Megan Naramore Harris brought her teenage daughter to the mall to hunt for the perfect dress for the school formal. Megan noticed a beautiful red gown at Dillard's and asked her daughter if she wanted to try it on. Her daughter thought it made her look a bit old, but she let Mom snap a photo of her in it anyway. The young woman looked stunning, but that didn't seem to be enough for a saleswoman working the floor.
What the Dillard's employee insinuated about the teenage girl's body was incredibly rude and out of place. No one had asked, certainly not the mother who was in awe of her little girl's beauty. Certainly not the young woman who just wanted to look nice for a school dance. Yet, the saleswoman persisted. After the incident, Megan decided to share her story, and it's since gone viral. Over 50,000 folks have shared this story to take a stance against bullying and body-shaming young women who need their self-esteem built up, not torn down.
"Dear sales lady at Dillard's Towne East Mall, This is my teenage daughter who wanted to try on dresses for an upcoming formal. I found this dress and asked her to try it on. She told me this was not her style, but tried it on for me."
"I told her how grown up it made her look and she smiled, and told me this made her look too old but still, she let me take a picture. Right after that, you entered and told my daughter she needed to wear SPANX if she wanted to wear this dress. I told my daughter to go change. I told you that she was just fine without SPANX. You continued to argue with me. We left soon after. I wish I had told you how many girls suffer from poor self-image and telling them they need something to make them perfect can be very damaging. Girls of all ages, shapes and sizes are perfect because that is how God made them."
"If they feel good in a dress, that is all that should matter. My daughter is tall, she swims, runs, dances and does yoga. She's fit. She's beautiful. She did not need you telling her that she is not perfect. I hope this is shared and gets back to you so that you should not say something like that to a girl ever again. You never know what negative or positive thoughts they are thinking about themselves.
Sincerely, Mother of a beautiful girl"
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