The Victim In Dani Mathers' Body-Shaming Snapchat Is Reportedly "Humiliated"
• Dani Mathers, a former Playboy model, posted a body-shaming Snapchat of a 70-year-old woman at the gym.
• The post went viral, and Mathers was charged with invasion of privacy; she was sentenced to three months of probation and community service.
• The woman in the Snapchat is staying anonymous, but is apparently worried about being identified in public and feels "humiliated."
Former Playboy playmate Dani Mathers was sentenced to three months of probation and community service in May, after she posted a photo on Snapchat of a naked 70-year-old woman at the gym. "If I can't unsee this, then you can't either," she wrote in her caption.
The woman in the viral photo is staying anonymous and isn't speaking directly to the press, but spoke in depth with City Attorney Mike Feuer, who talked to the Los Angeles Timesabout how she is handling the fallout.
Feuer said the woman was willing to testify at trial, but "has been humiliated" and "wishes the whole chapter, this painful chapter, would close." He was struck by one particular wish of hers: that she get restitution of $60 so she could buy a new backpack, because she worried people could identify her by the backpack featured in the Snapchat. The incident had that much of a "severe impact" on her privacy, he noted.
And though Mathers told Good Morning America she tried to reach out to the victim, Feuer said the woman is surprised to hear that. The woman "told me she is unaware of any attempt by Ms. Mathers to reach out to her," Feuer said. "Ms. Mathers is attempting to portray herself as the victim. She is not the victim. She is the perpetrator."
But in the end, Feuer hopes the woman will realize the positive impact her case had on bringing issues like body shaming to light. He has sponsored a bill that passed the state Senate that would criminalize distributing photos that invade people's privacy like this. "When we talked, I said to her that the courage that she has displayed here will have a meaningful impact on preventing anybody else from being victimized in the future," he said, "both because of the case itself and because this case is the catalyst for [new] legislation."
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