article_snippet.sent: Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for a controversial weight loss advertisement to be pulled, as Katie Hopkins slammed those complaining about the posters as 'chubsters'.
article_snippet.sent: But the campaign, which promotes the brand's weight loss collection, has attracted the ire of many social media users and body image campaigners, with some of the posters even being defaced.
article_snippet.sent: More than 45,000 people have signed a petition calling for this controversial Protein World weight loss advertisement featuring a woman in a bikini to be pulled .
article_snippet.sent: A change.org petition calling for the removal of the adverts has now attracted more than 45,000 signatures, while critics of the billboard, unhappy at the insinuation that only those who resemble the model, 24-year-old Renee Somerfield, have the appropriate figures for the beach, have started a hashtag #everybodysready.
article_snippet.sent: The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has received 216 complaints about the ad, and a spokeswoman said the general nature of the complaints is that the ad is 'offensive, irresponsible and harmful because The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) promotes an unhealthy body image'.
article_snippet.sent: A change.org petition calling for the removal of the adverts has now attracted more than 43,000 signatures, while critics of the billboard have started a hashtag #everybodysready .