Sujith Bhaktan TR | Photo Credit: Facebook

To be shamed for one’s style, appearance and physical health on social media is nothing new. Some users have a nagging habit of insulting and maligning individuals even if they don’t know them personally. But, recently, when an Indian vlogger’s wife was fat-shamed by some users on Facebook, he had the most fitting reply.

Sujith Bhaktan has become an internet sensation. But this time, the applauds and appreciation are not for his amazing travel videos. It is for a video he made for people fat-shaming his wife, Shweta, who he married recently.

After reading a lot of irritating and insulting messages about his wife, Bhaktan decided to do a Facebook Live video which has now gone viral on social media with close to 8 lakh views and 31,000 shares.

Here’s the video:

In the video, Bhaktan says that his wife has received a lot of unwanted comments on Facebook about her weight. But he is quick to point out that he himself is unreasonably heavy and there is a growing trend of gendered fat-shaming on social media where women are unfairly targeted for their appearance.

He then goes on to say that his wife has a very good heart.

"Don't people with higher weight also have to live? It's not only people with less weight who are beautiful men or women. Everyone has their own unique beauty. Real beauty lies on the inside, it's not about fatness or being thin,” Bhaktan says in the video.

Towards the end of the video, a cheerful Shweta says that she takes the comments positively and is not affected by it. But Bhaktan says that it is wrong for people to post such awful comments that can hurt some individuals with weight issues.

"There is a unique beauty in every one of us but the real beauty is not about external beauty, fatness or thinness," he says.