The former supermodel took to the platform on August 1 to share a close-up selfie taken first thing in the morning, accompanied by a lengthy caption, Fox News reports.

“One reason I’ve been posting a lot of self generated content lately is because I’m terrified. Of what, you may wonder? Of getting sued. Again,” she wrote.

In 2022, the former 80s supermodel took to Instagram to share a photographer’s photos of the war in Ukraine with her 1.1 million followers, she explained.

“Here’s the deal. Last year, while posting about the horrors in Ukraine, I used photos I found on IG (Instagram) to illustrate the story. Six months later, I was slapped with a lawsuit by a law firm on the behalf of one photographer. I had used his photo without his approval or without paying for usage,” she said.

“Until that point, I didn’t even realise this was a thing – reposting photos from the internet being illegal. My images are used all the time, and unless someone is trying to sell something with the images, I thought this was fine. It turns out it’s not.”

Porizkova noted there are “law firms that do nothing but scour social media for dummies like myself who have enough followers to pay up”.

She shared that the parties “settled out of court” because her “best intentions notwithstanding, they were right”.

“I did use an unauthorised photo – even if it was carrying on the message I thought the photographer was trying to make – that war is evil. And boy, did that turn out to be an expensive mistake!” she admitted.

The 58-year-old warned her followers they “may want to unfollow” her since she plans to be sticking to pictures of herself going forward.

“For those of you who don’t mind – thank you for taking this journey called life with me. I’m so very grateful for you!” she concluded.

“Yes, this is what I look like in the morning.”

Porizkova’s post sparked commentary from other professional photographers.

“That’s ridiculous. I’m a photographer and … I would never stoop to suing someone for using [a photo] without my permission,” one commented.

However, another agreed with the lawsuit, writing, “If we talking about photographs of Ukraine in wartime, then that would be a photojournalist who is risking their life to go take those pictures.”

“Photographers do not and should not work for free,” they continued. “Years of expertise and knowledge go in to every image.”

Since Porizkova’s post at the beginning of the month, she has shared a few new selfies – but nothing professionally shot.

This article originally appeared on Fox News and was reproduced with permission