“I Don’t Get These Dudes”: Plus-Size Model’s Viral Bikini Photos Spark Conversation On Fatphobia

Now, she says she’s “glad” to be confident enough that “such a large discourse had little effect over my self-worth.”

Instead of “responding cattily to hate comments made by men who would never have the gall to approach me in real life,” Erin chose to focus on “all the women telling me how much me being confident in my visibly plus-size body meant to them.”