Model posted picture of herself naked and pregnant, standing ‘in her full power’, to celebrate Mother’s Day
It is a black-and-white photograph of a heavily pregnant Erin O’Connor touching her baby bump with an expression of maternal bliss on her face.
For the 48-year-old model, who has worked for Dior, Versace, Alexander McQueen and Chanel, it conveys the “abundance of life being right there” under her fingertips when she was pregnant. But to Instagram it was merely a nude photo of a woman’s body.
O’Connor revealed on Friday that after she posted the photo on the social media platform to celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK on 15 March, Instagram removed her post for breaching “nudity guidelines”.
O’Connor said Meta, which owns Instagram, had messaged her to explain that the photo had been deleted for breaching these guidelines.
