Plus-size blogger Courtney Mina encourages women to ‘shed their clothes’ on …

Courtney says she received a number of ‘creepy’ comments, and did attract a few ‘trolls’ but insists most people’s responses were overwhelmingly positive.

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Canada native Courtney Mina is on a mission to celebrate body positivity, and is setting pulses racing with her recent series of daily lingerie-clad selfies (pictured)

‘My body is a unique form of beauty,’ Courtney wrote of her photos. 

‘It’s large, fat, curvy, and deliciously feminine, and as a body positivity activist and model, I am more than happy to show it off to the public with pride.’

Along with one selfie, in which she is wearing a lavender lingerie set and a glittering tiara, Courtney wrote: ‘I feel like a goddess in this body of mine.

‘It’s a symbol of my strength, my sexuality, my identity, my confidence, and my power. No words can bring it down – only lift it higher. That’s because my #curvesreign.’

Courtney says she ‘struts around the house most days in only my underwear and a crown’, but wanted to see what would happen if she shared photo evidence of this with her 38,000 Instagram followers

She says she’s received a number of ‘creepy’ comments, and did attract a few ‘trolls’ but insists most people’s responses were overwhelmingly positive

The voluptuous blogger did address some of the cruel comments that were made of her photos, including one which read: ‘U fat whale ur disgusting [sic]‘.

‘There is nothing that anyone can say that I haven’t already heard,’ she writes. ‘And fat haters are notoriously unoriginal when it comes to insults.’

Many people, she says, use their ‘concern’ for her health to try and ‘mask’ their true feelings on the matter – which she argues is ‘plain and simple sizeism’.

‘Your health is not always determined by your size,’ Coutrney writes, noting that she, for one, is completely free of disease.

Courtney admits to having been a painfully shy child at school, and was hounded by bullies over her weight growing up, but has since learned to embrace her curves and insists she no longer gets bothered ‘at all’ by her ‘haters’.

Along with one of her selfies, she wrote: ‘Big, soft arms and a big, round booty. I wouldn’t trade this body in for any other in the world, because my #curvesreign.’

Courtney writes of her body, ‘It’s large, fat, curvy, and deliciously feminine, and as a body positivity activist and model, I am more than happy to show it off to the public with pride’

Many people, she says, use their ‘concern’ for her health to try and ‘mask’ their true feelings on the matter – which she argues is ‘plain and simple sizeism’

Positive commenters – ‘the majority’ of whom were women – were quick to praise Courtney for her ‘confidence’ and style.

Her recent social media experiment has been very liberating, she says.

‘It’s sort of been my huge “eff you” to society, sure, but more importantly it has been my huge “YES you” to the plus-size community and my fellow fat babes’ she writes.

Indeed, some positive commenters – ‘the majority’ of whom were women – were quick to praise Courtney for her ‘confidence’ and style.

‘You are so inspiring, and you help me to look in the mirror and love myself, something I never thought I’d be able to do. Thank you,’ wrote one.

Courtney doesn’t just want to show off her own body. She hopes to encourage other curvy women to do the same.

‘So shed those clothes, ladies – and show me your underwear!’ she says.

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