Woman Fights Public Fat-Shamers By Giving Body-Positive Cards To Strangers

When fashion blogger Bethany Rutter heard about “fat-shaming” cards being handed out in tube stations across London, UK, she decided to fight the cowardly bullies with positivity and body confidence.

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Bethany first saw the cruel cards on social media, after seeing this tweet from someone who received a card from so-called OverweightHaters Ltd.

The nasty message on the card tells the receipient, “You’re a fat, ugly human,” adding that, “We do not understand why you fail to grasp that by eating less you will be better off, slimmer, happy and find a partner who is not a perverted chubby lover – or even find a partner at all.”

Bethany works for German plus-sized clothing company Navabi, who agreed to print out positive cards in response to the fat shamers.

Bethany’s cards simply read, “You look great!”

She tweeted the body-confident cards and headed out to hand her cards to strangers.

“I handed them out in one of the busiest areas of London. Only a couple of people asked what it was about and they were shocked by overweight haters and really receptive towards my more positive idea. Most people just said thank you with a happy, bemused look on their face.”

Bethany’s idea sparked a wave of positive cards appearing all over Twitter.

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Woodstock Taylor’s card, above, mimicked Overweight Haters own: “We do not understand why you fail to understand that by stopping bullying you will be better off in yourself, calmer, happy and more likely to find a partner…”

Others used their own terminology to spread the body love.

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And others still simply hugged early-morning commuters.

The positive wave kept growing and gaining new ideas.

Navabi even went a step further than cards and actually bought the domain name OverweightHaters.com, replacing their fat-shaming site with the story behind the cards.

Bethany told TODAY, “I’m really happy that I’m not alone in doing this and more people are making positive cards.”

“London is known as being such a difficult, hostile city, but so many people who live here are happy, positive people.”