Plus-size model calls man out after body shaming her
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Plus-size model calls man out after body shaming her

Updated | By Damon Beard

Some people are just insensitive and rude!

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Are you that person that's overweight and when you're on a flight and sit down next to another passenger, they puff and pant and make you feel like you really shouldn't be in that seat?

Maybe you're that person who makes that overweight person feel bad?

Yes, it may not be the most comfortable thing ever being next to someone who encroaches on your space, but there's no need to be nasty, right?

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Natalie, a plus-size model, was on a flight recently when she started being slated by the guy next to her.

He clearly wasn't happy that she was sitting next to him, so he decided to text one of his friends. When Natalie saw what he was saying about her, she took the situation by the horns. 

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Instead of just leaving it there, she turned to Instagram and mentioned what her fellow passenger was doing and saying about her.

#Awkward

i'm shaking right now. i'm on a flight to LA right now on @americanair. i paid almost $70 extra for this seat i'm in because i know i need a little extra leg room. i'm extremely flight anxious but there were only middle seats available so i had to take what i could get. as soon as i sat down, the gentleman on my left began LOUDLY huffing, sighing, and readjusting himself in his seat. i see him furiously texting and then purposefully turning the phone away from me. so, naturally next time he texts, i take a look. the texts were about me and i'm almost positive he took photos of me. not only were the texts about me, but they were really mean and ugly, with even the recipient named 'linda' chiming back with shaming retorts...someone who can't even see the situation. if you can't read the texts, it says 'hopefully she didn't have any mexican food' and his response is 'i think she ate a mexican'. then he proceeds to say he's leaving a 'neck mark on the window' because he's so smashed against the wall. from the photos, you can see i'm not in his space. he's even taken over both arm rests on purpose, coming to my space and digging his elbows into my side...which is in my seat. his next text to her was 'if the news reports a DFW airbus a321 leaving the runway without rotating, that would be my flight.' another i see later? 'if these seats don't hold, it's not going to matter.' and that's just a few of them. there were several more. i didn't do anything to him. i'm in my seat, completely (see photos). i am crumpled into a ball trying to not bother. i'm just so upset. i asked the other man to my right if he'd switch me and told him what the man was saying about me and he said laughed and refused. that's fine, it's not his issue. this is a fat person's daily reality and not just on a plane. this is on a bus, standing in line at the grocery store, at a concert, on the internet. you can be completely in your own space, not bothering anyone, and people will still fuck with you and try to hurt you. all you can do is know you haven't done anything wrong just by existing and to move on. this just makes me a mixture of enraged and super sad.

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