A Crystal Palace woman who burst into tears after a man she met on Tinder told her she was too fat to fancy has delivered the perfect comeback online.

Michelle Thomas, 30, was told by her date that while he was hugely turned on by her mind, face and personality, he could not say the same about her figure.

The pair went out for what Ms Thomas described as a “pleasant evening” of drinks and dinner last Monday (June 29) near London’s South Bank.

But she was left in tears when she was on a date the next evening after she received a message from the man, who has a 13-year-old daughter, saying she was too fat to turn him on in bed.

He wrote: “I'm not going to bull***t you... I f***ing adore you Michelle and I think you're the prettiest looking girl I've ever met.

“But my mind gets turned on by someone slimmer.

“Shallow? It's not meant to be.

“It's the same reaction you get when you read a great author or see an amazing image, or listen to a piece of music you love, it has that instant reaction in you that makes you crave more.

“So whilst I am hugely turned on by your mind, your face, your personality (and God...I really, really am), I can't say the same about your figure.

“So I can sit there and flirt and have the most incredibly fun evening, but I have this awful feeling that when we got undressed my body would let me down.

“I don't want that to happen baby. I don't want to be lying there next to you, and you asking me why I'm not hard.”

In an open letter on her blog, which has had more than 12,000 views in 48 hours, Ms Thomas publicly responded to her Tinder date as an example of how not to treat women.

She wrote: “Your tone is saccharine and condescending, but the forensic detail in which you express your disgust at my body is truly grotesque.

“The only possible objective for writing it is to wound me.

“And I'm ashamed to say, for a few moments, it worked.

“You stirred a dormant fear that every woman who was ever a teenage girl has – that it doesn't matter how funny you are, how clever, how kind, how passionate, how loyal, how determined or adventurous or vibrant – if you're a stone overweight, no one will ever find you desirable.”

Ms Thomas said she chose to respond publicly to encourage the man to give his daughter the confidence to “love, enjoy and care for her body”.

The blog post has been widely shared and applauded on social media.

Posting on her Twitter page (@onepoundstories) earlier today, Ms Thomas said: “12,000 views in 48 hours. Overwhelmed. So much grief, shame, outrage and fear over our bodies. We need to talk.”