American rugby union player Ilona Maher has often been criticized for her masculine body, where people are making fun of her sexuality, saying she needs a wife instead of a husband.
As the 28-year-old Olympian weighs 200 lbs (90 KG) and stands 5 feet 10 inches (78 cm), many people on social media sites call her man.
By watching her big athletic body and her physical attributes, people are making comments and disrespecting her without caring about her feelings.
Recently, people have created Ilona Maher’s sexuality-related controversy, where some even questioned if she was gay or transgender. However, Ilona Maher is a woman by birth and has been confirmed to be straight.
Despite the information and news, people are still searching for Ilona Maher’s wife to make fun of her body.
Ilona Maher confirmed it does affect her when people call her a man and a dude!
As people continue to make fun of Ilona Maher’s body, a girl on TikTok asks her feelings about people’s opinions of her body, saying, “What are your thoughts on being commonly perceived as masculine?”
Ilona Maher, who won the bronze medal winner at the Summer Olympics in Paris, appeared happy to finally share her feelings about these people’s opinions and said, “It would not be honest if I said it does not affect me at all. It does affect me in a way when I read those.”
Ilona Maher revealed that from a young age, people have been criticizing her body, questioning her beauty and gender, and as a young woman, it hurt her so much.
However, now she has learned to ignore people’s opinions about her by loving her body as it is. She confirmed feeling “Beautiful and feminine in her own way.“
Even though Ilona Maher has overcome this trauma, there are many girls out there who are facing these every single day and becoming depressed.
Maher’s main concern is these girls; as she said, it annoys her when people also say the same thing to other girls who have broad shoulders, muscles, and strong jawlines.
Sharing her experience, Ilona Maher sends a message to those women: “I want all those girls to know that you get to feel you are beautiful in your own way. People will say a lot of shit cause they are insecure jut to make you feel that way.”
Additional Information
- Ilona Maher was born on August 12, 1996, in Burlington, Vermont, U.S., to a native mother. Her full name is Ilona Delsing Rosa Maher.
- Before pursuing a rugby career, Ilona Maher wanted to become a nurse like her mother. She graduated from Quinnipiac University with a degree in nursing.
- Ilona Maher is probably single and unmarried in 2024, as there are no details about her husband or boyfriend.
