Katy in her own words responding to her bitchy, cowardly online critics
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Katy French was recently the victim of an online hate campaign and bravely faced down her vicious critics with an insightful look into what it’s like to be her.
As recent as a month ago the beauty was forced to defend herself on a beauty website. And in a stirring statement, which silenced her detractors, she spoke of the difficulties facing an Irish model and the potshots being taken at her career.
Bloggers on the site referred to her as “ugly” and a “non-entity” while one even queried whether she had undergone a frontal lobotomy.
“Or maybe there was nothing there to remove in the first place,” the blogger added.
In a stirring response Ms French bravely challenged her critics.
“I can understand how the rest of you might not see it as it is swamped by the tabloid image of me, that yes, I do have a part in orchestrating,” she admitted.
But she explained the necessity for an Irish model to do this, because of the nature of promotional work in this country.
“You see the fact is I'm not a high fashion model that will grace the pages of glossy magazines, my mainstream line of work in Ireland is promotion-type jobs, this is because it's bread and butter to Irish models.
“If I or any other Irish model were to wait for an editorial in Vogue I probably wouldn't be chatting to you now as I wouldn't be able to afford the phone bill, or any other bills for that matter,” she wrote with an air of pragmatism that critics often didn't give her credit for.
Ms French, who is battling for her life in Navan hospital, also sought to defend her profession in general.
One internet user, masquerading under the pseudonym Lavajonation, wrote of the promotional work carried out by models such as Ms French and her modelling colleagues.
“I suppose it's as close to catwalk modelling as glamour modelling is!
“I guess they are glamour models, except that they don't quite take all their clothes off and you don't need to be good-looking for that because no one looks at your face, right???,” said the poster.
Katy jumped to the defence of her industry and attacked the tone of the comments. “I enjoy what I do, I've carved out a career for myself in the Irish 'modelling industry' and find it shocking that anyone thinks they have the right to knock someone else's profession or career, no matter what it is.
“Is a surgeon any less of a surgeon if he is working in the Third World as opposed to his other half working in the finest surrounds with the latest equipment in New York?” she asked.
The model was sharply criticised in the Irish media and online for her remarks that the cruelty of fur farming was no worse than shearing sheep.
And the 24-year-old bravely stood by her controversial statements despite an onslaught of cruel jibes.
“I have witnessed both the shearing and the fur faming and in my opinion the sheep were far more terrified; check it out yourself and then comment,” she said, daring readers to challenge her.
Following her lengthy response to the blog on October 30, the comments fell silent and the nasty writers retreated. Some people even complimented the star for making the statement.
