Beauty & Mode

Plussize-model laat geen spaan heel van lompe vliegtuigbuurman: “Vind je dat leuk? Dikke mensen uitlachen en belachelijk maken?”

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Omdat Natalie kookte van woede en de boodschap wil delen dat je mag zijn wie je bent, deelde Natalie haar verhaal op social media. “Dit is de realiteit voor iedereen die dik is. Niet alleen in het vliegtuig, maar ook in de bus, in de rij, bij een concert of op social media. Als je jezelf bent en niemand tot last bent, zijn er nog steeds mensen die je willen kwetsen. Alles wat je kunt doen is weten dat je niks fout hebt gedaan en verder gaan. Dit feit maakte me verdrietig en boos.”

Het plussize-model had nooit verwacht dat ze zoveel bijval zou krijgen van mensen van over de hele wereld. Binnen 48 uur kreeg ze honderden berichten van mensen die haar wilden steunen en haar bedankten voor haar woorden. 

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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