Body Shaming Playmate of the Year Is Also Jerk of the Century

If you’ve ever felt at all self-conscious about undressing in front of others in the gym locker room, this story will no doubt send a shiver down your spine.

Meet Dani Mathers — a woman who’s used to having tons of people see her naked. In 2015, the 29-year-old blonde was crowned Playboy‘s Playmate of the Year, having posed nude for the men’s magazine prior to its eradicating full-frontals.

On Wednesday, Mathers, who lives in Los Angeles, decided to break the woman human code by secretly photographing a naked woman in the locker room and then posting the photo on Snapchat for all her followers to see. Adding insult to injury, she captioned the post, “If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either.” The model juxtaposed the image with a selfie, in which she appears to be covering her mouth to either stop herself from laughing or vomiting. Invading a stranger’s privacy and body-shaming her? Forget Playmate of the Year — this woman might just be the Jerk of the Century.

Not long after, Mathers seemed to regret her decision to post the photo and deleted it — but not before the Twittersphere (including some major influencers) had caught wind of what she’d done:

In an effort to do damage control, Mathers returned to Snapchat to apologize — pleading ignorant about how the sharing aspects of the app work. “I just want to acknowledge a photo that I accidentally posted,” she said. “It was absolutely wrong and not what I meant to do. I chose to do what I do for a living because I love the female body and I know body shaming is wrong, that’s not what I’m about and this is not the type of person I am. The photo was taken as part of a personal conversation with a girlfriend and because I am new to Snapchat I didn’t realize I had posted it, and that was a huge mistake. I know I have upset a lot of people out there but please believe me this is not the type of person that I am. I have never done this before and I will never do this again, you have my word.”

She also apologized on Twitter, saying,

Hours later, she added,

Unsurprisingly, many were not bowled over by her apologies. Said one tweeter, “Please stop saying ‘this was never meant to happen’ you mean ‘I was never meant to be caught.’ Private or public you did it.” Wrote another: “The saddest part of this @DaniMathers thing is the woman she shamed was @ the gym, working on herself. You make a joke of that? Girl, bye.”

Others went further, suggesting that Mathers should face charges for what she had done. “@DaniMathers deserves legal action brought against her for posting a person’s naked body w/out their knowledge or permission. #Disgusting,” said one. ” Added another: ‘Why aren’t charges being brought against @DaniMathers? If a man had done this he would already have been arrested!” This is actually a very valid point.

Since last night, Mathers, the unidentified subject of her Snapchat, the gym it occurred in, and the LAPD have all stayed quiet about the situation. But we’ll be watching out to see what things unfold over the next few days.

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