You can rock bikinis elsewhere but never on the beaches of a mostly Muslim island. One Australian influencer named Mikaela Testa and her boyfriend Atis Paul landed Cocos Island for a vacation but she was told to cover up her body and put on something decent.
She complied as she was later seen in photos covered up via the New York Post:
Mikaela Testa, 22, is adored for her hourglass figure that she shows off to her 1.6 million TikTok and 136,000 Instagram followers, posing in micro bikinis.
And while they may be big fans of her cheeky outfits, the locals on Cocos Island were not.
“So I landed in Cocos yesterday and the lady who owns the Airbnb that we’re staying in received some calls from some locals saying I should be wearing something more culturally appropriate because this island is predominantly Muslim,” the TikTok vlogger shared.
“So today I am covering up to show some respect, and I respect their wishes 100 percent.”
Testa and her fellow TikTok star and boyfriend Atis Paul are currently vacationing on Cocos Island is an Australian territory midway between Australia and Sri Lanka. The small island was recorded as being 75% Muslim, according to the 2016 census.
As Testa explains the situation to her viewers in her daily vlog, she is seen wearing a brown scarf covering her head and shoulders and a skin-tight maxi-dress.
In Muslim culture, it is often custom for women to be required or choose to cover everything but their hands, face and feet in public.
You do what the Romans do when you got to Rome so Mikaela Testa had to go by how women on the island dress as she covered up her body in new photos.
You have to follow their rules, but it makes you wonder if she was ugly if this would have been an issue.
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