- Victoria Featherstone Pearce is a UK animal-rights activist and model.
- Her pictures were used by catfishers five years ago, and again more recently.
- This is Featherstone Pearce’s story, as told to Kelly Burch.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Victoria Featherstone Pearce. It has been edited for length and clarity.
After I had just gotten married five years ago, I was surprised when a friend messaged me the link to a Twitter profile I had never seen. The headline picture was of me on a trip to Italy, the one I got engaged during. The profile picture was me with a tiny rescue dog in my lap. But the name wasn’t mine, and the bio — “looking for a serious relationship” — certainly didn’t describe me.
