A woman has taken to social media to reveal the heartbreaking difference in how she's treated now that she's put on weight.
Bartender Cassidy Lane - who goes by the username @body_positive_bartender on TikTok - took to the social media website to respond to a person who asked people with "pretty privilege" to share their world view.
Lane said: "The way you look influences it [the bartending job] at lot. Whether that's tips or how people treat you, it just does."
Tearing up in the video, she explained that she sought help for an eating disorder last year, and this caused meant that her "whole life changed" as she went on to gain weight during the pandemic.
Watch the heartbreaking TikTok below:A crying Lane added: "People don't look you in the eye anymore. They're not nice to you - especially men."
She explained that she would walk up to customers and say: "Hey, how's it going? How are you?"
Lane said that before she gained weight, they would reply: "I'm doing really great honey, how are you?"
However, they now say: "It's a little more like 'Two Coors Lights and a Bud Light.'"
She concluded her heartbreaking TikTok by challenging those who don't believe that pretty privilege exists.
"For people saying that doesn't actually happen, please raise your hand if you would willingly like to live as a fat person," she said. "And the fact that no one raises their hand makes the point."
Lane ends the video by saying how, "it just makes you feel hopeless" and asked, "am I ever gonna be worth more than my looks?"
The TikTok did not go unnoticed as it racked up over 1.2 million times and received thousands of comments, at the time of writing.
Reacting to the video, one TikTok user wrote: "My weight has fluctuated all my life. I am 100% treated nicer when I weigh less."
A second added: "As someone who has been fat my whole life this actually kinda makes me feel better because it means that it's not really a me problem. I have to talk."
A third wrote: "And skinny girls wonder why we need the Body positivity movement. We aren't treated as humans because of our weight."
Meanwhile, a fourth added: "I've gained and lost weight so many times due to my ED, and people always [treated] me better when I was smaller."
Have you ever been treated differently because of your weight like Lane? Let us know in the comments!
