The Bachelorette 2019: Why Georgia Love posted Instagram rant - NEWS.com.au

Former Bachelorette Georgia Love is not backwards in coming forward.

The newly-engaged journalist maintains she’ll “never stop calling people out” on social media, and we should be thanking her for it.

Earlier this week, the 31-year-old posted a lengthy rant about people asking if she’s pregnant after fiance Lee Elliott shared a snap of them together at a wedding.

Sharing the photo on her own feed, Georgia addressed the comments it had attracted.

“I’m not pregnant. No I haven’t just eaten pasta or had a big lunch. This is just how I look. And I’m really, really sick of being made to feel like it’s not good enough,” the Channel 10 journalist said below.

Speaking to news.com.au following the post, she laughed as she said she “doesn’t let people get away with much”, but added that it wasn’t “trolls” she was necessarily targeting.

“A lot of people kind of have this thing where it’s like ‘eff the haters’ or you know ‘trolls hiding behind keyboards’, but I think the thing that upset me the most is that this wasn’t trolls, it wasn’t actually people trying to be nasty, it was people being quite excited for me, thinking that I was pregnant, or people sticking up for me being like ‘No she’s just had a big lunch’.

“The issue I have with this is that the world is so conditioned to what we see on Instagram and in magazines these days, that people can look at someone who looks like me and think that she must be pregnant because that’s not a normal body.”

Georgia’s post, which has almost 46,000 likes, questioned why such a photo had attracted such speculation.

“In what world should my body come into it?,” she asked, before listing the responses it should have garnered.

“Feel free to comment below about how beautiful the wedding was, how nice it is to see us back together after I’ve been away, that you like our outfits or, if you REALLY feel the need to comment on how I look, you can point out how good my bum looks when I wasn’t even wearing underwear,” she joked.

Speaking the following day, she said “the world’s gone absolutely mental” when it comes to what we think is acceptable to say about people online.

“We all need to stop and take a massive reality check. It’s just not OK … social media has warped peoples perception of what’s real and people forget that the people at the end of an account are real.

“I don’t know what we do to change this, but I think where we start is by calling it out,” she added.

Georgia, who is engaged to Lee Elliott from her 2016 season of The Bachelorette, said she’s had enough of being asked about having kids — a question that is becoming more common with a wedding on the cards.

“I don’t think it’s ever OK to ask a couple when they’re going to have babies, or why they don’t have babies or if they’re trying,” she said.

“It is the most incredibly personal question. What if I was trying to get pregnant and I can’t? What if I miscarried or if I’d been told that I can’t conceive and I’m really struggling with that, and then every time I leave the house someone feels that they’ve got to comment on the fact that ‘aww you guys would make such beautiful babies’ and ‘when are we going to see your babies?’ I’m just really over it,” she said.

“It’s actually the equivalent of someone coming up and saying ‘Hey are you guys having unprotected sex?’”

Georgia is currently an ambassador for the #NotTober initiative, which is raising funds for The Banksia Project, a charity focused on early intervention in men’s mental health.

It sees her attempting to “switch off and say no to things” for the remainder of the month — something she sees as a vital part of self-care.

“I think we do way too much these days, everyone’s running around the whole time, everyone’s so busy and our lives are so crazy, and people are suffering because of that,” she explained.

“Friendships are suffering, relationships are suffering and people are getting really burnt out.

“I think this is a really wonderful campaign to make people stop and think about the fact that it’s good to take the time out for yourself and not do anything and it’s OK to say no every now and then.”

“The great thing with this one is you don’t have to donate your money, you just have to post a photo and ahm will donate $10 on your behalf. It’s a really good easy way for people to help out a charity without actually having to take the money out of their own pocket,” she added.

When asked about her wedding plans to Lee Elliott, she explained:

“At the moment we’re just enjoying being in our bubble. We’ll have an engagement party soon though.”

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