Instagram censors the singer for exposing herself in photos on the website

Apr 30, 2014 07:40 GMT  ·  By
This is one of the photos that started the scandal on Instagram, but with the essential bits taken out
   This is one of the photos that started the scandal on Instagram, but with the essential bits taken out

Rihanna is young, beautiful and successful and she's making sure that everyone knows this. She's not ashamed of her body, quite the contrary in fact, and that's why she's not shy about flaunting it all over social media.

Her personal profiles on websites such as Instagram are filled with raunchy photos taken from magazine photo shoots and the worst part is that they keep getting updated on an almost daily basis. Since the Bajan singer is very much in demand these days and magazines from all over the world are queuing up at her door to offer photo opportunities, it doesn't look like she'll be running out of material anytime soon.

Well, Instagram would like to have a word with her about that. According to TMZ, the photo sharing website has cautioned the singer about posting risqué photos of herself on her Instagram profile. The scandal erupted when Rihanna posted some very revealing photos of herself from a photo shoot she did with Lui, a French skin magazine.

In those photos, essential bits from Rihanna’s chest appeared in all their glory. Artsy as it may have been, the image was quickly taken down by the site's managers because they violated Instagram's rules about nudity.

The photo in question showed Rihanna in a bathing suit, without her top on and revealing everything to the camera, as she appeared to be sun bathing or getting ready for the pool. It was enough skin to make the photo-sharing site to yank them off in a hurry, it seems.

Not to be outdone, the rebel singer simply took her business elsewhere, and posted the incriminating photos on Twitter instead. She was visibly bothered by Instagram's censorship and didn't hesitate to voice her disappointment over the matter.

She took a photo one fan made of her and uploaded it to her profile. In it, Rihanna is made to look like a regular, old-fashioned woman. The image has a message on it that reads “[Rihanna's] next magazine cover if it was up to Instagram,” and it clearly pokes at Instagram's removal of the incriminating photos.

And to make her “revenge” complete, Rihanna took to Twitter and posted several other NSFW photos from other photo shoots in which she doesn't lose only her top, but also her bottom, as fans get to see some very intimate tan lines. We can't really show you the pictures in question, but you get the idea.