My Big Fat Fabulous Life’s Whitney claps back at body-bashing troll and snaps ‘being fat doesn’t mean I’m ugly, b***h!’

WHITNEY Thore has clapped back at a troll who claimed she would be "pretty" if she lost weight.

Taking part in an Instagram Stories Q&A the TLC star received a question which read: "Why don't you try to get skinny? You'd be pretty."

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Joined by her best friend Buddy, the pair sighed in exasperation before Whitney laughed and said: "Being fat doesn't mean I'm ugly b**ch."

Buddy then added: "Ugh, why are you here?"

Elsewhere, fans were particularly curious about her love life and asked if she was dating again, to which she answered: "Thank you but no, I don't think I'll be interested in dating anyone for a long time."

This prompted another fan to ask about her sexuality, which she described: " in the past. And if I met a woman with whom I fell in love or just wanted to sleep with, I would not question it."

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Whitney, the star of , recently proudly flaunted her curves in a sexy bikini after dumping her cheating fiance, Chase Severino.

She also treated her fans to a throwback from 18 years ago where she was almost unrecognizable.

while enjoying the sand and waves at a Puerto Rico beach.

The reality TV star smiled flirtily at the camera in a black and red bikini as she popped her leg, followed by another one where she tugged on her bikini bottoms.

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Along with the two sexy snaps, the reality TV star wrote: " heard it was #NationalBikiniDay."

The star also surprised her fans with a throwback picture of her and her best friend, Heather, from 18 years ago.

In the picture, Heather is sitting on Whitney's lap and the two look like completely different people, despite Whitney's smile shining through.

Last month, the dancer has  following the disastrous .

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“I learned this news myself fairly recently," she told  magazine.

"It wasn’t something I’d been sitting with for months and months, but once I saw rumors about our relationship — after I finally deleted our photos on Instagram, for example — I knew I just wanted to get it over with and announce it so I could fully start to move on."