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Liam McInerney & Peter Diamond

Mum with UK’s biggest eyebrows faces social services threats from trolls

A woman who was branded an "unfit mother" because of her eye-brows has revealed the ongoing "extreme" criticism she receives on a daily basis.

Sammie-Jo Hailford claims her giant brows have been the cause of being trolled online and even verbally abused in the street.

However, the 27-year-old has defiantly declared she has no plans to change her eye-brow look anytime soon.

On one extreme occasion Sammie-Jo, a mum-of-two, claims she was threatened with having social services called on her because of the way she looks.

Sammie-Jo from Grimsby, said: “People have said I shouldn’t be a mum and they are going to ring social services because of my eyebrows. It gets really extreme on the internet.

Sammie-Jo says she has nothing to fear or hide if trolls want to ring social services (Sammie-Jo Hailford)

“They can call social services because I have nothing to hide. My eyebrows don’t determine whether I’m a good mother or not.”

Sammi-Jo started using liquid liner to make her brows bigger one year ago. She said: “I’m not a massive fan of beauty standards today.

“I feel like people are socially conditioned to only be beautiful if they are part of these standards and I just don’t agree with it and I don’t like it. I just like to make a statement and the brows do that for me.

“They started off normal size and they just got bigger over time and I just like to look different.

“It would be cool if they were Britain’s biggest eyebrows. I’ve now created a hashtag called ‘bigger the brow bigger, the boy’ because it’s true and that’s what I say to my friends.”

Sammie-Jo has recently joined TikTok and attracted more than 75,000 followers in four weeks, according to Daily Star.

She has amounted over 75,000 followers on TikTok in recent months due to her 'unique' look (Sammie-Jo Hailford)

She said: “People say I don’t get boys because I have big eyebrows but that is wrong. I have had quite a few men in my inbox telling me I’m beautiful and saying they would date me.

“They always mention the eyebrows first, so maybe there is a fetish there.”

She added: “Younger girls will laugh at me in the street, I’ve had that a couple of times but they do it between themselves. The worst comments are online. I get horrible comments about my makeup and they also take the mick out of my teeth too.”

Sammie-Jo using her platform to encourage people to be who they want to be. She said: “I’ve not had the best life before now and I’ve suffered a lot of trauma and abuse from people.

“I guess the past three years I have found myself and I went through therapy to realise I am worthy no matter how I look or what I decide to do.”

The mum added: “Trolling doesn’t affect me now. I’m trying to raise awareness to the fact that people can be different. That’s how I fight them back.”

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