Shauna Arocho had been dieting and losing weight for a few months now thanks to her recent successful compliance to a paleo diet. So, when she found out about Dairy Queen’s Free Cone Day, she decided to treat herself with an ice cream cone, according to People.
However, while she was savoring every piece of her ice cream, a group of men who were driving by yelled, “Eat that ice cream you fat b***h!” Arocho shared the whole grueling experience on Facebook Live video.
Arocho said that she was following a strict paleo diet and managed to lose 120 pounds.
Arocho said in the video, “It’s really hard sometimes giving up sweets, giving up all this kind of stuff you just love to eat but is so bad for you. I have a really long way to go in my weight loss journey, but I’ve been encouraged by losing over 40 lbs. just this year — since Jan. 9 — so I decided to treat myself to a free ice cream cone.
“I just don’t understand what people get out of tearing other people down. You know nothing about my life or my circumstances. What if I had been in such a place that you saying that to me had made me go home and kill myself? I’m not in that place, but I could have been.”
She continued, “What do you get out of making me cry for the last 15 or 20 minutes? I finally calmed down enough to make a video, and I’m only doing it because I think that sharing this kind of thing is important.”
Arocho, who’s 27 years old, shared that was bullied all the time because of her weight.
Arocho wrote, “I know that I am fat, I don’t need strangers yelling out their car window for me to see that,” she wrote. “I’m not trying to get pity with this post, I am trying to get people to understand how detrimental bullying can be.”
Arocho’s video already had over ten million views and thousands of comments who were supportive of her. She wanted to educate people and remind them to think before they speak.
Arocho wrote a post on Tuesday following the incident, “I posted that video yesterday in the hopes that it would reach a few people, and maybe change a few hearts. It has almost 2 million views and I am just overwhelmed by the level of support people are giving a complete stranger.
“My faith in humanity has never been higher than it is right now. Yesterday my eyes were full tears from sadness. Today, the tears are happy ones.”
Watch the video here:
