Girl, 19, gets body-shamed at church: 'Fat girls don't wear shorts'

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Girl, 19, gets body-shamed at church: 'Fat girls don't wear shorts'
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A 19-year-old girl tweeted about getting body-shamed at church, attracting the attention of body-positive activist Jameela Jamil.

A 19-year-old girl from Swansboro, N.C. was fat-shamed at church on Sunday, when a congregation leader followed her to the bathroom and told her, “Fat girls don’t wear shorts.”

This women followed me into the bathroom and attacked me calling me fat and that I couldn’t wear jean shorts because I was too fat pic.twitter.com/xse8lKfQdo According to Jenna’s thread, the pastor told her that Sue won’t be working in any sort of committee or in any leadership role at the church ever again. In an email to Yahoo Lifestyle, Baker also noted that Sue and is a church member and not an employee.

— Jameela Jamil 🌈 July 2, 2019 This breaks my heart. Her behavior is so cruel and ugly. Keep singing and keep shining. She is clearly not an authority on any kind of loving God.

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