When Madelyn Sheaffer, a 43-year-old mom from Odessa, Missouri, decided to take her family to the Adventure Oasis Water Park in Independence for a fun day out, she had no idea that it would turn into an epic battle for her rights.
What started as something seemingly harmless quickly escalated into an incident of body discrimination and humiliation.
Madelyn Sheaffer was a dedicated mother who always put family first and went to great lengths to ensure her children were taken care of.
One day, as she leaned over to take a bath, she slipped and fell into the tub. Emergency personnel arrived but since Sheaffer was in too much pain to be moved, they turned away. This incident served as a wake-up call that made her realize it was time to make a change because years of neglecting herself had been severely harming her body.
With this realization came determination; Sheaffer decided to start making efforts towards losing weight which she duly did with success – nearly 100 pounds!
After months of hard work and dedication towards getting healthy again, Sheaffer felt proud enough about her accomplishments to wear a bikini in public for the first time ever during the same fateful family outing at the waterpark. However, this decision ended up being one that costed Herr dearly…
It all began when Herr took off her dress upon entering the park and sat down in the pool wearing only her swimsuit – not thinking anything wrong with what she wore or how she looked in it until all eyes around suddenly shifted toward her direction like daggers piercing through skin.
Two female teenage employees began giving Herr “the side-eye” at a distance before eventually approaching her and telling Herr that some people had complained about how revealing her bikini bottoms were, even though they were “full size” bottoms according to standards set by society today.
Feeling embarrassed yet enraged by their rude comments on both age and body discrimination simultaneously, Herr stood up against them bravely by refusing to cover up or leave despite their orders when more staff members showed up shortly afterwards along with police officers who unfortunately sided with them ultimately forcing Herr out of park premises against will.
Herr’s story is not unique by any means unfortunately; many women have faced similar experiences where their bodies have been judged harshly based on looks alone regardless of what they actually choose wear while other women are allowed get away wearing far less without any questions asked nor judgement passed on their looks or appearance whatsoever from those standing guard regarding attire regulations such places (and there are plenty).
