In an Instagram reel that has more than 110,000 likes so far, Olympian Ilona Maher clapped back regarding a comment speculating on her body mass index (BMI).
Body mass index has been called out time and time again as a deeply flawed metric of health, but internet trolls still love to invoke it when they’re trying to weight-shame. So when Olympic rugby player Ilona Maher, who is set to compete at the Paris Games, recently flagged a nasty comment speculating about her BMI, we couldn’t help fist-pumping her chill “so what?!” response. On July 10, Maher posted an Instagram reel responding to a comment that implied she was obese by BMI standards.
In addition, other factors, like pregnancy, age, and—as we mentioned with Maher—high muscle mass can also skew your score. What’s more, a 2023 study published in the journal PLOS One found that a BMI in the “overweight” category was generally not associated with an increased risk of premature death from any cause during a follow-up period of up to 20 years, highlighting the tool’s potential limitations. “So yeah,” Maher concluded in the reel. “I do have a BMI of 30. I am considered overweight.
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