“The amount of disgusting fat shaming comments, ironically by men with profile pictures standing with their wife and daughter, were over(w)helming.”
rowing instructor called out her critics in a powerful social media post over the weekend and it's resonating with a lot of her followers.
“This week I got to share with the world a project I have been working on for almost a year and the love was unmatched. I looked at FB hoping it would be the same as everywhere else. It was not,” she wrote. “The amount of disgusting fat shaming comments, ironically by men with profile pictures standing with their wife and daughter, were overhelming.”
"The middle school me would be mortified by those sizes but the healed 31 year old stands proudly in her truth," she wrote."I fought hard to make it this far in life. A story only few know. I worked hard to make waves in rowing the way I have." "I have played small a large portion of my life and when this opportunity came about I said I’m showing up unapologetically because why not me? Someone needs to see someone like me! So let me be the first!" she wrote.
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