Dani Mathers — Playboy's 2015 Playmate of the Year — is likely craving something unusual for a woman who delights in flirting with the camera.
Her privacy.
There is irony — some would say karma — in that desire. Mathers, 29, was at an L.A. Fitness in California last week when she snapped a photo of a naked woman whose perfectly normal body she found offensive. She posted the photo on Snapchat with the message, "If I can't unsee this then you can't either."
Mathers said she meant to send the photo (which didn't disappear) to one friend only, as if that would have been OK. Aside from being cruel, the move is illegal under California law and she could be charged.
Mathers has been banned from the gym's 800 locations, suspended from her radio gig and treated to a mauling on the internet.
Now it's our turn to look in the mirror. To single out Mathers for "fat shaming" is absurd. Sure, she was last week's highest profile offender. But unique? Hardly.
Type in "fat shaming" in a search engine and you'll find plenty of examples of daily cruelties and micro-agressions that we all may be committing wittingly or unwittingly. Transgressions can be as simple as dissing our own bodies in front of our daughters or, as one man posted online, the "disgusted looks [I get] from other diners when I am at a restaurant eating anything at all."
Celebrities are hardly immune. "Jesus. What happened to Kelly Clarkson? Did she eat all her back[up] singers?" tweeted British TV personality Katie Hopkins about the "American Idol" winner, who had given birth nine months earlier.