Ruby Tuesday Matthews lashes out after being slammed over AI photo with Albo in a dress and complaining about tax rate for small businesses: 'Didn't you just have a facelift?'

Ruby Tuesday Matthews has hit back after she was criticised for affording a facelift while also complaining that her company is struggling. 

The influencer, who runs the ROBEY fashion label, blamed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the government's tax hikes for the difficulties she has faced as a small business owner. 

Taking a cheeky stab at the PM this week, the 33-year-old shared an AI photo in which she posed with Albanese in a photoshoot for her brand's latest drop. 

'Considering the government takes up to 47 per cent of what we earn, I figured the Prime Minister basically owns half of ROBEY,' Ruby wrote on Instagram. 

'So I invited him to do a little unpaid modelling because we've lost our campaign budgets,' she continued. 

'He's contributed absolutely nothing to the creative process, never packed an order, designed the collection but somehow still gets a cut. Very generous arrangement.'

Ruby urged her fans to 'shop small before extinction' and explained that she had spent her entire budget on stocking the fashion brand.  

The complaints didn't sit well with all of her followers, with one person in the comments section accusing Ruby of exaggerating her hardships and pointing out that she had recently undergone a pricey cosmetic surgery. 

'You'd probably find you had more disposable income if you didn't just have a facelift, drive a vehicle worth more than a house deposit and seem to be in a lay-flat bed each time you travel internationally. Just a thought,' one person wrote. 

Another agreed: 'Legit this! Like maybe don't live the high life if you can't afford it.'

A further comment read: 'If being a small business owner is such a financial burden on her, she could always go and get a traditional job. But that probably wouldn't suit her. For someone who has such a problem with the way small businesses are taxed, it doesn't seem to stop her from opening small businesses. 

'There are people who cannot put food on the table because of the cost of living at the moment. That is not because of Anthony Albanese's tax plan.'

 The social media star was angered by the comments and was quick to lash out.

'You don't know s**t about me, you idiot,' Ruby ranted. 

'My car is under a business and I pay weekly instalments. My facelift was on the back end of a sourcing trip and cost less than what I pay in Botox in a year and my job is to show my face. So suck my d**k.

'Please don't lecture me about traditional jobs. I've worked since I was 13. I've worked in a sweatshop sewing swimwear, managed stores for Mimco, worked at Tree of Life, been a PA to a fashion designer and held multiple roles across the fashion industry. I know exactly what it means to work for someone else,' she went on. 

'I started with absolutely nothing, as a young single mother with two children, and built everything I have myself. And perhaps consider that a traditional wage barely allows many Australians to buy a home, let alone support a family member through dementia, cancer treatment or even afford to bury someone they love.

'I employ people, support other businesses, pay an extraordinary amount in tax and work seven days a week. The fact that I've managed to build businesses doesn't mean I lose the right to question how small businesses are taxed.

'You have absolutely no f***ing idea what I've worked through, what I financially support or what it costs to keep everything running. So please, spare me the career advice. I've done the traditional job. I chose to build something bigger.'

She then continued in a further post: 'Australian tall poppy syndrome is alive and well. You see a house and a car and assume privilege. 

'What you don't see is a mortgage bigger than most people could stomach, three businesses I've built myself, or the fact I've spent my entire Saturday working.

'At 23. I was a single mother with two children and not a dollar to my name. Nothing was handed to me. Not the house, not the businesses, not the life I have now.' 

She continued: 'My car is financed through my business because I travel constantly for work. I've never even owned a credit card.

'You know absolutely nothing about my finances, my upbringing or what it took to get here. But apparently a few Instagram stories qualify you to audit my entire existence.

'Some of you are so desperate to see a woman doing well as privileged that you would rather invent her backstory than acknowledge she might have worked her f***ing ass off. Embarrassing.'

The Byron Bay influencer recently revealed she is considering leaving Australia for good due to high operating costs for her small businesses, which include fashion label ROBEY and diamond jewellery brand Toujours.

The mother-of-three made the announcement during an Instagram Q&A, revealing that she and her partner Shannan Dodd are looking at moving to Hong Kong.

'I'm going to say 90 percent sure we're going,' Ruby said.

Shannan, who was sitting next to her, added: 'I think that we should definitely [move]... because our business will thrive a lot more overseas.'

Ruby then turned her attention to Australia's tax system, complaining that despite working harder than ever, the couple felt they were handing over much of their earnings to the government.

'Well, realistically, we give all of our money to the bloody government and we work harder than we've ever worked in our life,' she said.