Mum-To-Be’s Bumpie Goes Viral For All The Wrong Reasons
This mum’s bump picture went viral for all the wrong reasons [Photo: Facebook/The Shutup Meg Blog]
When she was pregnant with her youngest child, Meg Ireland shared occasional pictures of her growing bump to social media. So far, so normal for an excited mum-to-be.
But what the 25-year-old parenting blogger didn’t realise was that sharing her bumpies was about to expose her to a dark side of the Internet she’d never even heard about, the disturbing world of preggophilia porn.
Now, the Shut Up Meg blogger is speaking out about her experiences in a bid to warn other women and encourage people to think carefully about what they share online.
The mum-of-two wants to warn other women about the dark side of social media [Photo: Instagram/shutupmeg91]
Taking to her Facebook and Instagram channels, Meg re-shared the original image alongside a detailed post about her experiences.
“That time my bump went viral in a not so good way. This bump pic along with around 15 other pictures of mine ended up on an online “preggophilia” site,” she wrote.
“I see so many people upload their bump pics and now I just gasp and hope to god they don’t get into the hands of someone they shouldn’t.”
“We shouldn’t have to worry about people stealing our photos, but unfortunately it happens ALL THE TIME!”
The parenting blogger was shocked to find her bump pictures on a preggophilia website [Photo: Instagram/shutupmeg91]
For those in the dark about preggophilia (that’ll be most of us then!) the site claims to be for people who have a fetish about pregnant women. Meg claims she came across some pretty disturbing images when scrolling through the site.
“People who were uploading pictures of their wife to other users, brother in laws uploading pictures of their sister in laws and women uploading pictures of their work colleagues!!! I literally couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” the now mum-of-two wrote.
Posing the question of blame, the shocked parenting blogger went on to acknowledge that some would blame her for sharing the bump pictures in the first place.
“People would say I should only blame myself for uploading “personal pictures” and that it was my own fault (even though my profile was then private),” she wrote.
“I see it differently. I didn’t care that someone had screen shot my photo to show someone, it’s was what they did with my photo that made me physically sick to my stomach.”
Meg has a message for other mums-to-be [Photo: Instagram/shutupmeg91]
Talking to Daily Mail Australia, the mum explained that she suspected the pictures had been stolen from a regular online mother’s group.
“One person in the group was a fake and was using my picture to encourage other ladies to post pictures of their bellies so they could steal them and post them on these bizarre sites,” she said.
After threatening legal action the site eventually removed her photos and now the mum-of-two has some words of warning for other pregnant women.
“Please be cautious about who follows/adds you. Block them if they look like a creepy MF.”
Privacy settings altered!
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