Louisiana photographer Rachel Taylor decided to go shopping at Old Navy. Because of the warm Southern weather, she went looking for a tank top. While perusing the plus-size section, she couldn't help but hear a teenager girl and her mother laughing.
“A teenage girl picked up a tank top off a rack and held it up against her and said, ‘Look mom, me and so-and-so could both fit in this tank top,’” Taylor told ABC News. “They laughed. She set the shirt down and I started crying.”
The two women were making fun of the very fact that some women wear clothes in a bigger size than others. Even the mother joined in, saying the tank top was "huge." What was the point other than to humiliate the customers who enjoyed shopping in that section?
Taylor ran to her car and continued to cry. It was then that her husband offered words of encouragement.
“It makes me angry,” her husband said. “I wish people could understand how it makes other people feel when they say things like that.”
Taylor marched right back into the store. She picked up the tank top the teen had mocked, went into the dressing room and put it on. There, she took a selfie wearing it and afterward, she bought it.
“Be kind. Think about others before you speak,” Taylor wrote on Facebook. “I ended up buying the tank top because, it turns out, I look fierce in it.”
Her post went so viral that even Old Navy responded, saying, “Rachel, you are amazing."
Taylor simply wants others to be a little more mindful of what they say and for anyone who has been hurt by rude comments to know it's OK.
“Words still hurt,” she said. “That doesn’t mean that you’re weak. It doesn’t mean that you’re a crybaby. It means that you’re human."
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