The Internet let out a collected gasp of disapproval when fashion designer Stella McCartney Instagrammed a backstage photo of a model wearing one of her creations. The problem people had with it: the model was “disgustingly,” “shockingly” thin and allegedly “clearly very ill.” At least, that’s what anti-skinny models think. McCartney and her team deleted the image since and replaced it with another model wearing the same outfit. Because she was not as thin as the previous model. They also issued an apology “if we offended anyone” with the “misleading” snapshot. “Misleading” is indeed the right word to describe the photo because the model it shows, identified as 17-year-old Ji Hye Park, is really not disgustingly thin. Being Asian, she obviously has a smaller frame than her Western counterparts. According to her agency, Ji is 5’10” and measures 32-24-34. She is decidedly smaller than most women, considering her height—but models usually are. The photo (angle, lighting, pose, etc.) may even have made her appear thinner than she actually is. The problem with all of this is that all those people who commented on social media and said nasty things about Ji seem to believe that they are voicing out valid concerns and opinions. But imagine how Ji feels, a teenage girl fresh out of high school, when she reads these insults—apparently hundreds of them—directed at her. “Please tell the other girl to seek treatment, she’s clearly sick,” said Instagram user “ladyhelo,” making the unfair assumption that she has an eating disorder. (Some actually blatantly accused her of being anorexic.)“Girl’s arms look scary...I thought you designed with real women in mind,” offered “elenacm2011,” implying that Ji is not a real woman. What is she, a cyborg? In its dissection of the controversy, TheGloss.com has this important point to make, “You can accept all shapes and sizes without calling thin women ‘disgusting.’ And you’re certainly not crusading for women if you then bully some of them simply because they look the way the [fashion] industry has told us all to look...When you call a woman ‘disgusting’ because of the way she looks, you are thereby approving all kinds of body shaming—yes, including fat shaming. Some people think they’re being progressive by being cruel, but in reality it just makes the world harder on women as a whole.” The message is simple: Appearance-based shaming of any kind is bad, hurtful and oftentimes hypocritical. Isn’t that what’s truly disgusting?