Facebook Ban Size 26 Model's Picture For Violating Their 'Health And Fitness Standards'

#1 Facebook said THIS picture of Tess Holliday violates its health and fitness standards

An image of the size 26 model posing in a bikini is being used to promote a body-positive event called Feminism and Fat.

However, the social media site refused Australian group Cherchez la Femme's (CLF) requests to boost an advert claiming the picture "violates Facebook's Ad Guidelines by promoting an idealised physical image".

#2 The advert was BLOCKED by Facebook moderators

A moderator went on to tell CLF employee Jessamy Gleeson: "The image depicts a body or body parts in an undesirable manner.

"Ads may not depict a state of health or body weight as being perfect or extremely undesirable."

#3 Tess Holliday's body could 'make viewers feel bad about themselves', according to Facebook

Other photos which fall under this category and could be blocked include those showing close-ups of muffin tops and overhanging fat, people with clothes that are too tight, people pinching their fat or cellulite, and pictures depicting eating disorders or medical conditions such as anorexia.

The spokesman added: "Ads like these are not allowed since they make viewers feel bad about themselves.

"Instead, we recommend using an image of a relevant activity, such as running or riding a bike.

"The current post remains published, but isn't running as an ad. If you'd like to boost your post, you'll have to recreate it with a policy-compliant image and boost it again."

Jess aired her disgust and slammed Facebook's policy, writing: "Earlier this week I went to boost our event through Facebook.

"I sometimes do this because Facebook's weird and wonderful algorithms mean that if I don't, our event announcements can get lost, and won't be seen by that many people.

"To my surprise, Facebook rejected my boosted ad request because it promoted an ‘idealised physical image'.

"I appealed this decision through Facebook, thinking that someone must have gotten a little confused about what we were doing by using an image of the divine Tess Holliday for the event banner.

"But no, Facebook responded by telling me that the ad wasn't approved because the image contravened their ‘health and fitness policy', and that I should instead consider replacing this image with one of a ‘relevant activity, such as running or riding a bike'."

#4 Cherchez la Femme organisers were disgusted by Facebook's response

She added: "Facebook has ignored the fact that our event is going to be discussing body positivity (which comes in all shapes and sizes, but in particular case of our event, fat bodies), and has instead come to the conclusion that we've set out to make women feel bad about themselves by posting an image of a wonderful plus-sized woman.

"We're raging pretty hard over here both because Facebook seemingly has no idea that plus sized, self-describing fat women can feel great about themselves, and also because we haven't been able to boost the original damn post."

Commenters were equally outraged, with one writing: "Oh wow. This is absurd.

"Facebook fails to deal with trolls who tell fat women to kill themselves and they have this policy? Ugh."

#5 The site has even been accused of fat-shaming

Another added: "I literally can't even believe this exists. Horrified and sharing."

One plus-sized lady said: "How do we complain? I feel absolutely terrible now because I'm about the same size.

"Do we really look so repulsive that our images need to be censored?"

Another social media fan wrote: "Health is beyond physical appearance. Mental health is so important.

"How disgustingly sad to see that Facebook ignores that and, as is often the case, only worries about judging by appearance."

Another compared the ‘too-tight clothing' rule to ‘everything that Kim Kardashian has ever worn' whilst one slammed Facebook for ‘fat shaming'.

#6 One commenter jokily asked if photos of Kim K would be blocked

Another lady stated: "A woman's real life body is banned, but photoshopped, impossible to obtain bodies are cool with Facebook?

"I wonder if it were a male body, what their response would be?"