Yumi Nu

Yumi Nu made one of the covers of the 2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, and Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson was not kind about the plus-sized ...

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The academic has quit the platform in a huff after he was criticised for calling the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Yumi Nu 'not beautiful'

What makes Peterson’s aversion to criticism extra hilarious is that one of the rules in his famous book is “Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.” Peterson’s own house, alas, is a complete mess. One rule for public life in the modern age – certainly one that every woman in the public eye has discovered – is that you have to develop a very thick skin. There was the infamous time, for example, when the Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra accused Peterson of peddling “ fascist mysticism”. Peterson, in turn, called Mishra an “arrogant, racist son of a bitch” and proclaimed: “If you were in my room at the moment, I’d slap you happily.” “The endless flood of vicious insult [sic] is really not something that can be experienced anywhere else,” Peterson tweeted on Monday, “If I have something to say I’ll write an article or make a video. If Twitter had been around during the age of enlightenment we’d presumably have had Immanuel Kant furiously leaning over his keyboard typing: “the Queen of Prussia is NOT hot. For now, however, he wants us all to know that Twitter is a hellhole which makes your life infinitely worse.

Find out what Yumi Nu said about her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover and how it would have changed her body image if she saw it when she was younger.

So for me to be on the cover of Vogue Japan meant being seen and being honored by a culture that often makes people with bigger bodies like mine feel invisible,” she wrote. While she acknowledged the negative role social media can play in body image, Nu said seeing people who looked like her on Instagram helped her accept her own body. In an interview with People, Nu opened up about the impact that her cover appearance may have on young, plus size, Asian girls.

Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has slammed Yumi Nu, a plus-size model, after she appeared on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover.

While talking to the magazine for this year's edition, Nu said she was very excited to be a part of the project and "knew it would feel different than my rookie year.” She is the niece of American DJ and producer Steve Aoki. “I felt more confident and less afraid going into it, which brought a new energy to my shoot. As for her ethnicity, Nu was born in America but she has Japanese and Dutch roots. It felt like Asian representation was last on the list. As of writing, Peterson's tweet has more than 3000 retweets and over 40K likes.