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The Sun
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Horrified MAFS star hits back after cruel troll branded two year old son ‘overweight'
MARRIED At First Sight star Michael Brunelli has hit back at cruel trolls called their two-year-old son "overweight". The fitness trainer, 33, and wife Martha Kalifatidis, 37, found love on season six of the Australian show and welcomed their first child Lucius in February 2023. 4 Michael shared a recent sweet photo of him cuddling their little boy, but one follower posted a comment questioning the toddlers health. They wrote: "You might want to watch his weight. Looks overweight to me." Michael screenshot the shock message and shared it with her fans. He hit back at the person, writing: "Imagine looking at a photo of a toddler and thinking the best course of action is to comment "better watch his weight. "That's not concern,' the father-of-one wrote. 'That's real-life brain rot.' "If you're wired to see a happy, healthy two-year-old and think 'fat', you shouldn't be around children. "Get help. Touch grass. Drink some water. "And keep your projections the f**k away from mine." Michaels fans were quick to write supportive messages to the dad-of-one, while slamming the follower for being inappropriate. One wrote: "Imagine body shaming a literal f**king two-year-old. What's wrong with the world? Bubba is happy and healthy and absolutely f**king gorgeous!" A second posted: "Some people are disgusting. My daughter and I are obsessed with how gorgeous your son is! Well replied." While another follower shared a touching message, writing: "I see love. I see joy. I see beauty." In January, Martha addressed speculation that she was expecting their second child. Taking to Instagram from the family's Thailand getaway - following a two-week-long social media absence - Martha clarified that she and Michael are not expecting another child at the moment. Despite the buzz, the couple are focused on their little one Lucius and enjoying their time as new parents. Alongside some sun-soaked snaps from the trip, Martha wrote: "Hi everyone. Im not pregnant (thanks for asking tho) I was just having some time off in Thailand. It was swell, missed you all." Martha had a tough pregnancy after being diagnosed with Hyperemesis Gravidarum at five weeks. It's a severe morning sickness condition, which was also suffered by Kate Middleton. Martha said at the time: "It hasn't been this exciting, wonderful time for us. I don't want to sound like I'm complaining. "We are so excited, we are so happy, it was a complete surprise. But at five weeks I was diagnosed with Hyperemesis Gravidarum. "Which is severe chronic nausea and vomiting with no relief. It is 24-7. I literally didn't get out of bed for two months." Martha revealed that the horrifying sickness meant she lost ten kilograms in weight in just a matter of weeks. "We have been in and out of the emergency room and hospital," she said, before revealing she was being treated with "life-changing" medication to tackle the nausea. Martha and Michael got together on the 2019 series of MAFS Australia and are one of the few couple that are still together. They join a small number of MAFS stars who have had children with someone they were matched with on the show. Zoe and Alex from series one had a daughter called Harper, before they split up. Jules and Cam from series six had a son called Oliver, and series eight stars Bryce Ruthven and Melissa Rawson have twins, Levi and Tate. 4
Daily Mail
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Married At First Sight's Michael Brunelli savagely takes down woman who fat shames his two-year-old toddler with Martha Kalifatidis
Michael Brunelli has launched a searing counter-attack on a social media follower who labelled his two-year-old son Lucius 'overweight.' Michael and his partner Martha Kalifatidis welcomed Lucius to their family in February 2023 and he regularly features in their online content. The former MAFS groom-turned-influencer, who rose to fame on season six of the hit dating show, did not mince his words in an Instagram post shaming the woman who made the comment. Sharing a photo of himself cuddling his toddler Lucias, Michael screenshotted the comment which read: 'You might want to watch his weight. Looks overweight to me.' Michael shared the post with a 'Swipe across' caption, as the fitness trainer directed his 328,000 followers to read an angry missive. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, . 'Imagine looking at a photo of a toddler and thinking the best course of action is to comment "better watch his weight",' Michael fumed in his response. 'That's not concern,' the father-of-one wrote. 'That's real-life brain rot.' 'If you're wired to see a happy, healthy two-year-old and think "fat", you shouldn't be around children.' 'Get help. Touch grass. Drink some water,' Michael told the troll. 'And keep your projections the f**k away from mine.' Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Michael for comment. Fans of Michael and Martha were quick to condemn the troll in the comments section of his post. Fans of Michael and Martha were quick to condemn the troll in the comments section 'Imagine body shaming a literal f**king two-year-old. What's wrong with the world? Bubba is happy and healthy and absolutely f**king gorgeous!' the top comment on the post reads. 'While touching grass, please eat dirt,' a second commenter told the troll. 'Some people are disgusting. My daughter and I are obsessed with how gorgeous your son is! Well replied, too,' a third wrote. One follower told the dad that when they see photos of Luci with his parents, 'I see love. I see joy. I see beauty.' 'Has to win the dumbest comment on the internet today,' concurred another. Just last month, Michael shared an emotional update with fans about the personal toll that parenthood has taken on his mental and physical well-being. Michael revealed in a raw Instagram post that despite loving life as a dad, he no longer recognises the person he's become. 'As cliché as it sounds, I looked in the mirror today and barely recognised the guy looking back,' the 33-year-old began in his vulnerable message, adding, 'Not because there's anything seriously wrong with me, but I finally accepted that I'm not where I should be… physically and mentally.' Just last month, Michael shared an emotional update with fans about the personal toll that parenthood has taken on his mental and physical well-being Michael, who found lasting love with fiancée Martha Kalifatidis on the show, admitted that he's been stuck in survival mode and has neglected his own health and happiness while focusing on being a parent. 'My gym bag has dust on it, the veggies in the fridge are untouched, and the steps haven't cracked 10,000 in months,' he said. 'It's like I'm physically here, but in a thousand other places mentally.' While he's struggling behind the scenes, Michael made it clear that fatherhood remains his proudest role. 'Being a dad is a massive part of my purpose,' he said. 'But somewhere in the life noise, the pressure, the lack of sleep, the negative thoughts… I stopped being much else.' The former PE teacher said a scroll through his old photos was a 'wake-up call to start living healthier again.'
The Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Charlotte Dawson dances in her underwear as she claps back at trolls over post-baby body
CHARLOTTE Dawson stripped down to her underwear to give body shaming trolls a piece of her mind. The mum-of-three, whose youngest is four-month-old daughter Gigi, decided to put on a show in her nightie followed by bra and pants to send a message to people who criticised her post-baby body. 5 5 5 While holding baby Gigi, former Big Brother personality danced to the camera while slapping her belly and proudly showing off her curves. "Just about to take me Makey off n get into bed .. and had a thought. When twat heads ask me 'have you not lost weight yet?' She's only 4 months old for one, and secondly CHUFF OFF," Charlotte captioned the post. Charlotte's fans reacted to her video in the comments section of the post. "Sexy mama ! All you're kids are identical to each other too ! So cute," wrote one person. A second commented: "Imagine sending gross messages to this woman and she's there living a lovely life with three cute kids and dancing in her undies… what a queen." And a third posted: "I f*****g LOVE how real you are! We need more mums on socials like yourself! You are a sexy mumma and don't let ANYONE say otherwise." She is the daughter of legendary stand-up comedian Les Dawson and has tracked the ups and downs of her pregnancy and birth. Charlotte got engaged to Matt Sarsfield in 2020, and together they share two sons and a baby daughter. The reality TV star also recently opened up about being targeted by vile trolls - who have left her in tears. On a recent podcast, she got emotional and said: "I'm really low at the moment. I'm really up and down. I've been crying, I'm constantly upset and feeling like… thinking about things, worrying. "I'm trying to be positive, but... I've really been struggling, the last few weeks and days and stuff." Speaking about trolls, she said: "Like, the things that they're saying to me, it's just awful, and I don't want to give them what they want." 5
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Charlotte Dawson hits back at cruel trolls telling her to lose post-partum weight with hilarious candid clip
Charlotte Dawson hit back at cruel trolls who have been telling her to lose her post-partum weight in a new clip. The daughter of comedian Les Dawson, 32, who welcomed her third baby Gigi Dawson Sarsfield in March, took to Instagram to make her feelings known as she shared a hilarious video. Charlotte could be seen holding baby Gigi while wearing a pink dressing gown as she looks at herself and grabs her stomach, lip syncing to 'Oh my god what is that.' She then takes off the dressing gown so is just wearing her black bra and pants before starting to dance and lip syncing 'Oh it's a bad b***h.' Charlotte captioned the snap: 'Just about to take me Makey off n get into bed .. and had a thought. 'When tw** heads ask me "Have you not lost weight yet?" She's only 4 months old for one, and secondly CHUFF OFF ….' Charlotte captioned the snap: 'Just about to take me Makey off n get into bed .. and had a thought' Fellow reality star Lateysha Grace said: 'Sexy mama ! All you're kids are identical to each other too ! So cute ❤️❤️❤️❤️.' Fans of the star shared supportive comments as they praised her for being an 'inspiration'. They commented: 'U r literally the best female inspiration. When pregnant to post pregnancy and just normal life in general ❤️,'; 'Imagine sending gross messages to this woman and she's there living a lovely life with three cute kids and dancing in her undies… what a queen,'; 'Love this and you ❤️,'; 'Haters gunna hate Babes - your just perfect,'; 'Normal post baby weight is a sign that your priority is looking after your babies & not worrying about your image. Well done mama, you're doing a Grand job!'; 'Mines 4 years and I'm only losing the weight now cause I put myself on a diet! Sometimes we don't bounce back and thats okay. You're beautiful!'; 'I bloody love it!! Go girl!! You should be so proud of that beautiful amazing body that grew 3 amazing beautiful babies!! Your are so genuine and real.! I love it!! Swit swoo!!xx,'; Fellow reality star Lateysha Grace said: 'Sexy mama ! All you're kids are identical to each other too ! So cute ❤️❤️❤️❤️' Fans of the star shared supportive comments as they praised her for being an 'inspiration' 'I needed this so desperately. THANK YOU for this reminder!! I had my baby in March & I keep just beating myself up for not 'bouncing back' like everyone else.. but I've not given myself an ounce of grace or love, so thank you ❤️.' It comes days after Charlotte took to social media to promote her Dawsylicious Tanning range amid her financial difficulties. According to documents on Companies House, the reality star's business is facing a £88,000 tax bill and issued an appointment of voluntary liquidation in May. Charlotte co-owns the wholesale clothing and footwear brand with her fiancé Matt Sarsfield. She is also known to have a separate tanning brand, Dawsylicious Tanning. The star promoted the brand in the new clip, where she confidently danced in her garden in a bright two-piece. Alongside the clip, she penned: 'Ps yes I know I'm chunkeh but funkeh but im appeh x this is your sign to show you to wear that damn bikini x.' Charlotte and Matt managed to patch up their relationship last year after the news broke of the former rugby player's sexting scandal. And now the couple, who share sons Noah, four, and Jude, 20 months and daughter Gigi, two months, must face their financial problems together. Documents show the company has £15,000 in assets, reducing her debts to an estimated deficit of £73,300. Since starting the business in May 2020, Dawsylicious has been issued three strike notices, the most recent being in April 2024. Her accounts were due by February 29, 2024 and her confirmation statement was due on June 2, 2024. Both are marked as overdue. Dawsylicious is Charlotte's only limited company listed on Companies House and is described as a wholesale of clothing and footwear. She also has her separate tanning brand, Dawsylicious Tanning.
Irish Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Riona O Connor: ‘I was counting points on Weight Watchers when I was 15'
'Skip the bread, get ahead.' 'Summer bodies are made in winter.' 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.' Just thinking about slogans such as these makes Riona O Connor shudder. 'My brain is horrible,' the Kerry-born comedian says over a video call from her home outside London, as she reflects on the words beamed to her over the years from television shows, women's magazines and celebrity interviews. READ MORE 'My brain is a sh*t storm. The line 'Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels' – I bought that hook, line and sinker. But I share that with a lot of people because we were brought up in the 1990s with diet culture.' No more. These days, O Connor still hears prescriptive media messaging, particularly in summer, but she doesn't let it dictate to her. In defiance of Instagram 'thinspiration' beauty standards, O Connor has become famous for her photos and videos on the social media platform where she poses in a bikini or swimsuit but does not contort herself to suck fat in or twist her body to find sharper angles or use filters to smooth out wrinkles. O Connor faces forward and speaks frankly, persuasively and hilariously to her followers about her body, and the ridiculousness of not just wearing a bikini or swimsuit whenever you want to wear one, without feelings of shame or insecurity. O Connor is sparky, funny and warm. She has more than a million followers on her social media platforms. She receives constant feedback from fans who appreciate the empowerment messages she's offering, particularly now the pendulum seems to have swung back from a period in the 2010s where body positivity and 'glow-ups' were in vogue, to a new era where #SkinnyTok is driving the agenda to such a degree that European regulators recently convinced TikTok to ban the term as a search option. 'I do so many different things – sketches and comedy – and it just seems that, for whatever reason, me talking about how my brain works in a bikini seems to be resonating with a lot of people,' she says. 'I didn't realise people were so self-punishing. I thought people were a lot further down the road. But apparently we're all trying to figure this out together.' Riona O Connor. Photograph: Lissette Arenas O Connor is a graduate of LIPA, the performing arts institution in Liverpool co-founded by Paul McCartney. A talented singer, she arrived in England with the dream of making it in musical theatre. She landed a role in Roddy Doyle's The Commitments in the West End in 2013. But the long days and nights of musical theatre were incompatible with raising a family: O Connor has two young sons. 'It's eight shows a week, six out of seven nights. I didn't want that lifestyle.' So she turned to social media. 'It started off with me wanting to scratch the itch and sing and do sketches and share that part of myself. I started writing songs, and a lot of those songs were about the pressure to bounce back after you have a baby, and how I felt that pressure.' Growing up in Tralee, O Connor was often on a diet. 'I never had a little bum or small legs. I never fitted into that paradigm of what makes you, quote unquote, 'attractive'. I was counting points on Weight Watchers when I was 15. I was doing Slimming World. I didn't lose a pound at Slimming World because I wasn't weighing the potatoes.' She laughs. 'My ancestors were survivors. Our DNA said, 'Hang on to every bit of fat, you're going to need it to get through the war'.' [ Summer bodies: Your body is not a 'before'. It's not a problem to be solved Opens in new window ] But a point came when she realised enough was enough. She didn't want her energy taken up with worrying about food or weight. And she didn't think other people needed to be so burdened either. 'Have you ever done exposure therapy?' she asks. 'I originally did exposure therapy for my arachnophobia, because it was so horrendous. But in the live shows I do, I do a whole section on exposure therapy.' In this case, the 'exposure' is O Connor putting on a bikini and learning that the world continues to turn. 'We discover in the show: nobody's dying at the sight of my size. Everyone is alive: everyone is okay,' she says, laughing. 'It's just a person in a bikini, it's just a body. Exposure therapy is the way forward: the more we see people in different bodies, the less we're going, 'Oh my God, they're so brave!'' No matter what any algorithm spams you with, says O Connor, you can train yourself towards a healthier self-image and it will bring benefits. 'The voice is there, but you don't have to listen to it. I've found [being] brutally vulnerable and honest about my body is freeing. It's given me confidence because I don't have to pretend to be something I'm not.' Follow Riona O Connor on Instagram @rionaoconnor_ and , where details for her spring 2026 shows in Ireland will soon be announced. The helpline is at 01-2107906, or email alex@
