Blogger Gaëlle Prudencio publishes "Proud to be myself" and has successfully launched her brand of plus size clothing.

Guest of Anne Roumanoff Thursday in "It feels good", she analyzes three moments of daily life where she is regularly discriminated against because of her weight. 

INTERVIEW

She's fucking grossophobia.

Blogger Gaëlle Prudencio launched a collection of plus size clothing with her brand Ibilola, which sold out in 15 minutes.

She also publishes 

Proud to be myself, accepting yourself when you do not meet the standards of society,

a book touted on Instagram by Carla Bruni.

Guest of

It

feels 

good

, Gaëlle Prudencio explains how the grossophobia she denounces is expressed in daily life, through three concrete examples.

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In shops

Gaëlle Prudencio begins with one of her hobbies: shopping.

In France, it is almost impossible for him to find clothes in his size.

Say goodbye to the pleasure of shopping, finding something to wear becomes a challenge.

To the point of having to ask a friend on a trip to the United States to bring her an entire suitcase of plus-size clothes, which are much easier to find there.

"It was Ali Baba's cave in a suitcase, but with clothes that I had never imagined wearing until then", recalls the blogger, who had until then had her clothes sewn at a dressmaker.

It is to prevent other women from continuing to suffer from this problem that Gaëlle Prudencio has created her own brand.

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By plane

Gaëlle Prudencio is also annoyed by the attitude of the flight crew when she takes the plane.

To fasten her seat belt, she needs an extension.

"There are always two reactions: either the air hostess is embarrassed, and gives me the belt a little under the coat. But me, when you see me, you know I need the belt", laughs she does.

"Or they give it to me with a really horrified look. And there are also the other passengers. All the attention is focused on me, and besides I am not discreet," she explains.

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Of course, Gaëlle Prudencio has been taking the plane less for a year.

But the first confinement brought its new batch of grossophobia.

"It really shocked me, because I was afraid of dying, we kept saying that a lot of people who died were obese people. And the TV hosts who made edits and jokes about 'they were afraid to put on weight because of the confinement, ”she wonders.

"I realized, once again, to what extent the culture of regimes had a place in our society", she observes.

At the doctor

Gaëlle Prudencio also remembers a remark from a gynecologist who was examining her.

He exclaimed: "We'll have to stop with all this fat, we can't see anything!".

"I changed gynecologist", she reassures.

"The doctor is a figure of authority. We are not necessarily going to defend ourselves, we are a little weak."

The blogger would like doctors to question fat patients about their knowledge of the risks and their journey, rather than making violent remarks.

"Ok, the doctor is there to alert. Yes, there are risks with obesity," she admits.

"But, concretely, I came to see him for a smear. What is the relation with my fat?"