Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News

This plus-size model has revealed she was put on a diet by a doctor at just nine months old and has slammed her critics for “fatphobia”.

Argentine model Brenda Mato made the comments after she was invited onto the ‘Incorrectas’ TV show in Argentina but she was unhappy with the questioning of hosts Mica Viciconte and Celina Rucci, who asked her about her health.

She wrote online: “I have never gone through this situation, a person focusing on getting an answer from me, claiming that I am a sick person, that I was promoting unhealthy things and a lot of things I did not want to answer.

“This is ‘gordofobia’ (fatphobia).”

Speaking to local media outlet Infobae after the show, she said: “I was put on a diet when I was only nine months old. The paediatrician told my mum that I was overweight and I had to restrict my food. I was only fed milk for three months.”

The “body positive” activist, who searches for the acceptance of all bodies, says she is “fed up” of “people asking me how a fat person could be fat”.

She says when she was a child “they (her parents) never talked to me in a negative way about my body, if I wanted sweets they did not tell me ‘no’ because I was fat.”

She says as she became a teenager and her body developed “it was crazy the level of confusion that stereotypes can cause around you, the cultural beliefs. You cannot be thin enough.”

Her first modelling job came in 2012 when one of her friends wanted a “normal woman” for her clothing brand photoshoot and called her. She says it was never her dream to become a model.

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