An obese fashion blogger whose dreams became a reality when she was featured in Vogue magazine in a bikini saw it quickly turn into a nightmare when she received "really nasty" comments.
However Callie Thorpe has since turned it around once more - with a YouTube video posted to her profile explaining how she dealt with the subsequent online abuse seeing her featured on media outlets around the world.
The Welshwoman has been a blogger for several years - and as her 147,000-strong following would suggest, her positive body confidence has proved an inspiration.
So when she discovered she had been featured alongside the likes of Kendall Jenner and Selena Gomez by Vogue, it was a chance for her to widen her scope of influence - or so she thought.
However the posts only seemed to draw a swathe of online abusers, who picked apart Ms Thorpe's looks and her size.
"I made a mistake of scrolling down onto some really, really nasty comments about me that were just so awful that I couldn't even get them out of my mind," she explained in a YouTube video, as she held back tears.
"There were 900 comments, and pretty much all of them were vile - like violent and abusive. It was the worst thing I'd ever read in the whole five years I've been blogging.
"I couldn't actually get it out of my brain, like at all. And in the night I couldn't sleep because of all the things I'd read about myself."
Throughout the rest of the video, Ms Thorpe discussed the struggles of being a well-known media personality and the abuse that tends to come with it - but she also complained that people expected her to ignore trolls and avoid reading comments sections.
She also encouraged others suffering from online abuse to speak out, in an attempt to denormalise it.
"It's insane to me, we just think that if we call someone a 'troll' it makes it okay," she said.
"Some of the stuff these people write is illegal, it's not even opinion. It's just violent, nasty sh*t that no one should ever have to see."
Ms Thorpe's video has proven a hit across the world, with a number of news agencies picking up her story.
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