Airline Passenger Fat-Shames Travellers, Declares: I Eat Salads!

To be clear, the racist homophobes who attacked Jussie Smollett are the worst people on the planet.

But the woman featured on this video has to rank among the bottom 10.

In footage that has been viewed by nearly three million people on Facebook, this unnamed passenger was on board a United Airline flight last week when she very openly and very loudly complained about the people sitting on each side of her.

The woman is in a middle seat and telling someone on the phone that the folks to her left and right are simply gross and overweight. 

She's saying this very much in their presence, of course.

“Oh my goodness, I don’t know how I’m going to do this the next four hours. This is just impossible because they’re squishing me,” she says in the video, adding:

“At least they’ll keep me warm."

After hanging up, the woman asks a flight attendant to find her a window seat and “get me out of here [because] I can’t do this."

At this point, one of the people who was the victim of the fat-shaming speaks up and says to the same flight attendant:

“Excuse me, can you find her another seat? Because I will not be verbally abused by this bitch or anybody else.” 

When the awful individual is finally told that, yes, she can change seats, she announce for all to hear:

“Thank goodness, because I eat salad, okay?"

Fortunately, many other passengers then spoke out in defense of the victims and against this despicable lady. 

“You should be ashamed of yourself, what you’re doing is so terrible," one person says, to which she replies:

“I’m not going to be politically correct. Why don’t you sit between those two big pigs?” 

Thankfully, this story has a positive ending: The abuser was eventually escorted off the plane.

“United flight attendants care about the safety and well being of all of our customers which is why they acted quickly to find a different seat for the disruptive customer,” a United spokesman said.

"When it became clear that this passenger’s behaviour was likely to be problematic on this flight, she was provided alternate travel arrangements first thing the next morning."