Adriana Lima swiftly shut down rude comments about her postpartum appearance

After attending the Los Angeles premiere of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes earlier this week, photos of Adriana Lima began going viral, with people criticizing her appearance and making claims that she looked “unrecognizable” due to cosmetic work. Lima addressed the commentary head-on, responding with a gorgeous selfie via Instagram Stories to remind people why someone else’s appearance is no one else’s business.

The Victoria’s Secret model — who is a mom of three and a stepmom of two, plus a dog mom to three — shut it all down swiftly, captioning the selfie, “The face of a tired mom of one teenage girl, two preteens, a 1-year-old learning to walk, and three dogs,” adding, “Thanks for your concern.”

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Lima and her partner, movie and TV producer Andre Lemmers, welcomed their first child, son Cyan, in August 2022. The 42-year-old shares daughters Sienna, 11, and Valentina, 14, with her ex-husband, Serbian basketball player Marko Jarić, and Lima is also a stepmom to Lemmers’ two children, Miah and Lupo.

But of course, despite all her accomplishments, including being one of the world’s most successful supermodels for more than two decades and having a big, beautiful blended family, it seems some trolls are determined to cut her down for daring to not look exactly the same as she did in her early twenties. Recently, people have criticized her body and her face, both of which are nonsensical given that she is just as beautiful as she has always been.

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In April, Lima told People that she struggles with accepting her postpartum body. “I struggle every day,” she said. “Every day, I have to remind myself, I’m human. I get insecure here and there. And then every day, I learn new things. And with age, your body reacts differently. But it’s okay. I’m learning.”

Online trolls criticize women in the public eye for aging “naturally” and then criticize them when they do whatever they can to look younger, an impossible standard that only serves to hurt all women. Bodies change and grow, and those sitting behind a keyboard to write nasty anonymous comments should only look inward and reflect a little bit, because… what is the point?