What Really Happened Between Jonathan Cheban and the Bloggers He Body-Shamed

Reality television star and frequent Kardashian sidekick Jonathan Cheban just took Internet feuding one step too far.

After vegan lifestyle bloggers Stephanie and Nancy Sidley, the twin sisters behind the Instagram account sophisticatedvegan, commented “furhag” on a since-deleted post of Cheban’s — in which he was allegedly wearing fur — he took to their page to respond, specifically targeting one of the women’s physical features in his comments.

On a number of posts, Cheban made derogatory remarks, including “get some lips,” “worst looking vegan alive. If that’s vegan give me beef!” and even called the woman fat in one post.

The two captured his comments reposted them on their account, adding the caption, “@jonathancheban trolled my IG to tell me, I’m ugly for wearing glasses, I need lip injections, I need a chin implant, I’m the worst looking vegan alive and I’m fat. If I’m all those things, maybe he should be the one wearing glasses?”

Referring to Cheban’s comments, Stephanie Sidley tells Yahoo Style, “They made me feel awful and put me in a really dark place. I don’t think women should be spoken to like that by a man. I think that’s ridiculous.”

According to Cheban’s publicist, the 43-year-old felt he was being stalked by the Sidley sisters, and was not wearing real fur in the picture the bloggers commented on. The representative also explained that as an animal lover, Cheban was extremely offended to be called out for behavior he did not engage in.

However, Stephanie has a different take. “I don’t believe it was faux fur — absolutely not,” she says.

The Sidley sisters also don’t understand why they were singled out in his retort, as they allege that many others made the same comment on his post.

“There were probably 55 to 60 comments that said ‘#furhag’ on it. We are vegan and we are animal rights activists. That’s our gig. So it infuriated me because he might as well have been wearing my dog around his neck. I joined in the party, and I said ‘#furhag’ along with many other people,” Stephanie explains. “That night he goes onto my page on Instagram — sought me out for some reason after he deleted my comment — and just completely attacked my look.”

In a since-deleted tweet that the vegan bloggers captured, Cheban wrote on one of the sisters, “She stalks my life. She’s so excited I wrote her and gave her life she can’t stop talking about it.”

In response to claims that the sisters encouraged their friends and followers to leave comments on Cheban’s account, the Sidley twins were firm in their denial.

“None of my friends would ever comment. That would mess with our business,” Stephanie says. “We have personal accounts for our actual friends that don’t even follow @sophisticatedvegan. @Sophisticatedvegan is something my twin sister and I started as an activist group to talk to other sophisticated activists. We don’t know any of the people who follow us right now.”

Stephanie explains that she is used to receiving feedback from people who oppose her beliefs, but she felt she had to draw the line at Cheban’s body-shaming comments.

“He took the time to write these comments on eight different posts. I would have let it go if he had called me a vegan douchebag because I get called that all the time. That’s fine. But when he took it to the misogynistic place — and I’m gonna say that because we’re at a really weird time in the world and in America where I take offense to that — that’s when I wanted to speak up about it,” Stephanie says. “I got a lot of support from women out there who said, ‘He’s done the same thing to me.'”

They’re also worried about the impact his comments could have on women that don’t have a lot of confidence. Stephanie shares, “We’ve always had a lot of confidence, so the first thing I thought when I felt bad hearing about the chin and the lips and all this stuff was ‘Oh my goodness — could you imagine the poor women that don’t have a lot of confidence? How bad they must feel if I’m feeling bad right now?’ That’s what I felt bad about.”

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