That’s been the motivation behind the hundreds of haul videos Bader has posted since.
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“We should just be able to wear these clothes.
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Why is it so hard?”
For this, she was instantly labeled a face of the internet’s plus-size community.
Before becoming a model and influencer, Bader worked in entertainment marketing.
Bader at the Revolve Festival on April 16, 2022, in California.
She wasn’t involved in fat activism or the body-positivity community at all until her overnight stardom.
She’ll be the first person to admit it.
“I didn’t know until I started getting some backlash from the plus-size community…
I never heard the terms, ‘I’m a small-fat, I’m not a large-fat.'”
“Just because [a piece of clothing] fits me doesn’t mean it’s inclusive.
These fashion companies might be expanding sizes, but ‘inclusive’ is so much more than that.”
“I was wrong for using the wrong terminology,” she says.
These fashion companies might be expanding sizes, but ‘inclusive’ is so much more than that."
She is not a fashion designer with a degree in the field.
She is not an activist.
She’s just a woman, trying on clothes.
And therein lies another absurdity in theplus-size experience.
It’s not a revolution of representation.
There are zero expectations to change the industry at large.
Bader at the Revolve Festival on April 16, 2022, in California.
Bader’s is a classic case of a double-edged sword.
This story highlights two incredibly complex issues with the internet’s handling of plus-size fashion influencers.
Bader’s degree of fame and what she wants to accomplish with it certainly snowballed somewhere along the way.
“I think that my community supports me because they feel the same way [as I do].
They’re going through life.
They’re going through all the same things,” she explains.