Sailor Brinkley Cook is the latest celebrity progeny to battle Internet trolls.
Christie Brinkley’s daughter, now a model herself, took to her Instagram to post a long message with a screenshot of various comments criticizing her.
“The subject i have been meaning to touch on publicly for years- stop. comparing. me. to. my. mother,” the younger Brinkley wrote Wednesday night. “Believe it or not I am my own person with my own beliefs and own thoughts and my own face! Eyes smile teeth forehead! All mine! The whole shabang!”
Among the comments Brinkley Cook found objectionable are ones saying things like, “She’s a pretty girl but no where near what her mother was.”
The model, who sometimes works with her mother on shoots, also took offense to one commenter saying Parsons, where she goes to school, is “the ultimate NYC school for do-nothing trust fund babies.”
“Pushing down the school I worked my ass off for 4 years to get into, saying it’s for do-nothing trust fund babies, is not only stereotyping a scholastic community but is just plain incorrect and rude,” the person said. “I know many kids enrolled in Parsons who are the most hard working and passionate students in all of New York.”
Brinkley Cook is unwittingly following in the footsteps of other celebrity children like Zelda Williams, daughter of the late Robin Williams, and Harley Quinn Smith, Kevin Smith‘s daughter, who all had to deal with cyberbullying in the recent past.
“Ghostbusters” star Leslie Jones and Olympian Gabby Douglas also came under attack from vicious trolls recently.
“My one wish is that these people can get off their computers, go chase a sunset, kiss someone they love, pursue one of their dreams and STOP making an 18 year old girl feel constantly inferior and hurt,” the model concluded her post. “Lets just f—in spread love you guys. And pleaseeeee stop trolling me. Thank u.”