Madelyn Sheaffer was looking for a leisurely time at Missouri’s Adventure Oasis Water Park. Instead, she got booted for her “curvaceous figure.”
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Sheaffer got into a pool at the water park with her niece and nephew wearing what she thought was an average bikini.
But employees came up to her and told her that she had to put on shorts because her bikini bottoms were too small.
Sheaffer turned to local NBC affiliate KSHB to tell her story, claiming that she was a victim of “age and body discrimination.”
“I felt like I could look around me and I could see a handful of other girls half my age, wearing the same size swimming suit,” Sheaffer told KSGB. “[They were] not being singled out and told to put on clothes or leave.”
Sheaffer asked the park’s supervisor to call police so that she could report the situation. When police arrived, she was escorted out and allowed to file a complaint.
The city of Independence said that attire rules are at the manager’s discretion.
Sheaffer had recently lost 100 pounds and just began to wear a bikini in public.
When you’re an advocate for women like we here are at Guyism (we’re practically a non-profit), you have to take the good with the bad. Maybe I wouldn’t want a front row seat to Madelyn Sheaffer frolicking in a pool with ten inches of fabric covering a city mile of cuves. But you can’t treat her differently just because her recently downsized derriere may look like it was sitting in a gravel driveway. She has rights to show off the goods, too.
There are more photos of Madelyn Sheaffer on her Facebook if you feel the need to get to the bottom of the story.