Karina Irby hits back after being bum-shamed

A bikini designer had a choice response to an elderly woman’s outrageous comments about her figure — and fans love it.

Bikini influencer Karina Irby has hit back at an older woman who claimed she was an “overweight girl” who needed to cover up.

In a post on Instagram Irby, who is the designer of Moana Bikinis, shared a cheeky post of herself flashing the peace sign at the camera.

Irby wrote that it was the second time she had been bodyshamed by someone older than her and it was important to not let someone else’s views get to you.

“It’s easy to let someone’s unasked opinion upset you BUT just flaunt those ‘flaws’ with confidence instead,” she wrote in the caption.

Irby first shared the story on Monday night’s episode of Hughesy, We Have a Problem, and revealedhow she had been out shopping recently with her mother-in-law when a woman in her 80s approached her.

Irby had been wearing the same outfit she had on Hughesy, a black cropped T-shirt and blue high-waisted leggings.

Irby is a body positivity activist but has been targeted by trolls in the past. Picture: Instagram.

“You know, I was feeling cute, I was feeling myself,” she said. “I came out of a chemist and this sweet little old lady came over to me on her walking frame.

“She looked like a little angel until she opened her mouth, and she came over and she said that if she had a bum as fat as mine, that she wouldn’t be drawing attention to it.

“And I shouldn’t be drawing attention to it and that I was quite an overweight girl and I should probably put a mumu on and cover up. I was like, ‘Oh’.”

Irby’s story about the elderly woman’s rather savage comments drew a stunned reaction from the rest of the panel – and prompted them to share times when perfect strangers had been rude to them.

“I was waiting at a set of lights once with a towel around my neck. I had no shirt on, I’d just come back from the beach,” Hughesy said.

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Wearing the same outfit on TV, Irby revealed the old lady had told her she was “quite an overnight girl” and should cover up. Picture: Channel 10.

Hughesy and the rest of the panel were stunned by what had happened to Irby. Picture: Channel 10.

“I felt someone grab the towel from behind and just sort of pull it down my back. I turned around. I said, ‘What are you doing?’ A woman said, ‘I’m helping you, I’m covering your back fat’.”

Akmal Saleh said he had finished up a comedy show when a random person came up to him with an unsolicited opinion about his looks.

“An old woman came up to me in Cairns and she said, after a show, straight after I got off stage,” he said. “She said, ‘Oh, you have to be funny because you’re short and ugly’.”

Meanwhile, Mel Buttle also shared how much it “sucks” that comments were made about her weight when it had nothing to do with her comedy work.

“Recently, a video went out about me, it had nothing to do with this but somebody was like, ‘You should get on Jenny Craig’,” she said.

“And then, like, a whole bunch of people, you know, and it always comes back to about how I look or my weight, and people think that they’re allowed to talk about it.”

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Karina Irby is an Instagram influencer and bikini designer. Picture: Instagram.

KARINA IRBY HITS BACK AT ‘FAKE’ CLAIMS

Irby’s TV appearance comes after she was forced to hit back over claims the unedited photos she posts on Instagram are “fake” and don’t show the real her.

In an Instagram post last month, Irby revealed that she had been targeted by an online forum where a “posed photo” had been compared with a “candid raw video screenshot”.

“They did this to try and portray me as some fake girl on the internet. LOL,” Irby wrote.

“No no. I’m real! And I’m sorry I’m not walking around holding my sh*t together and posing at anyone who looks at me from any angle. Although, that would be a GREAT workout.”

To get back at the cruel claims, Irby said she decided to “redo their work, but do it better” by sharing a posed photo of herself in the same bikini from the video.

The Moana Bikini creator also explained that there was a difference between candid and posed photos. Posed photos meant “angles, timing, lightening, location and cute outfits”, while candid was “any angle” and “anytime” by “anyone”, she said.

“Considering the mass amount of raw video/photo content I have on the internet, I think it’s pretty clear what I look like. I’m not fooling anyone, I can’t be bothered trying,” Irby added.

Irby’s followers were quick to show their support, writing in the comments that “haters are going to hate”.

“You are seriously so freakin cute! Thank you for empowering women and helping them love their bodies. Instagram would be a super dark place without people like you. You are a light for so many people,” one person commented.

“People have too much f***ing time on their hands. It’s ridiculous you even have to do this,” another wrote.