The former Corrie star lashed out at a magazine – who she chose not to name – after they sent her an interview questions focused on her weight.
The 30-year-old took to Twitter to share the email, and her post has since gone viral racking up more than 11,000 likes.
She wrote: “An open response to an interview I was asked to do last week.
“Magazines like this constantly reduce women to what they eat.
“I am not a dress size. I am not a number on a scale.
“I am done with a media that profits from the insecurities of women.
“Wonder if they’ll print it?”
She shared a photo of the questions, which asked her height, weight, dress size, her eating habits, guilty food pleasure, favourite body part and other personal questions.
In the response for weight, she wrote: “I don’t weight myself in pounds or kilograms.
“I weigh a career doing what I love, a loving, caring family and kick ass friends.
“I weigh my women’s rights campaigning, my writing, my creativity, my relationships, my health.
“I weigh a sister, a daughter, a friend, a partner.
“I am as heavy as my fight against mental health issues and self-image and I am as light as the jokes I tell to distract from them.
“I weigh myself on what I do with my body, not by its number on a scale.”
And when asked what she eats all day, she wrote “pizza” for every meal, and when asked to go into detail, she said “Dominoes”.
Nicola says her favourite part of her body is her mind, and when asked what her dress size is, she wrote: “Why? I bet you never ask a guy for his inside leg.”
Lastly, responding to how she spends her ‘off’ days, she wrote: “By burning s****y magazines like yours.”
And she posted another update, revealing she had been requested to remove her post.
Nicola wrote: “The magazine have requested that I delete my tweet.
“The PR company got in touch and asked me to “be a dear and take it down please”…
“BE A DEAR!!! Despite the fact I haven’t actually named any of them.”
Her very honest post has been liked by thousands of people, who praised her responses.
One person said: “Unbelievable! Thank you for treating their questions with the disdain they deserve.”
Another wrote: “You're a hero. I've spent my whole life feeling like I wasn't good enough and that was largely due to mags and TV with their representation.”
A third commented: “Good grief and they wonder why today's teenagers are so low in self esteem, Bravo Nicola brilliant response.2
And another wrote: “We need more people in the public eye like yourselves to stand up to these magazines like you have.
“I'm so sick of seeing front covers ripping women apart for how they look.”
Numerous people have also called for Nicola to name the magazine, but so far she’s keeping mum.
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