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Ruby Rose eviscerates celebrity dietitian for making "reckless" comments about her weight.

 

As any woman in the public eye knows all too well – when it comes to magazine coverage of your body, you can’t win. You’re either deemed too fat or too skinny and it is always, always something to be ashamed of.

Ruby Rose is one star who has – according to the tabloids – been “too thin” for years, and the Aussie actress has had enough of it.

The 31-year-old responded to dietitian Lisa DeFazio’s opinion of her weight printed in Star magazine, where she estimated Rose weighed 44kg and said her “family and management team need to encourage her to gain some weight before it’s too late”.

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The 'celebrity dietitian' said "[they] need to encourage her to gain some weight before it's too late". (Image: Getty)

Rose hit back on Twitter, telling DeFazio she was "reckless", "maddening, and irresponsible" for speculating on people's weight without any knowledge of them.

"Do you actually have any ‘celebrity clients’ or just gossip magazines? You comment on people who you deem are too big or too small and even go so far as to guess why.

"You are reckless and no Hollywood expert would behave the way you do."

The model added she'd probably be in hospital if she weighed so little.

"I have the best team, family, friends, partner and medical professionals (not the ones who want to be TV hosts but actual credible Eastern and Western doctors) and I'm running at an optimum level. I am deficient in nothing and have endless energy."

Rose also threatened to knock the woman "off your pedestal of self-serving bullshit".

"I’d out train you, out box you, and sleep better at night.. Leave people alone."

DeFazio defended herself on Twitter, saying her comments are "never meant to be judgemental or body shame".

"Based on images they send me, they want me to explain health risks associated with various nutrition issues including being overweight or underweight- BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE in the MEDICAL field. It is all in the spirit of education and awareness," she wrote.

This isn't the first time Rose has addressed an outsider's concerns over her health and weight on social media.

In her Instagram Stories last month, she posted a message aimed at body-shamers.

"Body shaming shits me. It's so frustrating," she wrote.

"Not because I care about what someone thinks of my body. I love my body when I don't work out and I am soft and I love it when I train hard and feel strong. I hate it because it worries fans or shames them. I hate it because it uses no logic and basically is just someone projecting their experience and expectations on others."

Rose said she has her "stupidly healthy" plant-based diet and training schedule in preparation for action films to thank for her slim, strong frame.

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"I eat so much amazing food ( I can't believe I even have to write that sentence) I just don't drink alcohol or eat processed food, or meat or dairy and I train every day.

"I'm plant based and stupidly healthy. I trained my ass off for 3 action films, I used to be a boxer. My body is just my body. It fluctuates and it changes depending on how hard I train. The end."

She specifically addressed those who said she looked best when she was a presenter for MTV in the late 2000s, countering that was when she experienced poor health.

"When you say I looked the best in the MTV days in my early 20s...You guys.. that was a horrible time in my life health-wise.

"I drank every day, ate junk food all day and McDonald's at 4am when I was stumbling home from work.

"I know I wasn't healthy despite being bigger than I am now, because I got sick every month with pneumonia and chest infections. I get sick maybe once a year now.

"So please take care of your body and your mind and your soul and stop judging others."

Hear, hear.

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