Ashy Bines sold recipes stolen from other websites. She says: “It really sucks that these things happen”

‘YOU are a b****, I pray a truck runs you over’. What could possibly rile someone up so much that they would send this online message to pregnant Ashy Bines?

GOLD Coast fitness queen Ashy Bines has stopped short of apologising to fans after it was revealed large sections of her clean eating recipes were ripped off from other websites.

At least 10 recipes from Bines’s online products have been identified as being exactly the same or slightly changed from those found on other food blogs with earlier dates — with one even using the same photo.

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The copies were found by the administrator of a blog which writes exclusively about what it claims are Ms Bines’s “dishonest business ethics”.

Addressing the revelations on YouTube, Ms Bines said her books had been outsourced to an unnamed ­nutritionist and “it really sucks that these things can happen”.

“Unfortunately, I have been too naive in not checking the origins of these recipes and in thinking that the work would be completed in an honest and professional manner,” she said. “Some of these recipes were not original at all and have been ­copied from other sources.”

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The video did not say whether the recipes had been withdrawn from her plan or if she intended to pay the creators for their content.

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In a series of text messages to the Gold Coast Bulletin yesterday, Ms Bines said she did not want to speak about the plagiarism beyond what was in her video as it would “bring the haters out”.

She sent a screenshot of some of the comments from people talking about her unborn child, which said “I hope it gets down syndrome you dirty liar” and “you are a bitch, I pray a truck runs you over”.

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Ms Bines, 26, has been targeted by blogs and Facebook pages since her business took off three years ago, fighting claims of misleading photos and defending the wellness programs that have made her a household name.

Ms Bines, who asked the Bulletin not to report on the copied recipes so she could “focus on myself and my pregnancy”, blamed the media for “depression and suicide” but declined the chance to address the theft of other people’s work.

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Ashy Bines (left) with one of her challenge participant’s Christina Fern. Bines recorded a video addressing plagiarism claims. Picture by Scott Fletcher