Bachelor star Heather Maltman reveals she is Aboriginal

Former Bachelor star Heather Maltman revealed her Indigenous heritage on Wednesday in a lengthy Instagram post about the Black Lives Matter protesters.

The 35-year-old actress and director, who has light skin and has not previously disclosed her racial background, proudly wore an Aboriginal flag singlet as she marked Mabo Day and threw her support behind anti-racism demonstrators.

In her emotional post, Heather admitted she had always been ‘silent’ about her ancestry because the pain of the past ‘f**king hurts’.

‘For all my mob up here in Queensland. Mabo Day! Love you,’ Heather began.  

‘For years I have been silent about my heritage. And after the awful situations going on, all I’ve learned is we can do more.’

Heather described Australia as an unequal society and claimed she had recently quit her job because of a racist male supervisor.

She claimed the man had told her to ‘stop whingeing and running [sic] Australia Day with my “political c**p”‘.

Heather added: ‘My skin [might] look white. But my family has a black history that was white washed like a f**king bad dream.

‘And I don’t talk about it cause it f**king hurts. To all my sisters and brothers watching their bags still get over turned at the train station just for not having the right skin colour. Know this: I’m with you. Always. And so are many others.

‘It’s our job to say something when we can.’ 

As defined by Reconciliation Australia, Mabo Day ‘is marked annually on June 3, commemorating Mer Island man Eddie Koiki Mabo and his successful efforts to overturn the legal fiction of terra nullius or “land belonging to no-one”‘.

Heather’s post comes amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests that began in America last week and have since spread worldwide.

The demonstrations erupted in response to the death in custody of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who was forcefully restrained for eight minutes by a white cop.

Floyd, 46, died last Monday after he was arrested by four Minneapolis police officers for allegedly using a fake $20 bill.

He was brought to the ground and white police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes.

Floyd, who was handcuffed, repeatedly said he couldn’t breathe and later died in custody. 

The horrific assault was caught on video and sent shockwaves across the world.

Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder, and the three other officers on the the scene have been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder.