A woman in the UK is demanding that a popular discount store take a controversial scale off of its shelves for good.
As a woman who’s struggled with anorexia in the past, Rachel May Shevlin knows how harmful skinny mantras can be for a person with an eating disorder.
Like others who have succumbed to “pro-anorexia” advice, Shevlin built her day-to-day eating habits around ultra-thin supermodel Kate Moss’ infamous quote: “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”
It took years for Shevlin to understand how damaging those words were to her self-esteem.
That’s why she was absolutely floored to see Kate Moss’ controversial mantra written on none other than a scale at a discount store called B&M.
As Mashable reports, Shevlin immediately took to Facebook, where she vented about the disturbing scale:
“Would anyone like to join me in writing to b&m to tell them *how lovely to see the phrase I said to my teenage/ young adult self that also led to me calling myself a ‘fat , disgusting waste of oxygen’ often before self harming just because I had dinner, sold in their shops ON FRICKIN SCALES so other impressionable young minds can suffer the same self hatred?”
After seeing Shevlin’s photo, women all over the world were quick to jump in.
“As someone who refuses to allow scales in my house anymore, thanks to sentiments like the above ruining years of my life, this is probably the worst thing I could imagine,” Phoebe Stella Garrick Summers commented.
About a week after Shevlin’s post, B&M wrote on Facebook that the store has asked its supplier to get rid of the inscription on the scales in question, though it remains unclear if that actually happened.
