‘It cut me deep’: Disgusting response to Aussie woman’s wedding photos

When Chloe Pink’s wedding photos were posted, she expected compliments and well wishes, not insults so cruel they left her crying for a week.

When Chloe Pink’s wedding photos were posted, she expected compliments and well wishes. However what she received was insults so cruel that she had friends texting her, asking “are you alright?”

On March 8th, Mrs Pink married her childhood sweetheart, North Melbourne AFL player Toby Pink.

The pair have been together for almost eight years but grew up together. Mr Pink is best friends with her brother.

“All through childhood, he always asked me to be his girlfriend. Even in his vows he said he finally got to marry his childhood crush,” she told news.com.au.

It is such a sweet story, but when some gorgeous wedding pictures were posted on social media things turned sour.

The couple looked so happy on their wedding day. Picture: Instagram/ chloepink__

In his vows he said he got to marry his childhood crush. Picture: Instagram/ chloepink__

The comments on a celebratory and beautiful article about their nuptials became about Mrs Pink’s weight to the point that AI summarised that the response was about “beauty standards” rather than their wedding.

It feels important to point out that the comments weren’t just critical of Mrs Pink’s weight. They were cruel, degrading and hateful. And they were appearing faster than anyone could delete them, or possibly manage the situation.

Mrs Pink shared some of the worst ones in a clip on her social media account alongside Billie Eilish’s song ‘What Was I Made For’.

Someone called her a “fridge,” another wrote, “AFL player by day, pig hunter by night,” and one comment claimed she looked more like an AFL player than a bride.

She’s shared some lovely photos of her wedding on social media. Picture: Instagram/chloepink__

She was so excited when they got engaged. Picture: Instagram/chloepink

Speaking to news.com.au, Mrs Pink said she’d been “crying” all week about the response to her wedding photos.

The 25-year-old works in human resources, she is not an influencer or a public figure, and the comments broke her heart.

Mrs Pink said she’d experienced “some comments before” after attending AFL events with her husband but never to this extent and never this cruel.

“I didn’t think they’d be so horrible,” she admitted.

“It is easier said than done to ignore them. It is just a natural thing to read something about yourself.”

The pair have dated for seven years. Picture: Instagram/ chloepink__

She didn’t think the comments would be so cruel. Picture: Instagram/ chloepink__

Mrs Pink hasn’t had years in the limelight, nor any media training to learn how to block out comments or ignore them.

She’s found it frustrating that the blame gets put onto her for reading the hate and argued that the response of, “Well, just don’t read the comments” doesn’t help because it just becomes about “excusing the behaviour” rather than acknowledging that it is disgusting.

It shouldn’t be her job not to read the comments, men need to stop commenting hateful things about women.

Mrs Pink said when she shared the comments with her husband he was stunned that men could look at their wedding photos and have such a disgusting response.

“He really was in shock. People say bad things about footballers, but they talk about how they play, not their appearances,” she said.

“We both sat there and cried. He has been really good, really supportive, and he tells me he loves me and that I’m beautiful.”

Mrs Pink said she also knows that her husband loves her for who she is, finds her attractive, and likes the way she looks, but those comments were hard to swallow.

“It cut me deep. I cried for the last week,” she said.

“That was our wedding day, and I felt beautiful. I shared those photos and didn’t question my body weight.”

She said her husband was in shock. Picture: Instagram/ chloepink__

The response reduced her to tears. Picture: Instagram/ chloepink__

Mrs Pink, who is between a size 14 and 16, which is the average size of an Aussie woman, said perhaps the saddest part of the response to her wedding photos is that it was one of the few times she posted something online and didn’t feel insecure about her weight.

The 25-year-old said she often posts photos and thinks, “Do I look fat?”. But on her wedding day, she felt and looked beautiful.

The comments made her question everything.

“I started questioning myself. ‘Did I really look bad? I had felt so confident and then it ruined my week,” she said.

The gross response made her question herself. Picture: Instagram/ chloepink__

She feels like the response partly overshadowed her bridal joy. Picture: Instagram/ chloepink__

The young bride said the unfair reality is that she knows that even if she were a size six, people would still find something “nasty” to say because everyone always has something to say about the appearances of WAGS.

“The comments were so vile and disgusting that they had to be deleted, and eventually, the comments were turned off completely. All because I don’t fit the typical ‘WAG mould’,” she explained.

“Being married to a professional athlete does not give anyone the right to comment on my body or size.

“My weight is influenced by underlying health conditions – though frankly, that’s no one’s business, and it shouldn’t matter either way.”

At the end of the day, even though Mrs Pink is actively trying not to let the comments define her, they have tainted an incredibly special moment in her life.

“I do not want to let it overshadow my wedding, but it naturally does,” she said.

“My mum spent the week crying more than I did and my friends and family feel more hurt than I do,” she said.

The only silver lining in this mess was the response from other women when she shared the gross comments on her personal TikTok.

She said it had been “wonderful” and affirmed that there was nothing wrong with her and everything wrong with the people body-shaming her.