

"As a young woman I feel violated."

Sara Sampaio is a model who gets paid to pose in lingerie and bikinis for a living, but she wants to draw a very clear line over the difference between a swimsuit spread and recent paparazzi photos that showed her sunbathing topless.

The 25-year-old Victoria's Secret Angel was recently vacationing with her boyfriend in the South of France when she was photographed without her consent. The photos of the couple lounging on a yacht — Sara laying out without a top on — were then published online.

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"I had no idea that there was someone far away with a big telescopic lense taking pictures of me," she wrote in an "open letter to paparazzi and press" that she posted on her Facebook page Saturday.

"What kind of society do we live in where people are paid money to spy on others, take pictures and invade their privacy," Sara wrote. "As a young woman I feel violated. Not only do I wake up to see pictures of myself all over the internet but then I also have to suffer abuse from people body shaming me. I'm proud of my figure. I know I'm not perfect, far from it, but it's who I am and I work hard to stay in shape. Why are people so quick to objectify women, to comment that this part of their body is too small, or that that part is too big."

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She ended the letter with this: "To the person that sold my picture to the press, I really hope that one day you don't wake up with your daughter's naked picture all over the internet. To the press, please stop funding people to take these pictures and to the people that hate and body shame, let's show more compassion and love."

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