Influencer accuses airline of discriminating due to her size

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Juliana Nehme, 38, an influencer and plus-size model from Brazil accused Middle Eastern airline Qatar Airways from discriminating against her due to her size.

In it she explained that she, her mother, sister and nephew were on holiday in Lebanon and on their way home to Brazil, via, Doha, when a staffer told her she would have to purchase a more expensive first-class seat if she wanted to board the flight.

In her clip, which has attracted more than 50,000 ‘likes’ and thousands of comments since she shared it on Thursday, Juliana explained she had no issues boarding an Air France flight into Lebanon where she and her family were on holiday. “A Qatar airline called my mother while the lady was finishing our check in and told her that I wasn’t welcome to board because I’m fat and they weren’t going to welcome me on the flight!” she said.

“I am desperate, they don’t want to board me, because I’m fat. I need to buy a business ticket, which is $2,029, I don’t have this money. I don’t know what to do, there is only 30 minutes until the airplane takes off. They are saying I have no right to board in the airplane, because I’m fat. I don’t know what to do.”

She ended up staying in Beirut Airport, Lebanon with her mum, while her sister and nephew caught the Qatar Airlines flight to Doha, Qatar.

 

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Doing her best to get an extra seat for free. Good on airline.👏

They refuse to give snaks

So you want another whole seat for free? If you take up 2 seats pay for 2 seats. Otherwise hop on a treadmill and start dieting.

Not news.

Between the World Cup and now this, I'm beginning to like Qatar.

It’s not the airlines fault you are bigger then their seats.

What is she influencing?

Bruh who is she influencing 🤣

Always gotta blame someone else eh?

Good for them, imagine you are the unfortunate paying customer she is squeezing out of the seat for 7 hours. Thank goodness they tossed her.

If she can’t fit in the seat then oh well

She should have traveled in a large animal carrier in the luggage compartment.

🤣🤣🤣💩💩💩💩

“Influencer” of what exactly?

Lol

You lost me at ‘influencer’.

Loose weight 😂

Uh hun…there’s no political correctness in the Middle East! 🤷🏾‍♂️

Space=$$. Just how much you wanna take up

She looks massive

Please tell me what she had influenced?

The real victim here is any chair she sits on

This young lady needs to save her money because I see a double knee replacement in her future.

Yada! Yada! Yada!

What do these people influence. Jenny Craig I mean really I don’t need to be told what food or clothes are good I got my own eyes try a real job

Your not sexy your Fat and you have a food addiction that is going to kill you 👍🏻

What the hell does an obese Brazilian tring to catch a flight in the Middle East have to do with Australians, lolololol.

What is the real issue here? To fly taking adjacent space for free and forcing seat holders into less space than they paid for and deserve? Do the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many? If a passenger were 500 LBs, precisely …let’s stop the false narrative.

Woman is as wide as a DOOR and feels like she's a victim of something. Newsflash, there are people starving in the favelas probably not far from where this cow lives. How many of them would love to eat what she does in one sitting? Or could afford to go to Qatar? Gluttony

America needs a cattle airline.. with over 80% over weight.... nothing but cash

🍺😎

The new world.. I abuse my body then sue someone.

So someone who is obese believe they are entitled to more than those who are not.

🤢

She “influences” the person next to her to request a seat change.

If this woman wants to look this way its her choice & her right to do so. However if her choices have now limited her other ways (needing to purchase more space) these are the realities of everyone. This is not discrimination. I smoke, I can’t smoke in public places I accept this

being obese is a choice. garbage in = garbage stored to body. less garbage in = reduction in fatness. takes fuel to move mass. why should the cost of a seat be the same for a child as this whale?

Influencer? Never heard of you number one....

“Influencer” of what ?

Maybe stop eating all of the McDonald's

What is she a influencer of ? Buffets

🚨 BREAKING! 🚨 keep reading this app you will be stressed out for no reason!! 🚨

If you cannot fit in a seat, it’s a red flag. It means you might not fit in an MRI machine either.

Well they can’t widen the seats on demand. It’s not discrimination, it’s common sense.🙄

“Influencer”

Because she couldn't fit in cargo class.

Ooof

She could just stop eating so much and live healthier.

Discriminations? girl, you should be charged for extra fuel usage.

SydneyLWatson has entered the conversation 😂

Operation Dumbo Drop.

Go lose some weight before u cut your life short!

Get the hint honey?

Qatar Airways said any passenger “who impedes upon the space of a fellow traveller and cannot secure their seatbelt or lower their armrests may be required to purchase an additional seat both as a safety precaution and for the comfort and safety of all passengers,” 👏🏽👍🏼👏🏽👍🏼👏🏽

As they should 🤷‍♂️

Anyway she would not fit in one seat, she would be using 2 seats due to her size, just analyze and use common sense, either buy two seats or go “business class” The airline did not stop her from traveling.

Pay for two seats. Issue solved. You no right to half of my seat because you can’t stop eating

Too bad fatty.

Anyone that refers to themselves as an influencer belongs on Buddy Holly's plane, Big Bopper.

You have two options: 1. Lose weight 2. Buy a first class ticket. Those seats are wider. You are not a victim, you are a lazy gal who needs to lay off the donuts and start taking responsibility for your life, that includes your health.

I’m don’t get why she is turning this into something like that. The company offered her two options. Either she could buy the next seat ticket or in the business class. There’s another thing to it. Here in Brazil, she can get a bariatric surgery for free in a public hospital.

Sumo time

Pretty funny article, sounds like hearsay to me.

It doesn’t sound like she influenced anything.

I’m disgusted by the term influencer . It’s another word for fake advertising.

She must go to gym.

Placing reasonable restrictions on someone who is morbidly obese and flying on a cramped airplane isn't 'discrimination'.

Shipping is priced by weight and girth.

Let her pay for two seats, and she'll be fine. She abuses if she wants to put her fat on her neighbor

She got knees growing on her knees. She's like 600lbs. She should have to buy 3 seats

If (part of) your ass is in my seat, we have a problem. I paid for 100% of it.

now airlines have to adapt to transport small containers in the cabin just because she decided to eat 5 Big Macs every day of her life what a world!

Physics is racist?

Lol settle down crazy eyes

good. she’s gross

Lol

Fact: the airlines jam TOO MANY seats on planes because: it makes them $. Fact: Only small people are “comfortable” in coach. Fact: X large folks steal/invade valuable space from other passengers when they hang over the edge of their seat yet pay the same for tickets.

2 fat gotta pay for 2 seats. Get over it or try a diet .

Lets talk about the elephant in the room

freight is based on weight

Well it's not really discrimination when you are a flight risk because of your weight... just change your eating lifestyle and be consistent with it

Put the twinkies down and hop on a treadmill. After a while, it won't be an issue 👍

If you lose weight, you can solve the problem easily.

“I stuff my face and then bitch when people notice”

Fat, skinny, old young, pretty ugly, we all get discriminated against have a cup of concrete

PEAK ENTITLEMENT

use a truck or a cargo plane

So, if I’m so fat, that I do not even fit in the seat, the airline is to be blame 😂😂 this is murica 🤡

Influencer? Of what food?

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