Zo nagelt plussize-model lompe vliegtuigbuurman aan de schandpaal

Trillend doet ze haar verhaal... Natalie Hage is razend en treurig, emotioneel en gekwetst. Voor een fotoshoot was het plussize-fotomodel onderweg naar Los Angeles. Haar buurman in het vliegtuig had echter moeite met haar omvang. En dat liet hij duidelijk merken ook. Zo kreunde en steunde de kerel luid en duidelijk. En hij maakte foto's van haar. Ook stuurde man kwetste berichtjes over haar.

Op Instagram lucht Natalie haar hart. Ze deelt onder andere dat de man tegenover een vrouw genaamd Linda via een berichtje vertelt te denken dat Natalie een hele Mexicaan verorbert heeft. En hij klaagt steen en been over het feit dat hij tegen het raampje geplakt zit, zonder enige bewegingsruimte. Natalie's foto's laten echter zien dat hij meer dan genoeg ruimte heeft.

"Vind je dat leuk? Dikke mensen uitlachen en belachelijk maken?", vraagt Hage aan de man, zo is te zien in een video die een viral hit is en ruim een miljoen keer bekeken is. Als halfslachtig excuus beweert de man teveel gedronken ten hebben, maar hij maakt de situatie nauwelijks beter door ook nog aan te geven dat ze beter niet bij de nooduitgang kan zitten, omdat die vrij moet blijven.

Gewoon omdat je er ook bent en mag zijn (en je niemand tot last bent) en omdat ze kookte van woede om de manier waarop de man erop uit was haar te kwetsen deelde Natalie haar verhaal. Ze kan rekenen op massale steun.

Natalie's hele verhaal: "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." https://www.instagram.com/p/BV7lNTZA5Pw/

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Natalie bedankt haar volgers voor alle steun: "i don't even know what to say. the past 48 hours have been an absolute whirlwind of support and trolling and hateful comments and heartfelt outpourings of love and kindness. hundreds upon hundreds of people have reached out and told me stories of times they've been hurt by others (traveling, just living life) and how that's affected them. i wish we didn't know what that hurt felt like, but please just know you're not alone. this conversation is really important. we HAVE to talk about how fatphobia seeps into so many parts of our lives. we HAVE to remember to stand up for ourselves and others who maybe can't do it for themselves. we all deserve a fair shot at happiness and a chance at feeling good about ourselves. don't let people take that from you or from others if you can help it. let's keep talking about this. keep telling your stories. keep lifting each other up. cool thing - i'll be on good morning america tomorrow around 8ish in the morning central time! i also did several other interviews today and will keep y'all in the know if you want. thank you again and thank you always. i felt about an inch tall when that man did that to me on the plane. but after standing up to him and feeling so much support from the world, i feel like i can do anything. ❤️❤️"

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