Blogger Constance Hall Shares Honest Post About Shopping and Body Shame
Yesterday, a body-shamed blogger realized she wasn’t being body shamed by anyone but herself. Wait, what?
Constance Hall, the popular, lighthearted blogger behind Queens of Constance, posted a revelation and a hilarious photo to accompany it on her Facebook page, and her fans are loving it. The Australian mom of three was shopping for a new dress, as she explains, when an employee tried to help her find the right size, suggesting that Hall was in the wrong section of the store.
“Sorry darling those racks are size 6s and 8s only, the other racks will be better for you,” the shop assistant said, according to Hall. Offended, the blogger retorted, “That’s cool. I am a size 6,” though she admits she was lying. “That’s when we shared one of those awkward moments, the ones where she knows I’m lying, I know that she knows that I’m lying, she knows that I know that she knows that I’m lying,” Hall mused. Indignant, the mom grabbed a size 6 dress anyway and stormed off to the dressing room.
Of course, she couldn’t squeeze her body into a dress that wasn’t her size, and the result was a defeated Hall stuck halfway in the dress as she stood in her underwear in the fitting room. The moment was too epic not to share with the world, so Hall snapped a photo of herself wrapped up in the frock and posted it on Facebook and then captioned the silly shot with the lesson she’d learned by jumping to conclusions.
“Feeling under enthused with the unsurprising results I returned from the change room and told her that the colour did nothing for me,” Hall says in an utterly relatable confession of pathetic backpedaling. “She [the employee] responded with, ‘Wow, you are one of those beautiful women that I would think suits every colour.’ Hmmmmm. It would appear that she is not the a***hole…. I am.”
“She wasn’t body shaming my delicious #mummob she was being practical, it was ME who body shamed myself by taking offence!!!!!!” Hall concluded in her post. “Today was a reminder that NO dress sizes are BETTER then any OTHER. It’s YOUR BODY. You only have ONE. Love it.”
In her bio, Hall confesses (more like, warns) that she loves over-sharing. “I push myself with every single article/post to strip back my inhibitions and share thoughts that even I wasn’t aware of until I revealed them to you,” she says of her journey toward self-awareness. “By the time I post it, I’m feeling so exposed, I usually have to close my eyes, take a deep breath, hit share and just wait for the adverse reactions the raw truth can invite,” the inspirational blogger continues.
She admits to wanting to connect with, learn from, and inspire other women with her stripped-bare content. “Women are so incredible, I cry daily with my readers and their personal struggles,” she writes on her site. “I love women. So much, they inspire me, warm me up and drive me to help make a difference. Younger queens, older queens, baby queens, queens from all over the world,” Hall says. “I want to connect with them, learn from them, fill them with confidence and validate them for all the crazy weird and wonderful s*** they go through.”
And her fans feel the same, judging by the response her “body shaming myself” post got on Facebook: 68,000 likes and almost 2,000 comments in just nine hours. That’s nothing to be ashamed of!
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