GMA Meteorologist: Call Me 'Ugly,' But Don't Call Me 'Weather Girl'

“Good Morning America” meteorologist Ginger Zee pictured with President Barack Obama in the Rose Garden last May. (Photo: Ginger Zee Facebook page)

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Michigan native and “Good Morning America” meteorologist Ginger Zee didn’t mind being called “ugly” on a Facebook post.

It was being called “a weather girl” that miffed Zee,MLive/The Grand Rapids Press reports.

The social media dustup started with post by a Facebook user who called Zee out for not smiling much and taunted that she’s the “most ugly weather girl … on tv,” The Vane, a weather blog on Gawker, reports.

Zee, who grew up in Rockford in western Michigan, didn’t skip a beat.

“Please get it right,” she responded. “(I’m) the ugliest METEOROLOGIST you’ve ever seen. Happy Friday!”

Later, she posted more, explaining that she “studied too hard” and “chased too many storms” to be dismissed as just another weather girl.

“Call me ugly all you want,” she posted, “but don’t disrespect me …”

Zee posted a screenshot of the exchange on her Facebook page and got more than 15,730 “likes” and more than 5,400 comments.

Her friends immediately jumped on the fact that user Brian Rice posts without a profile picture.

“Mr. Rice please post your profile picture so may you be judged, as you seem to have to personally attack an innocent person,” user Bob Trask posted, offering some online counseling:

You are a troubled individual who has no morals for other peoples feelings. My parents always taught me if I had nothing good to say don’t say anything at all. So here is my advice to you Shut Your Damn Mouth! Because you obviously have nothing good or worth saying.”

Other users were less diplomatic in their criticism and, in an apparent collective effort to lift Zee’s spirits, engaged in a veritable cyber lovefest in the thousands of comments that followed.