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"  Maria Kang, whose Facebook page describes her as &amp;quot;a dreamer, wife, mother, business owner and creator of &amp;#039;The Belly Ball,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; uploaded a fitspiration photo some time last year, as people with seemingly perfect bodies are wont to do. The image shows Kang posing with her three children and her washboard abs under the headline, &amp;quot;what&amp;#039;s your excuse?&amp;quot; The best part about this story is that I&amp;#039;m eating a cupcake right now and THAT&amp;#039;S MY EXCUSE but let&amp;#039;s get back on track. Kang thought nothing of the photo, and it sat quietly and happily on her page for a good while. But recently, it went viral. In the past few weeks, it&amp;#039;s received 16 million views and over 21,000 Facebook comments. This may or may not come as a surprise, but many of the comments were nasty! People! On the internet! Writing hateful things! Anonymously! I mean, knock me over with a feather \u2014 you really could in fact, because I do not have any muscle definition a la Kang or indeed any muscle definition whatsoever. At first Kang  penned an apology for her critics, but one of those &amp;quot;it&amp;#039;s not me, it&amp;#039;s you&amp;quot; apologies passive-aggressive people love writing. It begins with the line &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sorry you took an image and resonated with it in such a negative way&amp;quot; and then it gets worse. In interviews since, however, she&amp;#039;s acknowledged the sentiments were a bit false \u2014  speaking with Yahoo! Shine, Kang says she simply &amp;quot;wanted to inspire people.&amp;quot; (Though in a  Good Morning America interview this morning, she goes back on the defense, saying to her critics, &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t call you fat, I didn&amp;#039;t call you lazy.&amp;quot;) The harsh words from others, she says, &amp;quot;really hurt.&amp;quot; But then, I&amp;#039;m told, so does a good work-out. Photo Credit: mikebyerlyphoto.com  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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