Strangers used to tell me I was beautiful – now I’m called embarrassing

These comments were in stark contrast to the messaging I’d received my whole life (Picture: Willem Botha)Last November, I was bullied on social media for the first time. That it happened aged 65, is notable, I suppose. However it wasn’t so much the quantity of nasty comments I got (and there were a few, believe me) that surprised me, rather it was the content. ‘Stop trying to be young.’ ‘She’s lost all her natural beauty’ and ‘You are an