Rebekah Vardy hits back at cruel online trolls who called her an 'ugly hag'

Rebekah Vardy in the stands before the FIFA World Cup Group G match at Kaliningrad stadium
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Hatty Collier30 June 2018

Rebekah Vardy has hit back at cruel online trolls who branded her an “ugly hag” and posted vile messages about the rest of the England team’s wives and girlfriends.

Jamie Vardy’s wife, 36, was targeted by trolls on social media, while cruel taunts were also posted on Russian sports streaming website championat.com.

The England team’s wives and girlfriends were branded “ugly” and Mrs Vardy was criticised for “always being next to husband Jamie” and being “unemployed with two children from two different husbands.”

But she was unfazed by the jibes and posted a tongue-in-cheek response to the nasty comments on her Instagram account.

The mother of four uploaded a photo which read: “People talk about having an inner child. I don’t. I have an inner old lady who says inappropriate things, calls everyone a c*** and wants to be in bed by 8pm.”

The image was captioned: “Seeing as I’m being called a HAG by the delightful trolls I thought I would adopt this approach.” She also included the middle finger emoji.

One person had posted on the championat.com website in Russian: “British women are as ugly as my life. If British women were coming here, our men need guards.”

The Loose Women panellist and former I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here contestant was inundated with messages of support after the post.

England fan Rebekah Vardy with her daughter Megan
Jeremy Selwyn

One supporter said: “You can’t do right from wrong no matter what you do. You have lovely kids, well looked after you keep your private life to yourself that’s what people don’t like.”

Another wrote: “@beckyvardy the more successful you are, the prettier you are, the more you excel in life, the more the pathetic trolls in this world will hate you - for one simple reason - they are insanely jealous of you and your life. The best thing you can do, is ignore them and carry on living your best life, because you know full well who you are and what you are worth, ps who even uses the word hag anymore.”

One fan said: “Just ignore them, says everything about them! You are beautiful.”

The wives and girlfriends pose for a snap(L-R): Millie Savage, Gemma Acton, Megan Davison, Becky Vardy, Annabel Peyton, Fern Hawkins, Shannon Horlock, Annie Kilner and Lucia Loi
Becky Vardy/Instgram

Mrs Vardy was one of the last women standing, posting an Instagram snap of the sun rising over St Petersburg at 3.56am.

She has taken children Megan, 13, Taylor, eight, Sofia, three and 17-month-old Finlay out of school to watch the matches.

Their relatively low-key presence has drawn favourable contrast with the antics of the WAGs in Baden Baden during Germany 2006, a media circus which threatened to overshadow the team’s performance.

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