--- title: The Veronicas Body-Shamed Due to Vegan Diet description: The Veronicas are clapping back at critics who believe the singers promote eating disorders. What they want you to know about being vegan. canonical: https://time.com/4373630/the-veronicas-body-shaming-trolls/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-17T20:35:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:45.137Z og:title: The Veronicas Are Sick of Getting Attacked for Being Vegan og:description: Enough with the body-shaming, say the twins og:url: https://time.com/4373630/the-veronicas-body-shaming-trolls/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddfee37551748e40/69889863cd1bba1432701270/the-veronicas-body-shaming-trolls-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 29th Annual ARIA Awards 2015 - Winner & Presenters Portraits og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Veronicas Are Sick of Getting Attacked for Being Vegan twitter:description: Enough with the body-shaming, say the twins twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddfee37551748e40/69889863cd1bba1432701270/the-veronicas-body-shaming-trolls-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Veronicas Are Sick of Getting Attacked for Being Vegan by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 17, 2016 8:35 PM UTC  SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 26: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Lisa and Jessica Origliasso from the Veronicas pose for a portrait with an ARIA for Best Video during the 29th Annual ARIA Awards 2015 at The Star on November 26, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Nolan/WireImage) SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 26: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Lisa and Jessica Origliasso from the Veronicas pose for a portrait with an ARIA for Best Video during the 29th Annual ARIA Awards 2015 at The Star on November 26, 2015 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Mark Nolan/WireImage)Mark Nolan—WireImage/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 17, 2016 8:35 PM UTC _The Veronicas_, an Australian pop group, are clapping back at critics who believe the group promotes eating disorders. The band, made up of twin sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso, say it regularly fields Facebook and Twitter users who make comments about their bodies and eating habits, according to an interview with [News Corp Australia](http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/the-veronicas-attack-bodyshamers-who-claim-they-are-so-thin-they-are-promoting-anorexia-to-teens/news-story/fb7aeb3358c903f139cbded69e4e0959). People frequently suggest that the vegan twins are too thin, asking them to eat something or “order room service.” Jessica Orgliasso explains why these [body-shaming remarks](http://motto.time.com/4348095/amy-schumer-body-shaming-trolls/) are so exhausting: “It’s constant. It’s usually people who aren’t invested in us as artists, they don’t know what’s going on in any capacity. They have these big opinions and it’s very frustrating. None of it makes sense.” [_Follow Motto on Facebook_](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/)_._ The sisters laid out their eating habits in the interview. “It infuriates me, health is something that I’m really passionate about, probably because we’ve been given such a hard time about it for a long time — for our entire career,” Origliasso said. “The food pyramid we adhere to has a lot of good fats, we eat a lot of olive oil, avocado, hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds, really good oil, massive amounts of healthy carbs.” One Facebook commentator even offered buying their [groceries](http://motto.time.com/4339244/8-budget-friendly-grocery-shopping-tips-for-when-youre-on-a-diet/), a humble gesture in his eyes. The Veronicas happily replied with their grocery list for one day, with food items including “10 organic red potatoes” and “Organic vegan chocolate protein powder.” > [](https://twitter.com/Jessicaveronica/status/743313518821146628) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4373630/the-veronicas-body-shaming-trolls/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4373630/the-veronicas-body-shaming-trolls/"},"headline":"The Veronicas Are Sick of Getting Attacked for Being Vegan","datePublished":"2016-06-17T20:35:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:45.137Z","description":"Enough with the body-shaming, say the twins","url":"https://time.com/4373630/the-veronicas-body-shaming-trolls/","keywords":["motto","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddfee37551748e40/69889863cd1bba1432701270/the-veronicas-body-shaming-trolls-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddfee37551748e40/69889863cd1bba1432701270/the-veronicas-body-shaming-trolls-facebook.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"29th Annual ARIA Awards 2015 - Winner & Presenters Portraits","caption":"29th Annual ARIA Awards 2015 - Winner & Presenters Portraits","creditText":"Mark Nolan—WireImage/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/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4373630/the-veronicas-body-shaming-trolls/","name":"The Veronicas Are Sick of Getting Attacked for Being Vegan"}}]}] ```