{"id":200770,"date":"2025-10-22T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/suni-lee-begs-critics-to-stop-bullying-her\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:53:10","slug":"suni-lee-begs-critics-to-stop-bullying-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/suni-lee-begs-critics-to-stop-bullying-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Suni Lee Begs Critics to Stop &#8216;Bullying&#8217; Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><b>Suni Lee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has had enough of the ridicule surrounding her walk in the Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Olympic medalist shared a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/v\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TikTok<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><b>Ariana Grande\u2019s<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">successful<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> playing in the background, pleading with critics to stop the online bullying.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCan u guys stop bullying me?\u201d she wrote, prompting many fans to come to her defense in the comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One fan wrote, \u201cyou were on the runway and they were mad and at HOME\u201d. Another supporter chimed in writing, \u201cBullying THE Olympic GOLD medalist is crazy \ud83d\ude29\u201d. Someone else said, \u201cthey\u2019re mad jealous because a 5 foot badie got to be a VS model\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:150%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"photo-credit\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images for Victoria\u2019s Secret<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/fashion\/celebrity-style\/suni-lee-victorias-secret-fashion-show-2025-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marie Claire<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the 22-year-old opened up on why she wanted to participate in her first-ever Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStepping into something like the Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show felt like a dream outside of my comfort zone,\u201d she said. \u201cBut that\u2019s exactly why I said yes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee also explained that she wanted to represent minority women on such a global and iconic stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1424043\/suni-lee-reacts-to-victorias-secret-fashion-show-critics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing up<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I didn\u2019t see many girls who looked like me in spaces like this. To now be here as an athlete, as someone who\u2019s worked so hard to achieve her dreams, it feels powerful,\u201d she said. \u201cI want young girls to know they don\u2019t have to fit into just one box. You can chase Olympic gold and still own your femininity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to prepping for the show, the gymnast admitted she hadn\u2019t done much. \u201cHonestly, I didn\u2019t have much time to prepare for this, and that was probably for the best,\u201d she added. \u201cIt allowed me to show up here exactly as I am. Just me, not trying to be something I\u2019m not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She went on to say, \u201cI want young girls, especially those who look like me or come from communities like mine, to see that they can own every version of themselves, strong, soft, bold, or glamorous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Lee won the gold medal in the women\u2019s all-around, and became the first Hmong-American to represent the U.S. at the Olympics and to win gold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee also earned a silver medal in the team competition and a bronze medal on the uneven bars.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/suni-lee-begs-critics-to-stop-bullying-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suni Lee has had enough of the ridicule surrounding her walk in the Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show. The Olympic medalist shared a TikTok with Ariana Grande\u2019s successful playing in the background, pleading with critics to stop the online bullying.\u00a0 \u201cCan u guys stop bullying me?\u201d she wrote, prompting many fans to come to her defense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-200770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}