Renee Wilkin is the latest celebrity to open up about being a victim of fatphobia. The singer took to Instagram to share her misadventure with a nurse.
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It is in an ephemeral publication showing her in the company of her child that Renee Wilkin relates the event she experienced.
“Special greetings to my mother’s nurse who asked me earlier: “When is that beautiful baby due?” To which I replied that I wasn’t pregnant. Who continued to insist, laughing, as if it were impossible since I was probably due any day now… To which I repeated that I REALLY wasn’t pregnant. So she told me curtly: “Come on, get up!!” Maybe to prove me wrong, who knows?” she wrote.
The finalist of The Voice 2 (in 2014) said she refused to get up, explaining to the nurse that it was better not to insist when a person confirmed that they were not pregnant.
“And yet she acted as if I had offended her. Well!” added the singer and author.
Enough with fatphobia!
The second edition of the campaign Enough with fatphobia!from ÉquiLibre, is being held right now, until October 4.
Several Quebec personalities have confided on social media that they have been victims of this type of microaggression and fatphobic remarks over the past few months.
Among these, Emilie Janvierthe sister of Marie-Eve Janvierlast July, Patricia Paquin, Melissa Bédard (who is the campaign ambassador Enough with fatphobia!) And Mariana Mazzawho wrote a very nice text on the subject last June.
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