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Rihanna slams 'sloppy menopausal' journalist for defamatory headline

Bajan beauty Rihanna has taken to her social networking pages today to defend her reputation after a journalist for Britain's Daily Mail newspaper labelled her a "toxic role model" and described her as "pop's poisonous princess" in an article.

Writer Liz Ann Jones (pictured left) recently wrote an editorial for the newspaper, in which she slammed the 'Where Have You Been' superstar's supposed promotion of guns and violence, and glorification of drug use. Upon reading the piece, Rihanna posted an image of the journalist to her Instagram account and accompanied it with the following statement:

"If you sincerely wanna help little girls more than their own parents do, here's a toxic tip: don't be amateur with your articles, you sound bitter! What's all this about hair and nails and costumes and tattoos?? ....That s**t ain't clever!!! That s**t ain't journalism! That's a sad sloppy menopausal mess!!!"

"Nobody over here acts like they're perfect! I don't pretend that I'm like you, i just live... My life!! And I don't know why y'all still act so surprised by any of it!! "Role Model" is not a position or title that I have ever campaigned for, so chill wit dat! I got my own f**ked up s**t to work on, I'll never portray that as perfect, but for right now it's ME!! Call it what ya want!! Toxic was cute, Poisonous Pop Princess had a nice ring to it, just a lil wordy! And P.S. my first American Vogue cover was in 2011...APRIL!!! #ElizabethAnnJones."

 

 

 

 

 

Watch footage of Rihanna's recent performance at Radio 1's Big Weekend here: