In 2002, I was the type of elementary school kid who was keenly aware of and dependent on the transformative power of shapewear. I wasn’t even 10, but I knew that I didn’t look the way a girl was supposed to look — was I even a girl with a gut like this? I didn’t know. I did know that SlimFast made you dizzy, that Dr. Siegel’s famous Cookie Diet tasted like crap, and LeanSpa was a scam. I drank energy drinks marketed as meal replacements and developed a healthy fear of guarana. A bully whom I’ll neither forgive nor forget once described me as “a rolling sea of flesh waves,” and one whose name has long escaped me once pulled me aside and said, “Everyone thinks you look pregnant, are you?”
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Kirby Mansour worked at an Abercrombie & Fitch store in Charlotte, North Carolina from 2011 to 2013, first as a model and then as a manager. She shared stories from her time there.
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Speaking in White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, former employees claimed they were sidelined from their jobs at the retailer's US stores because of their ethnicity,