Courtesy of Melissa Drake
- I'm a plus-sized woman who moved from the Midwest to Southern California.
- I was lovingly accepted until a stranger made a derogatory remark in the grocery store.
- I was shocked, and it caused me to reconsider my thinking about my body.
The man who fat-shamed me at a grocery store in Irvine, California, bounced into the store, wearing his too-short shorts and a tank top that revealed his contoured abs. At a glance, he appeared as the epitome of a California stereotype: a health nut and yoga enthusiast, perfectly poised, with his nose a little too high in the air.