A troll tried to take down Lily Allen by posting a picture of the singer’s vagina on Twitter, and Lily expertly used it to promote her album. And why not? If it can birth three kids it might as well help her sell some records.
The singer was confronted by a follower on Twitter with a picture of herself on stage without wearing any underwear, and instead of crumbling in a ball of embarrassment, Lily hit the troll head on by being proud of her ‘2014 neatly trimmed vagina’.
She shared the snap to her own 5.92million followers, proudly pointing out that she’d given birth to three children – two with her former husband, and she suffered a tragic stillbirth four years ago. And at the same time she excellently used the image to promote new album No Shame.
In response to the troll’s attempt at shaming, Lily wrote: ‘LOOK AT MY 2014 NEATLY TRIMMED VAGINA, 3 HUMANS CAME OUT OF THERE’ along with a link to the picture.
LOOK AT MY 2014 NEATLY TRIMMED VAGINA, 3 HUMANS CAME OUT OF THERE. #NoShame June 8th 🤪 https://t.co/KsVkH30k4T— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) May 23, 2018
And then another photo cropped up, this one captioned by the fan as ‘Growler alert’. So Lily continued the album promotion. #NoShame.
— Lily Allen (@lilyallen) May 23, 2018
Fans were pretty impressed with her response to the images, with one confessing she’d become her #VaginaIdol. ‘Going to actually take this photo to my waxer next time if that’s okay with you? #VaginaIdol,’ they wrote.
One questioned if it was a PR stunt: ‘My gf thinks this is a PR campaign (guerrilla marketing stuff). Not a fake pic but that Misty is a plant. Discuss/dispute?’ To which Lily explained that she hadn’t been behind the pic leak. ‘Sadly,no. I’ll take it tho,’ she said.
And instead of turning on Lily like the original poster might have hoped, her fans questioned what they were trying to get at: ‘I’m pretty sure she knows what it looks like, pal. What’s your point?’
Lily’s album No Shame is out 8 June and is her first release since Sheezus in 2014. ‘I think that the idea going into Sheezus was really well-intentioned,’ she told Stereogum. ‘I think I was suffering from postnatal depression when I started writing it, and I think I was having an identity crisis, that I did not know I was a new mum.
‘I felt like I needed to be a pop star to pay my bills, and I didn’t feel like that, so I did what I thought pop stars should do, and it was very wrong.’ No Shame is out 8 June.
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