I just want her forgiveness-Former playboy model Dani Mathers reaches out to 70 year old woman she body-shamed

Playboy model Dani Mathers has spoken about being forced to hide out in her mother’s home after being accused of bodyshaming an elderly woman by posting a naked photo of her to Snapchat.

The 30-year-old posted the picture  with the caption: “If I can’t unsee this, then you can’t either.”


Dani received huge backlash for the ‘bodyshaming’ image and was charged with invasion of privacy in Los Angeles..
Speaking for the first time since her court appearance, the model tearfully told ABC News :

 “I had my privacy taken away after I took someone else’s. To hide out at my mother's house at age 30 because of something I've done. It just felt really low.”

Dani maintained that she never intended to post the image publicly and had been trying to send the photo in a private Snapchat to a friend.

“I didn’t have an intention of breaking the law,”“I just wasn’t thinking, to be honest. My intention was to reply to the conversation I was having with my friend.
"I know the difference between right and wrong and chose wrong.”I haven't been able to actually meet the woman involved, although I've wanted to," she said.
"So there's just been a lot of unresolved issues.
“I never meant to hurt her. I never ever intended on showing the world this photo. And that I hope that she could forgive me. I don't expect her to forget. I don't expect her to like me. I just, I really want her forgiveness.”

She said that she apologized in an email to Playboy executives about the incident and that the decision to no longer work together was mutual.

"So there's been sort of a mutual 'I don't really want to work with them at this moment,' and they can't really work with me, due to the sensitivity of this issue," "It's still very current, and I don't want them to receive any backlash from this as well. So we've just sort of walked away from each other. We still have a great relationship."

Dani pleaded no contest to an invasion of privacy charge in Los Angeles.

"I'm accepting of it," she said. "I think that the option between 45 — I think it was 45 — days in jail or cleaning up graffiti was two strange options, but I'm excited to clean up our streets. This is just one more step into learning from my mistake, and I do start this week."

As well as community service, she was banned from using a mobile phone in places where people are in a state of undress or have an expectation of privacy.

She's also banned from posting photos of people to social media without their consent.


ABC