Pregnant TV Host Tells Body-Shaming Haters to "Get Stuffed"

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Pregnant Australian TV host Sarah Harris was sitting on the Studio 10 morning show, when a few comments from a fellow panel member about how great Harris looked in a magazine shoot prompted her to speak honestly about herself.

"I actually don't look like that in real life," Harris said, as photos of herself — in casual attire, no makeup, hair tied up — published in the Daily Mail came up on the screen. The TV personality said she saw the photos of herself and started to read through the comments, many of which shamed her and her pregnant body, "They were having a go at how huge I am, how fat I am, how ugly I am."

Live and on-air, Harris addressed her haters — and anyone who shames pregnant women — with an impromptu speech:

"When you're pregnant, you do feel very vulnerable and self-conscious about your body. I did feel pretty awful about the comments, but then I thought, 'Bugger it, I am growing a baby.' This is me. This is how I get around once I leave work . . . that's what I look like and that's OK . . . and I hope those photos of me make other pregnant women feel better about their bodies because I'm kind of fed up with the body shaming that happens when you're pregnant . . . on behalf of all of the pregnant women out there who might be feeling a little bit chubby and a little bit flabby, on behalf of all of them, I want to say to the haters, 'Get stuffed.'"

She totally shut down the haters in the best way, but as if that wasn't enough, she ended with this gem of a comment, "And by the way, I wasn't leaving work, I was leaving a Mexican restaurant where I had an awesome, awesome chicken burrito . . . "