Russian plus size model suffers major embarrassment after her skirt is ripped from her body, leaving her underwear exposed at Cannes Festival (Photos/Video)

Russian plus size model, Yulia Rybakova, suffered major embarrassment after her skirt was ripped from her body, leaving her underwear exposed as she hit the red carpet at Cannes Film Festival.

In the video below, Yulia is seen parading in front of the paparazzi when a passerby accidentally stepped on the hem of her long red skirt which then ripped from her body, leaving her in just her top and underwear.

The model who looked shocked while she was left standing in her underwear immediately got helping hands from a stranger who rushed to put the long skirt back on her body.

Meanwhile, many believe the incident was staged with some saying it was nothing more than attention-seeking stunt for the model to make headlines.

According to one Instagram user who stormed her page, she wrote: 'Feel like this was on purpose, first of all the fabric is wayy too thin and it wasn’t sawed on, second of all how did the man know how to put it back on? Nah this is clearly planned out to cause controversy.