Is there a picture that shows the back of the bottoms? Do we know its not a thong-style?
If it was full coverage then yeah, the park was being assholes.
I also think she looks pretty fucking good in the first photo in the article.
There are pics in an article I saw yesterday that showed the bottom. It covers her butt just fine, not a thong style or even skimpy bikini style, IMO.
My problem is that her bathing suit just doesn't fit. I have been in her shoes before, losing a ton of weight and then just going nuts with too-small clothes. The top just doesn't fit.
I still think they are being discriminating, but I see their point.
Also she is like 30. I saw an article yesterday where I would have sworn she was 50-60. It was really strange. (Also, in one of the videos they mention she was told to put a shirt on, not just cover up her butt. I don't see how her behind is a problem here.)
Post by EmilieMadison on Jul 11, 2013 7:31:49 GMT -5
1. She doesn't have a "fuller figure"
2. I think there's probably more to the story
ETA: I just dont believe they asked her to leave because of her body shape or the cut of her bikini. My guess (and it's just a guess) is that she wasn't able to keep her suit in place consistently- constant boob popping out- and was asked to either put on a different suit or to put on a shirt. Or, she decided to untie her top while she was lying down to tan and was asked to tie it back up or put on a cover up. Or something else entirely. But, I dont know, I see women who look like that wearing things that look like that at public pools all the time, and if they asked all of them to coverup or leave, there wouldn't be anyone left at the pool but teenagers and toddlers.
Is there a picture that shows the back of the bottoms? Do we know its not a thong-style?
If it was full coverage then yeah, the park was being assholes.
I also think she looks pretty fucking good in the first photo in the article.
There are pics in an article I saw yesterday that showed the bottom. It covers her butt just fine, not a thong style or even skimpy bikini style, IMO.
My problem is that her bathing suit just doesn't fit. I have been in her shoes before, losing a ton of weight and then just going nuts with too-small clothes. The top just doesn't fit.
I still think they are being discriminating, but I see their point.
Also she is like 30. I saw an article yesterday where I would have sworn she was 50-60. It was really strange. (Also, in one of the videos they mention she was told to put a shirt on, not just cover up her butt. I don't see how her behind is a problem here.)
There are pics in an article I saw yesterday that showed the bottom. It covers her butt just fine, not a thong style or even skimpy bikini style, IMO.
My problem is that her bathing suit just doesn't fit. I have been in her shoes before, losing a ton of weight and then just going nuts with too-small clothes. The top just doesn't fit.
I still think they are being discriminating, but I see their point.
Also she is like 30. I saw an article yesterday where I would have sworn she was 50-60. It was really strange. (Also, in one of the videos they mention she was told to put a shirt on, not just cover up her butt. I don't see how her behind is a problem here.)
She is 42.
LOL! An article I read yesterday said 31. This is such a disjointed story!
I think there's more to the story. I could see that swimsuit being very...mobile at a water park. It looks pretty small for her. I know if I wore something similar I'd constantly have to readjust just floating in an inner tube on a lazy river to avoid flashing everyone and their mother. I don't think it would hold up well coming down a slide or in a wave pool. I'm not nearly as busty as her.
Maybe nothing like that happened and the park are just assholes, but my money is on something else contributing to that decision.
Makes me proud to be from Missouri (That was sarcasm, if you can't see the rolly eye face)
absolutely discrimination. If they are going to ask her to cover up, they are going to have to ask all the scantily clad 17 year olds to cover up. But they won't do that, because they want a certain "look" to the park, and the scantily clad 17 year olds bring in the teenage boys.
I wouldn't wear it but I certainly find it hard to believe that the bathing suit alone is a reason to call the police to escort her out. I can't help but wonder how that call from the waterpark to the police went.... that the police agreed to come down and take her off the premisis when it doesn't appear any laws were broken.
I wouldn't wear it but I certainly find it hard to believe that the bathing suit alone is a reason to call the police to escort her out. I can't help but wonder how that call from the waterpark to the police went.... that the police agreed to come down and take her off the premisis when it doesn't appear any laws were broken.
If they asked her to leave and she didn't then she is trespassing.
I think its entirely possible that a couple of summer-job, 18-22 year olds decided to tell her to cover up because they didn't like the way she looked and then used their authority to kick her out - simply because she said no.
I, too, feel like there has got to be more to this story. I think a bikini top like that at a waterpark could very easily move around on a woman of ANY size. It's possible she had a little boob slip once or twice, and that's what they took issue with (which I agree with).
Also, I wouldn't have an issue with them wanting a certain form of....modesty? in swimwear if it's supposed to be a family place IF they applied those rules to EVERYONE regardless of size (which I doubt they do).
So if there was no boob slippage and she was the only person asked to cover up, then yeah, I think it's crappy.
I wouldn't wear it but I certainly find it hard to believe that the bathing suit alone is a reason to call the police to escort her out. I can't help but wonder how that call from the waterpark to the police went.... that the police agreed to come down and take her off the premisis when it doesn't appear any laws were broken.
I believe the local news reported that she is the one who called the police or at least asked for the police to be called because she felt she was being discriminated against.
Also, although in the pictures she has released, the bikini bottoms seem to cover her ok, I thought in the local news story (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/full-figured-missouri-woman-allegedly-kicked-swimming-pool-wearing-bikini-article-1.1389763 embedded at the bottom) they looked a little low-slung and could imagine that when she was bending over or sitting down she was showing too much.
I wouldn't wear it but I certainly find it hard to believe that the bathing suit alone is a reason to call the police to escort her out. I can't help but wonder how that call from the waterpark to the police went.... that the police agreed to come down and take her off the premisis when it doesn't appear any laws were broken.
I believe the local news reported that she is the one who called the police or at least asked for the police to be called because she felt she was being discriminated against.
Also, although in the pictures she has released, the bikini bottoms seem to cover her ok, I thought in the local news story (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/full-figured-missouri-woman-allegedly-kicked-swimming-pool-wearing-bikini-article-1.1389763 embedded at the bottom) they looked a little low-slung and could imagine that when she was bending over or sitting down she was showing too much.
Well that is a twist, I didn't know she called them. Bizarre
Post by cheeseandcrackers on Jul 11, 2013 8:39:55 GMT -5
Eh, she looks fine and i've seen way worse in water parks.. there probably IS more to the story. Do I think the bathing suit is properly fitted on her? No. Do I think she should have gotten kicked out? Nope. I vote there is more to the story.
Eh, not a great fit but it covers what it needs to cover and she is in no way too big (I don't remember the phrase the article used, full figure?) to be wearing it. It's either discrimination or there's more to the story. I also can't imagine she was even the biggest person there in a two piece or the least covered adult at the park which makes me think it's the latter.