I'm gonna step heavily onto my soap box here, however this isn't necessarily aimed at HG.
One thing these "influencers" (God, how I despise that word) need to understand, and remember is that this is their job. They tell us repeatedly, showing us things they've received for free that us lowly and needing to be influenced plebs MUST HAVE otherwise we are not as good as them, or cannot be like them.
I don't have much of an online presence. I don't post pictures of myself to a wide public audience. I don't understand the need, nor overly care for it. Therefore, because of this, I am not judged for what I say or post online. Anything I might post on a rare occasion, is catered for my "public" who are my close friends and family and are mostly pictures of my dumb dog. However, this is where influencers get it wrong by blurring the lines between their personal lives and their public/work lives. You know that stuff that our employers like to shove down out throats? Not posting publicly about things that might bring negative publicity to the firm/office/employer etc?
If they are so insistent on posting PRIVATE images of their children, partners, houses, animals, personal medical history, I could go on forever.... then they must understand, that they are posting this information into the public domain (usually hash tagged to ensure the widest public scope!) and therefore are open to commentary and criticism.
Comments, such as the work that HG used were not posted on a private messenger site, where I could POSSIBLY understand upset if those had been brought into the public domain, (although privacy doesn't really, truly exist in today's society) but the word was used on her work blog. That's the equivalent of me posting on my corporate firm's front page. I just don't understand how people cannot correlate the issue?
So much personal information is posted online. Boarding passes showing private information, addresses not clearly obscured, Garmin running routes posted regularly, starting and finishing at the same point, views from outside their houses. These influencers show us their entire worlds and then scream foul when they are pulled uo on something.
TLDR: If you don't want people to comment on your life, stop posting your life online! (...and making money from it)