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On May 25, Más yo que nunca went on sale, a book written by Mara Jiménez in which the influencer talks about acceptance and self-esteem. The content creator, who for years has been dedicated to activism to end fatphobia, presented the work in Madrid, an event that has brought controversy.

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Who is Mara Jimenez, the influencer known as Croquetamente?

Jimenez is known as Croquetamente on Instagram, where she already accumulates more than 460,000 followers. She is also present on TikTok under the name of user @madredecroquetas and has more than 245,000 followers. Mara, who defines herself as an artist, creates content focused on the body positive movement, and she does not do it only through social networks. He is also the protagonist of the play Gordas, which claims diversity. In addition to More Me Than Ever, he previously wrote another book titled Accept and Fly: From Hating Me to Loving Me Without Measure.

What happened at the presentation of Mara Jiménez's book?

On May 31, Jiménez presented his book at the Fnac store in Callao (Madrid). There was the youtuber Adrián de Oliveira, known on the platform as RescueYou. Before the event started, the content creator asked questions about fatphobia to some of the fans queuing and subsequently entered the venue.

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Already during the presentation, Adrián de Oliveira took the floor and asked Jiménez what he would say to health professionals who are concerned about childhood obesity. "What I would say to those people who are so concerned, especially health professionals, is not to forget that, when you put a person in front of you in a consultation, it is a person, with a context, a history, multiple health factors that do not only depend on diet or exercise. Of course, health habits are positive for everyone, including children, but you can not only take into account a specific scale of such a thing, you have to go much deeper, "responded the influencer, who stressed the need to accept the diversity of bodies.

The YouTuber also asked why websites that promote anorexia are banned, but the same is not true of content or books that promote obesity. "You talk about my book as if you had actually read it, but in my book two chapters are dedicated, three in fact, to talk about how to pursue health, how to eat consciously in a healthy way, how to move to promote well-being. The problem here is that you continue to see us as the culprits, you continue to see us as the problem, when the problem is that you are not able to see our history and our context with perspective. Anorexia is the first mental disorder that causes more mortality and obesity is a risk factor, like tobacco, being a woman, having white skin, is a risk factor that can generate certain diseases. To this day, there is not a single pathology that only fat people have, "he clarified.

"Moreover, if we had it, it would not be justification for us to deserve less dignified treatment or for you to come to a space in which I come to present my book, which I have spent four months writing to help people, to try to question my message," added the author.

In addition, Mara Jiménez reproached Adrián de Oliveira for his attitude, as well as the fact that he was recording his intervention. "Wasn't it possible to wait for you at the end to ask me something you knew was going to be convulsive? It could even make people in this room uncomfortable who may have an eating disorder, who may have a problem. Was it really necessary?" he said. "And I ask, why not solve instead of normalize?" he said, to which the writer asked him about possible solutions to combat obesity. "A strict diet and exercise," he said, drawing laughter from attendees.

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"Look, I'm going to ask you, Fnac colleagues, to look for someone from security to take this person because this is shameful, this is shameful," concluded the instagrammer.

Mara Jimenez's response on Instagram

Although the exchange of words between Mara Jiménez and Adrián de Oliveira lasts around seven minutes, the event has gone viral because many media have only published the moment when, after proposing the solution of diet and exercise, the author and the rest of the attendees laugh. That's why the artist has decided to respond through Instagram.

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"I wasn't doing a talk to encourage obesity, and I wasn't laughing at diet and exercise. As a result of the manipulated video I have received death threats, insults and humiliation from all sides, numerous videos of people who then accuse me of profiting from my fatness and who are making money by making videos of what has happened and falsely accusing me, and the worst, a very serious impact on the people around me. revealed the writer, who accused the media of manipulating the information and not having told everything that happened.

Adrián de Oliveira's version

For his part, Adrián de Oliveira intervened on June 5 in Y ahora Sonsoles to give his version. "I asked a couple of totally coherent questions, with all the respect and humility in the world," he said, who says Jimenez has branded him a misogynist, homophobe and fascist. "I don't know what it has to do with a very clear question, what do you think of childhood obesity and health professionals who are concerned about your normalizing discourse," he explained.

"We can't send the message of 'you can't do anything and you can't fix your health problem.' At no time do I advocate attacking a person simply because they are obese," he added.

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