Model with hairy legs 'received rape threats' after appearing in campaign for Adidas - all because she doesn't shave (17 Pics)

A model who appeared in a campaign for Adidas claims she has received rape threats because she doesn't shave her legs.

Arvida Bystrom is a 26-year-old model, photographer and musician from Sweden.

She appeared in some promotional shots for the sportswear brand's latest Superstars campaign, but quickly found that she was receiving a negative backlash for her body hair - something no woman should have to suffer.

Does David Beckham get inundated with hate mail for his hairy legs when he models for Armani?

Doubtful.

Arvida posted a snap from the campaign on Instagram, explaining: "My photo from the @adidasoriginals superstar campaign got a lot of nasty comments last week.

"Me being such an abled, white, cis body with its only nonconforming feature being a lil leg hair. Literally I've been getting rape threats in my DM inbox.

"I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to not posses all these privileges and try to exist in the world.

"Sending love and try to remember that not everybody has the same experiences being a person
Also thanks for all the love, got a lot of that too."

More and more women are starting to ditch their razors and favour a more natural look.

Fitness blogger Morgan Mikenas, who has more than 7,000 followers on Instagram, recently revealed how she stopped shaving at the beginning of 2016.

The young woman had been the target of bullies thanks to her hairy legs when she was at school, and recalls running home to ask her mum how to shave.

But now, empowered, she's decided to go au naturale. Morgan said: "I guess my number one reason why I stopped was that it just took so much time.

"It took so much of my time to get in the shower and have to shave everything and then wash my hair and then wash my body it's just like another thing."

Good for all of these women who are doing what they want with their own bodies.