A TikToker has blasted viewers who say her relationship doesn't "add up" because she and her husband have different body types.
Alicia McCarvell - who has over 5 million followers on the social media platform - is known for promoting body positivity and preaching self-love.
However, sadly the responses to Alicia's TikTok's - particularly those featuring her high-school sweetheart and husband Scott - aren't always positive.
In a recent video, Alicia called out the reactions to one of her videos as particularly disappointing. The clip in question showed her and Scott in towels, then transitioned to them glammed up and ready for a formal event.
Although the video was a hit (amassing over 43 million views), Alicia noticed that a lot of the attention it was receiving was from people shocked that she and Scott were a couple.
In a follow up TikTok, she called out people whose first response had been to question why someone who was physically fit would be with someone deemed 'fat' by society.
"The world looks at us and immediately values Scott more than me. And since we don’t add up, people try to add things to my side of the equation to make it make sense by saying things like, 'Oh, she must not have been fat when they met' or 'Oh, she’s got to be rich,'" she said in the clip.
"Or they try to decrease his side of the equation by saying things like, 'He must be gay' or 'He fetishes fat women,'" Alicia continued.
"We’ve been made to believe that somebody who is physically fit like Scott could never in a million years be in love with or compatible with a fat woman. And that’s solely because the world has literally taught us that we have to value our worth on our bodies," she added.
"On the scale of what my husband values, how well my body fits into the beauty standard is not at the top of his list. He values my humor and my commitment and my love and my caring heart — and none of these things he values about me changes when my body changes," Alicia explained.
She rounded off the video by saying that it is our responsibility to "unlearn" the damaging ideas society has taught us.
"If this is the way you think, it's the way you've been taught. However, it is your responsibility to unlearn it," she told her followers.
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