Model accused of body-shaming woman at gym to face court

Playboy model Dani Mathers will not be able to avoid a court date for Snapchatting a naked photo of a fellow gym user.

She hit headlines in July last year when she shared a photo of another woman at her LA gym on the photo messaging app with the words "If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either". The model was widely accused of body-shaming online at the time and is now set to be tried for invading the 70 year-old woman's privacy, according to Jezebel. Under Californian law it is illegal to photograph or record an 'identifiable person' in a residence, changing room, or tanning booth. Mathers' legal team had tried to argue that the law was too ambiguous and that the woman could not clearly been identified, but a judge has ruled that this is not the case. The trial will begin on 26 May. In an apology on her Snapchat account shortly after she shared the original photo, Mathers said the photo was "a huge mistake." "I have chosen to do what I do for a living because I love the female body," she said. "I know body-shaming is wrong and I know that that's not what I'm about, that's not the type of person that I am."