--- title: Michael Bublé Criticized for Posting Photo of a Woman’s Butt on Instagram description: Many on social media interpreted the singer's action as body shaming canonical: https://time.com/3826749/michael-buble-photo-instagram/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-17T16:03:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:53.048Z og:title: Michael Bublé Criticized for Posting Photo of a Woman's Butt on Instagram og:description: Many on social media interpreted the singer's action as body shaming og:url: https://time.com/3826749/michael-buble-photo-instagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3a83a8ce1799881/6987eba9cd6848145509d947/457230544-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=396&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 396 og:image:height: 223 og:image:alt: Singer Michael Buble attends the 20th annual Fulfillment Fund Stars benefit gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Oct. 14, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Michael Bublé Criticized for Posting Photo of a Woman's Butt on Instagram twitter:description: Many on social media interpreted the singer's action as body shaming twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3a83a8ce1799881/6987eba9cd6848145509d947/457230544-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=396&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Michael Bublé Criticized for Posting Photo of a Woman's Butt on Instagram > Sponsored content. 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Tommaso Boddi—Getty Images by [Jacqueline Andriakos / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jacqueline Andriakos / People Contributor Apr 17, 2015 4:03 PM UTC Fans aren’t too happy with [Michael Bublé](http://www.people.com/people/news/category/0,,personsTax:MichaelBuble,00.html) after the singer posted a photo of a woman’s behind to his [Instagram](https://instagram.com/p/1bzcAAJSy0/?taken-by=michaelbuble). The “Haven’t Met You Yet” singer, 39, posted a shot of himself posing in front of an unidentified female wearing shorts, along with a caption singling out the woman’s butt Monday. “There was something about this photo lu took, that seemed worthy of Instagram,” Bublé wrote. It appears that his wife Luisana Lopilato, 27, took the photo while vacationing in Miami with the performer. He also followed the comment with several rear-end-related hashtags: #myhumps #babygotback #hungryshorts#onlyinmiami #picoftheday #beautifulbum. But not all social media users found the Canadian artist’s picture worthy of Instagram, taking to the photo-sharing platform and Twitter to criticize Bublé for his comments, which many interpreted as body shaming. > [](https://twitter.com/dadtrash/status/587770402979520512) > [](https://twitter.com/laurendorphin/status/587770798355644416) > [](https://twitter.com/samanthadjb/status/587773194242764800) > [](https://twitter.com/MaddySkye/status/587800989916250114) However, some commenters came to the singer’s defense, arguing that the post wasn’t mean-spirited. “So he’s admiring a nicely shaped butt. Big deal!” an Instagram user wrote. “I’m on team Michael and Lu on this one! How is this body/booty shaming? People need to relax!” another user said. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/michael-buble-criticized-photo-woman-butt-instagram) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3826749/michael-buble-photo-instagram/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3826749/michael-buble-photo-instagram/"},"headline":"Michael Bublé Criticized for Posting Photo of a Woman's Butt on Instagram","datePublished":"2015-04-17T16:03:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:53.048Z","description":"Many on social media interpreted the singer's action as body shaming","url":"https://time.com/3826749/michael-buble-photo-instagram/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3a83a8ce1799881/6987eba9cd6848145509d947/457230544-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jacqueline Andriakos / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3a83a8ce1799881/6987eba9cd6848145509d947/457230544-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Singer Michael Buble attends the 20th annual Fulfillment Fund Stars benefit gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Oct. 14, 2014.","caption":"Singer Michael Buble attends the 20th annual Fulfillment Fund Stars benefit gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Oct. 14, 2014.","creditText":"Tommaso Boddi—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3826749/michael-buble-photo-instagram/","name":"Michael Bublé Criticized for Posting Photo of a Woman's Butt on Instagram"}}]}] ```