.
She said: “I started my fitness journey in my mid 30s and have around 50,000 women who follow my Instagram.
“I went through a midlife crisis where I didn’t love my body, I felt invisible and I lacked confidence.
But I am 40 now and I feel like I have a powerful image to inspire other women who maybe felt how I felt in my 30s.
“When I mention my age and how I started later in life, I get a lot of women saying how much I inspire them and have encouraged them to start working out and I know how powerful that can be for your mental health.
“For me to show off my physique I need to show my body and I need to wear ʙικιɴιs.”
Louise has 335,000 followers on Instagram and she is convinced that there is inequality to how male and female bodybuilders are treated.
Explaining what she meant, she said: “Bodybuilding men can pose in tiny little briefs, showing their strides, their glutes and their hip flexes.