Irish singer CMAT calls out body shamers following BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend set | CNN

Irish musician CMAT has shared her “deep sadness” about being body shamed after a live appearance last weekend. The singer-songwriter, whose real name is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, has said there is “no relief” from how she is treated online because of her body shape and that she has had a “difficult” few days following her appearance at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Sunderland, northern England, on Sunday. In post she shared on Instagram on Thursday, she said she’d deleted social media apps Instagram, TikTok and X from her phone “for the preservation of my mental health,” but now feels “compelled to wade in and speak for myself.” “It is literally so boring for me, a gorgeous genius, to keep having to yap on about how horribly i am treated because of my body,” she wrote. Actor from new ‘Harry Potter’ series facing online abuse over casting She said she would “love to stop” but cannot as the abuse continues “at an accelerating and worsening pace” as she becomes more famous. CMAT shared screen grabs of a post written by a fan of hers called Front Row Feels, which the singer said “summed up a lot of what is causing my deep sadness.” CMAT rele