diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index 62dcd0b7..4eb52d94 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -855,6 +855,9 @@ class Response(object):
         # Fallback to auto-detected encoding.
         if self.encoding is None:
             encoding = self.apparent_encoding
+        # Forcefully remove BOM from UTF-8
+        elif self.encoding.lower() == 'utf-8':
+            encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
 
         # Decode unicode from given encoding.
         try: