Egypt Sherrod, the host of HGTV’s Flipping Virgins, has recently taken a stand against body shaming.
On Friday, the 45-year-old real estate broker took to Instagram to stand up for herself by addressing a comment made on her figure on Twitter.
Sherrod shared a screenshot of her interaction with the Twitter user, who asked, “Why did Egypt Sherrod get her booty done?” Sherrod replied, “I didn’t… I had a baby over 40!”
In the caption, Sherrod cleared the air by saying she has “absolutely no shame about my body.”
She wrote, “Body shaming is something we should never do, especially when you have no idea what your[sic] talking about. When you have a baby over 40 it hits different. You don’t just snap back. Especially because I couldn’t breast feed since the docs had to dry me out due to fluid in my lungs.”
“So YES I am dragging a continent behind me. And it is what it is… Deal with it! And NO I did not get implants,” she added. “I actually got a reduction. But the damn things grew back after Harper.”
Sherrod gave birth to daughter Harper Skye in February 2019. She and her husband Mike Jackson (DJ Fadelf) also share daughter Kendall, 10.
Jackson also stood by his wife. He wrote in the comment section, “I’ll never respond to folks again, because I never pay attention to negative nonsense,” before clarifying comments he had made in an earlier Instagram Live.
He said, “What I was trying to get across on our ig live is that: 1 my wife has always had a healthy rear end 2. No she hasn’t work 3. What other people have to say don’t matter 4. Yes I love every inch, circumference, slope etc of it 5. She’s super sexy 6. In my opinion, Asking if someone with a natural body has had some work done is compliment, because you like what you see! 7. I’m stepping off my soap box.”
In February 2019, Sherrod told PEOPLE about her second daughter’s complicated birth, which prompted her to go on “a heart-healthy cardio diet.” After going home with Harper, Sherrod had to be “rushed back to the hospital” due to breathing trouble and was treated for “fluid overload.”
She explained at the time, “My body was holding all the fluid to the point where I got edema … but then it had also gotten into my lungs. When I was lying back to go to sleep, I was essentially drowning in this fluid and that was the pressure that I was feeling.”
The host of Married to Real Estate also said she experienced symptoms of cardiomyopathy, which she said runs in her family and “can rear its ugly head during a pregnancy.” She said she undergoes health monitoring regularly after giving birth as a result of cardiomyopathy, a disorder of the heart muscle.
