Another day, another drama for Ashy Bines.
Fitness vlogger Bines’ entire business centres around inspiring people to get as fit and active as she is, which is why the thought of Ashy using a disabled carspot has baffled the internet.
As reported by Pedestrian.tv, Bines copped a tirade of criticism after posting a video to YouTube showing her pulling up in a disabled parking spot out the front of her Gold Coast gym.
Bines’ white Range Rover parked in a disabled carspot in front of her gym.
“When no one’s used that car park for three years and we have no members with any disabilities, then I do use that car park sometimes,” she later took to Snapchat to, err, clarify.
“They are there 24/7 … yeah, sometimes I do use it. I know that it does look bad in some way but I hope you guys can hear my side of the story.”
“Sometimes I do use it and I do apologise if I have offended anyone, but I wanted my loyal followers to see my side. There’s always that 5 per cent to comment, judge criticise and jump down my throat at everything.”
And while we certainly don’t condone the OTT social-media smackdown Ashy got hit with (including completely unnecessary threats made to both herself and her young son), parking in a disabled spot when you are, in fact, not disabled, or escorting someone who is disabled, is just plain wrong.
Despite her claims that no-one who visits her female-only gym, where the Ashy Bines Transformation Centre is based, in the Gold Coast’s Pacific Square shopping centre, a number of businesses share the same carpark as Bines and her gym members.
This includes a post office, ALDI, an optometrist, a dentist and a medical centre – all places where someone disabled may need to visit.
This isn’t the first time Bines has had to sidestep a scandal.
As previously reported by The Weekly, a young PT and homecook, Alexandria Dodds, came out swinging against Bines, slinging accusations of plagerism the fitness star’s way.
Dodds claims that after posting her favourite recipes to her own blog, a few months later, she saw them appear in an e-book published by Bines.
“I couldn’t believe a woman that claims to be empowering other women could do something like this,” Dodds told The Weekly.
“I’m all for making an honest name for yourself and young women succeeding in business, I’m just not sure that Ashy understands the impact it has.”
Not only that, but Bines later took to YouTube to confess her seemingly inadvertent plagiarism, stating that she may have been “… too naïve to think I wouldn’t have to check the origins of each recipe”.
