Declan Rice is targeted with vile chants about his girlfriend by Chelsea fans during Arsenal clash - hours after she deleted her Instagram posts following abuse from body-shaming trolls

Declan Rice was targeted by Chelsea fans during Arsenal's win over the Blues as his girlfriend faced more abuse.

Rice's long-term partner, Lauren Fryer has deleted all of her Instagram pictures after receiving a barrage of abuse online over her appearance.

Lauren, 25, who is the childhood sweetheart of Arsenal's Rice, also 25, wiped all posts from her Instagram page in recent days after finding herself the target of cruel online trolls.

The trolling made its way into the real world on Tuesday, however, with footage shared to X-formerly Twitter, showing Rice to be the target of vile chants from Chelsea fans. 

Footage from the away end at the Emirates on Tuesday showed a group of supporters appearing to chant 'Declan Rice, your bird's a fat ****'.

Rice appeared to be getting ready to take a corner in front of the away end of the club he played for as a youth between 2006 and 2013.

The England star ignored the chants, which repeated the slur three times.

Fryer has been taunted for her appearance, with the bullying first starting in December last year when an anonymous account told midfielder Rice he 'could do better'.

Recently, Rice was told he had 'low standards' for being in a relationship with Fryer, who is the mother to their 20-month-old son, Jude.

Fryer has since been vigorously defended by Rice fans over the comments. Taking to X on Wednesday, one outraged fan wrote:  'I honestly worry about the mindset of some people. This is Lauren Fryer the girlfriend of Declan Rice who has suffered so much on line abuse recently.'

Another posted: 'A beautiful woman, a couple in love, with a young family. Some within this world need to get a grip', while a third shared: 'Appreciation post for this beautiful woman Lauren Fryer. We're sorry to see that in 2024 women are still subject to so many disgusting comments.'

Love Island star Liberty Poole, meanwhile, who appeared on the seventh series in 2022 and Love Island All Stars earlier this year, wrote on her Instagram Stories: 'I think she's beautiful this is crazy.

'What happened to celebrating different body types and embracing how we are all individually made.

'Beauty standards these days are unrealistic and everyone's gone mad because of social media.

'I'm going to keep preaching about it till I die. Time for change, this can't continue.'

The couple have been together since 2016, meeting at school and have a son together, 20-month-old Jude.

They live in London together, having met when they were 17.

Fryer now has nearly 80,000 followers on her public Instagram account, though no longer has any photos on the account.

She can regularly be seen in the stands supporting Rice when he plays for both Arsenal and England.