By RIEL MAJOR

INSTAGRAM model Michelle Lewin encountered a not-so-pleasant surprise on a Bahamian beach when a pig took a bite of her rear end while she was posing for a short video. In the video posted to her Instagram page, the 32-year-old Venezuelan is seen holding a camera and wearing a white two-piece swimsuit on a beach as she frolicked on an island with pigs running after her.

The Instagram model turned her body with her back facing a group of pigs, resulting in one of the pigs sneaking up and biting the model’s buttocks causing her to scream and run away. The pigs followed her but fortunately quickly lost interest. The video did reveal a red bruise on the model’s rear end. The experience was captured and shared with her 13.3 million followers on Instagram. The post went viral and received over four million views and over 650,000 likes up to press time.

The Bahamas has several “swimming pigs” attractions, with the most famous being on a cay in Exuma. It is not clear which island Ms Lewin is on in the video.