A British model says she was left furious after the Spanish government used her image without permission and edited out her prosthetic leg. The photo was used as part of a body positivity campaign launched by Spain’s equality ministry.
But Sian Green-Lord, 32, said she only found out about the campaign when friends messaged her about it. She is the second woman featured in the campaign to say her photos were used without permission.
On Friday, Nyome Nicholas-Williams, from London, told the BBC that an image from her Instagram page was used in the poster released by the Spanish Institute for Women.
It features an illustration of five women – including one who has had a mastectomy – on a beach underneath the slogan “summer is ours too”. Ms Green-Lord is seen at the bottom left of the image.
Speaking in an Instagram story, she said she was left “shaking with rage” after she saw her photos had been edited to remove her prosthetic leg. She said her swimsuit had also been altered.
“I don’t know how to even explain the amount of anger that I’m feeling right now,” she said in the video. “There’s one thing using my image without my permission. But there’s another thing editing my body.”
The influencer and mother-of-one’s leg was amputated after she was hit by a taxi while on holiday in New York in 2013.
On Thursday, the campaign’s creator, Arte Mapache, issued an apology for using the images without permission.
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