'My Big Fat Fabulous Life's Whitney Way Thore Emotionally Responds to Criticism for Filming Her Mom's Funeral

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Whitney Way Thore is addressing the criticism against her. One day after it was revealed that season 11 of will feature footage of Barbara «Babs» Thore's funeral, Whitney took to Instagram to defend her family's decision to allow cameras to capture the somber occasion.

Whitney shared a screenshot of a text message exchange with her father, Glenn, and brother, Hunter.«I've read some of the comments that are critical of us allowing Babs funeral to be filmed,» Glenn wrote in his message to his kids. «When I was making the decision to allow her funeral to be filmed I thought about people like Princess Diana or more recently the Queen of England whose family felt that having their love one shared with an adoring public was the reason to put their privacy aside.»Whitney responded to her dad by writing, «Of course, that's why we did [film the funeral].»«You made the right decision,» she wrote to her dad. «Don't read the comments anywhere except on my posts — everywhere else people are more likely to be heinous.

The normal supportive fans comment on my stuff. Love you, Daddy! Mommy is so very proud of you!»Hunter agreed, chiming in, «Whitney is right.

Love you guys.»Whitney added a lengthy caption to her post, a tearful, audio version of which was also included.«I know a lot of people hate me, and I don't care why,» she began. «I know that I've dealt with stalkers, vandals, death threats, and harassment online and off to the point of developing severe anxiety and almost never leaving my house.»«I've dealt with this for the last decade, mostly very quietly, but PLEASE, I am asking some of y'all to think.