CMAT shares 'deep sadness' over body-shaming abuse after Radio 1 Big Weekend set

Singer-songwriter CMAT has shared her "deep sadness" astir body-shaming maltreatment she received aft her show astatine Radio 1's Big Weekend.

The Irish instrumentalist says she has experienced a "difficult" fewer days aft performing astatine the euphony festival successful Sunderland due to the fact that of online comments astir her weight.

CMAT says she is "not choosing to look similar this oregon measurement this overmuch arsenic immoderate benignant of punk stone enactment of liberty" but that she simply has "a body".

CMAT, whose existent sanction is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, performed connected the main signifier of Big Weekend connected Sunday evening, earlier headliner Olivia Dean.

She opened up astir the latest body-shaming maltreatment successful an Instagram post connected Thursday, saying she felt she needed to "wade successful and talk for myself".

"It is virtually truthful boring for me, a gorgeous genius, to support having to yap connected astir however horribly I americium treated due to the fact that of my body," she wrote.

The vocalist said she would "love to stop" talking astir it but can't, "because it keeps happening, astatine an accelerating and worsening gait arsenic I go much famous".

"There is nary alleviation from this - cipher tin support maine oregon prevention maine from this, and each that is demanded of maine is much and much enactment arsenic each situation I americium placed successful becomes much hostile."

Comments person been disabled connected videos of CMAT's show astatine Big Weekend connected Radio 1's Instagram - but they haven't for posts astir different artists.

BBC Newsbeat has asked Radio 1 for a remark connected this.

CMAT besides shared screenshots of a Substack essay by a instrumentality called Front Row Feels which she says has "really has summed up a batch of what is causing my heavy sadness".

The effort compared however she's treated with chap Big Weekend acts Zara Larsson and Olivia Dean.

"What struck maine astir portion scrolling done those toxic remark sections was the glaring disparity successful however antithetic women connected that aforesaid lineup were treated," Front Row Feels wrote.

Last year, CMAT revealed that immoderate of the insults she received pursuing Big Weekend successful Luton inspired her way Take A Sexy Picture Of Me.

"I was conscionable wearing apparel and everyone was precise annoyed astatine maine for that," she told Radio 1's Jack Saunders astatine the time.

CMAT's squad said she didn't privation to accidental thing further erstwhile asked for a comment.

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