This 19-year-old blogger was body-shamed by a Walmart employee for trying on clothes

Shiann Frensen was told not to stretch the clothes she wanted to try on. (Picture: Instagram/shicurves)

If 2015 was the year of body-shaming, let’s make 2016 the year we put a stop to it.
Because when women are being shamed for just for daring to try on clothes, the world has really become a strange and horribly unkind place.
Shiann Friesen – the vlogger behind ShiCurves – was doing some shopping in U.S. shop Walmart when she was subject to some truly appalling treatment from one of the store’s employees.
Shiann had picked up a bunch of clothes to try on. On her way to the changing room, the unnamed employee took the clothes out of Shiann’s hands and told her not to ‘push it’.
When asked to clarify what she meant, that same employee said: ‘Just don’t try to put on something that’s obviously not going to fit [..] Just don’t stretch it. That’s all I’m asking.’
Smart vlogger that she is, Shiann quickly turned on her camera and filmed the exchange. She turned off the camera once the employee noticed it, but managed to capture the major body-shaming moment.

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In the full video posted to her YouTube channel, Shiann claims she told the employee that her behaviour was discriminatory, and that the employee attempted to defend herself by saying she was ‘just trying to protect our clothes.’
Shiann says she has since reached out to Walmart and that they’ve been very apologetic, but there’s no news yet on what action will be taken against the employee.
She says: ‘I don’t want this to turn into a giant spiel, but I just want you guys to know nobody has the right to discriminate against you and if that happens you need to be vocal about it and stand up for yourself.