Declan Rice’s long-term girlfriend Lauren Fryer has deleted all of her Instagram pictures after receiving a barrage of abuse online over her appearance.
Lauren, 25, who is the childhood sweetheart of Arsenal player Declan Rice, also 25, wiped all posts from her Instagram page in recent days after finding herself the target of cruel online trolls.
She was taunted for her appearance, with the bullying first starting in December last year when an anonymous account told England international team member Declan he ‘could do better’.
Recently, Declan was told he had ‘low standards’ for being in a relationship with Lauren, who is the mother to their 20-month-old son, Jude.
While Lauren still has 64,000 followers on Instagram and has kept her profile public rather than private, she has deleted all her pictures and videos amid the abuse, prompting reality star Liberty Poole, 24, to speak out.
Television personality Liberty, who appeared on the seventh series of Love Island in 2022 and Love Island All Stars earlier this year, wrote on her Instagram Stories: ‘I think she’s beautiful this is crazy.
‘What happened to celebrating different body types and embracing how we are all individually made.
‘Beauty standards these days are unrealistic and everyone’s gone mad because of social media.
‘I’m going to keep preaching about it till I die. Time for change, this can’t continue.’
Sportsman Declan has been romantically involved with Lauren for nearly eight years, but the couple prefer to conduct their relationship away from the public eye.
In August 2022, he appeared to confirm the birth of his first child with partner Lauren by revealing a tattoo dedicated to a newborn boy during a game when he played for West Ham United.
He prompted speculation at the time that he had welcomed a son, named Jude, with his long-term girlfriend earlier that month by exposing a tattoo of the child’s name and apparent birth date – August 7.
Jude’s star-sign, Leo – characterised as a symbol of self-confidence and attractiveness – also featured within the delicate inking on then West Ham captain Rice’s lower left arm.
Despite a preference for privacy, the couple let their hair down during a rare public appearance at the Reading Festival in 2021.
They were pictured rubbing shoulders with notorious former Oasis hellraiser Liam Gallagher following his headline performance at the annual event.
Rice had previously admitted that his long-term girlfriend is jealous of his bond with Chelsea ace Mason Mount – a childhood friend from their time together at the west London club’s academy.
He told The Sun: ‘My missus is quite worried. I’m genuinely being serious. She’s quite worried. Oh she’s just always: “You two . . . you love him more than you love me”. Honestly. We just get it in the neck all the time. But they need to understand the friendship.’
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