Siesta Key star Juliette Porter has given her fans an update on her online bully and asked them to help identify the person behind the screen.
Juliette Porter has let Siesta Key fans know she's still being harassed by an anonymous account and is asking if they can help her figure out the bully's identity. In June, Juliette let her followers know that she was regularly being tagged in Instagram posts and stories, body-shaming her and saying other horrible things about her. The reality TV star runs a swimsuit company called JMP The Label, and many of the body shaming posts were criticizing the way Juliette's body looked in her swimsuits. The star also called out Instagram for not doing enough to prevent bullying from occurring on their app.
Obviously, Juliette was hurt by the comments not just because they affected her but because they go against what she believes in. The star prioritizes body diversity on her swimsuit website and uses models of all sizes and races to make sure all women feel included and confident in their skin. Juliette put on a fashion show in July for Miami Swim Week, where all different women modeled her swimsuits down the runway. She even included her costar, Kelsey Owens, revealing that the two had overcome their differences and were friends again. This was less than a month before Kelsey was unexpectedly fired from the show.
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No matter how much Juliette stands up for body diversity, her online bully keeps coming back, and she's determined to find out who this anonymous person is. Juliette posted a series of TikTok videos informing fans that the bullying has been going on for a year and the attacks have been so personal that she wonders if they may be coming from someone that she knows. "TIKTOK detectives please help me find the cuber villain," Juliette wrote in the caption of her video. In another TikTok, the star scrolled through some of the vicious messages the account had been sending her to show fans just how serious the bullying has been.
One fan wrote, "Who has that much time on their hands? Sheesh!" While Juliette entertained the idea of the person being a random teenager with nothing better to do, she really feels this could be someone from her real life. "They make very intimate comments that only someone that knows me would know about me," the Siesta Key cast member revealed, giving an example that the account knew that her costar and roommate Lexie Salameh works out every day. Juliette then found out the account's email with some characters replaced with asterisks for privacy reasons and asked fans to help her figure out the full email.
Instagram has a lot of things on its list of priorities, but apparently, stopping harassment and bullying on its app is not one of them. Luckily, Juliette has the confidence and self-esteem to not take the comments too personally. But if she didn't, the online bullying could be detrimental to her mental well-being. Even with high self-esteem, picking apart someone's appearance is damaging and uncalled for. Hopefully, the Siesta Key star's fans can help her get to the bottom of the bullying mystery. If it is someone she personally knows, she should make sure to distance herself from that person for good.
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