The family called the police and hired a lawyer, but they continued to hit dead ends as photos of Varona's provocative poses rapidly multiplied on the Internet. None of her pictures are any worse than you would see in Victoria Secret." "Then you look at it and say, 'It's a bathing suit picture,' I would rather have her not put it up, but it's a bathing suit picture. "At first you look at it and it's on a porn site and it's horrible," he said. Her father, Juan Varona, said that while he was "disappointed" in Angie, he was angry at the people who were spreading the photos. Varona immediately told her parents, who were "dumbfounded" when their daughter came to them crying. "It just progressed instead and exploded way too much." "We started emailing all the websites that had it already," she said. "No one ever thinks that, 'yeah, I'm going to take these pictures and it's going to end up all over the Internet.' You just do it for yourself."Īt the time, Varona said the photos were intended for her then-boyfriend's eyes only, but when someone hacked her private account, suddenly her private photos were everywhere online. "When you're 14 you don't realize that the things you do really do matter at that point," she told "Nightline" anchor Terry Moran in an exclsuive television interview. It was decision that she said has ruined her life. Varona was just 14 years old when she uploaded some provocative photos of herself wearing lingerie and bikinis - no nude pictures, she said - to the image-sharing website, in 2007. This summer, in an effort to spread awareness about the dangers of photo hacking, Varona decided to tell her story to the " Miami Montage," a publication put together by high school journalism students at a University of Miami, then decided to tell her story to "Nightline." "People wish to exploit me and I guess stalk me in a way.they want every picture that has ever been taken of me," she said. ![]() ![]() They Photoshopped the top off."įor four years Angie kept hoping the online obsession would stop, but it's only gotten worse. "They Photoshopped one of my bikini pictures," she said. ![]() Many of the photos out there now, Varona said, are not her originals, but are remakes or women pretending to be her. There are also numerous unauthorized Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and YouTube channels, all claiming to be Varona - one Facebook fan page has more than 41,000 likes.Ī recent Google search of "Angie Varona" turned up 608,000 original search items, including 63,000 photos tagged with her name. The 18-year-old said her likeness has shown up on porn sites, humor sites and 's now defunct "jailbait" section - where people traded and commented on photos of underage girls, even on advertisements. 9, 2011— - Angie Varona is one of the most recognized young sex symbols on the Internet, not because she is an aspiring model, or even asking for the attention, but because her private photo account was hacked four years ago.
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