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London, Mar 9 (ANI): Social networking site Facebook has blocked a breast cancer survivor after she published a photo of her reconstructed breasts following her operation.

Melissa Tullett, from Rochester, Kent, had put the picture on the website after she had a double mastectomy, with the intention of offering encouragement to fellow breast cancer sufferers.

But Facebook blocked her page and removed the image because it said it broke its rules on nudity.

“It was to show other women that after such an ordeal you can come out of it with your dignity and your womanhood again, and that it’s not all frightening,” the BBC quoted Tullett as saying.

She said she had not realised that she had done anything wrong and only wanted people to feel positive about it.

“They just told me that I’d uploaded a photo that violated their terms of use and that they were deleting the photo. But they didn’t actually tell me they were disabling my account,” she said.

Tullett’s page has since been reactivated, but she has been told not to repost the picture.

“It was showing my actual tattoos, because my nipples have had to be tattooed on,” she added.

Facebook said its guidelines respected the views of a wide range of people and were designed to ensure the site remained a safe, secure and trusted environment for everyone, including children over the age of 13.

It said the image was removed because it contained nudity - not because of the nature of the nudity in question. (ANI)