Facebook apologises for not featuring plus-sized model advertisements

Recently Facebook has had to apologise for rejecting an advertisement featuring a plus-sized model.

The social media website recently refused to feature ad of an Australian community called Cherchez la Femme. The community ad talked about 'feminism and fat'. The event itself was approved but not the promotion of the same.

The ad showed a plus-sized model Tess Holliday in a bikini which was rejected by Facebook on the grounds that it contravened their "health and fitness policy." However, the ad has now been approved.

One of the Cherchez la Femme member Jess posted a note highlighting the incident. She wrote:

To my surprise, Facebook rejected my boosted ad request because it promoted an "idealised physical image." I appealed this decision through Facebook, thinking that someone must have gotten a little confused about what we were doing by using an image of the divine Tess Holliday for the event banner."

Facebook has ignored the fact that our event is going to be discussing body positivity (which comes in all shapes and sizes, but in the particular case of our event, fat bodies), and has instead come to the conclusion that we've set out to make women feel bad about themselves by posting an image of a wonderful plus sized woman. We're raging pretty hard over here - both because Facebook seemingly has no idea that plus sized, self-describing fat women can feel great about themselves, and also because we haven't been able to boost the original damn post," said the note.