Model licks toilet seat in ‘coronavirus challenge’ and sparks outrage. She doesn’t care.

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America, it looks like we may have another Bhad Bhabie on our hands, coronavirus edition.

In all seriousness, Instagram model Ava Louise took some heat this week because of a stunt she pulled on a flight to Miami on Friday.

The Rutgers University student is the social media enemy du jour after posting a video of her licking a toilet seat, as part of a “coronavirus challenge.”

In the clip, the New Jersey native, wearing sunglasses on her head, leans down, licks the seat generously as it if were ice cream, then gives the peace sign.

The “Skinny Legend Anthem” singer first gained fame after appearing on “The Dr Phil Show” twice telling her “not to hot” tale about how she used to be overweight and bullied but is now a “magical creature.”

“Please [repost] this so people can know how to properly be sanitary on the airplane,” read Louise’s caption.

The backlash was almost immediate. Even “The View’s” Meghan McCain blasted Louise and Tweeted that she should be put in jail.

But the 21 year old is “unbothered” as she wrote on Insta. Louise told the Miami Herald that people are “bugging” and that she was at no risk of catching COVID-19.

“I trolled America,” she said. “Like, it was a clean toilet seat. On a sugar daddy’s plane.”

Louise, who is in Miami for an indefinite amount of time on vacation, says she is feeling perfectly healthy.

“I feel hot, rich and iconic. If those are the symptoms of corona then b----, I’m ill!” (For the record, there is apparently no other “coronavirus challenge” floating around.)

Louise believes that the incident was blown out of proportion and wants to go on “The View” to chat with McCain personally.

“She should have me on,” said the aspiring singer. “It’ll be the best ratings they have ever had.”

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