Maria Thattil lashes out at ‘every horny male’ for making sexual comments on her Instagram page

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star Maria Thattil has lashed out at ‘every horny male’ making sexual comments about her after she shared a reel of herself enjoying a ‘cold plunge’ in the ocean to Instagram on Thursday.

Maria, who rose to fame as Miss Universe Australia in 2020, wore a high-cut g-string swimsuit in the clip, which attracted a string of sexually-explicit comments. 

‘Listen. I am blocking every horny male incapable of watching that reel and not typing some kind of perverse comment,’ the irate star wrote. 

Furious: I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! star Maria Thattil has lashed out at ‘every horny male’ making sexual comments about her after she shared a reel of herself enjoying a ‘cold plunge’ in the ocean to Instagram on Thursday

‘Already blocked four. GTFO [Get the f**k out] if you’re going to defend it because my a** is visible,’ she added. 

Maria went on to say that just because she shared the reel with her 236,000 followers on her open account, it doesn’t mean men are ‘entitled’ to comment. 

‘Yes. It’s a great a**. It doesn’t entitle people to write lewd sh*t. Control yourselves you aren’t animals,’ she fumed. 

‘I can exist with parts of my body visible without it inviting gross comments.’ 

Not taking it: Maria, who rose to fame as Miss Universe Australia in 2020, wore a high-cut g-string swimsuit in the clip, which attracted a string of sexually-explicit comments

‘Women can feel good about ourselves FOR ourselves,’ she finished.  

But Maria didn’t stop there, skewering the commentators yet again over their commentary. 

The star even shared the clip again, asking why she has to be covered up to avoid unwanted attention. 

‘Listen. I am blocking every horny male incapable of watching that reel and not typing some kind of perverse comment,’ the irate star wrote 

‘Is [covering up] to avoid gross comments and unwanted attention? If so, the onus shouldn’t be on me,’ she argued.  

‘It should be on the people responsible for that behaviour.’ 

Maria was just announced as a columnist for Stellar magazine. 

Her public profile gained traction when she appeared on the last season of Ten’s ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!’ reality series. 

‘Is [covering up] to avoid gross comment and unwanted attention? If so, the onus shouldn’t be on me,’ she wrote defiantly as she shared the clip again

On the series she came out as bisexual, but said she’d kept her sexuality hidden for a long time because there were ‘many homophobic sentiments in [her] school around being a lesbian’.   

She revealed on Thursday to WHO magazine she’s no longer scared of dating women in public, after previously admitting she was worried how it might be perceived. 

‘I’m no longer scared of the narrative being taken out of my hands,’ she told the publication. 

Speaking out: Maria revealed on Thursday she’s no longer scared of dating women in public, after previously admitting she was worried how others would perceive it

The model and I’m a Celebrity star added: ‘I’ve been dating casually for about a year, some men and some women, and I don’t care anymore who sees or what they say.’ 

Maria, who is a second-generation Australian born to Indian immigrants, also discussed her passion for activism which has stemmed from her ‘lived experiences’.

‘I’ll always be brown and queer,’ she said. ‘Activism isn’t about a hashtag; it’s about showing up for what you believe in every day.’

Opening up: Maria came out as bisexual on I’m A Celebrity. She said at the time she’d kept her sexuality hidden because there were ‘homophobic sentiments in [her] school around being a lesbian’