One in a Million
She couldn't help but notice that while the waterpark was packed with kids, there were tons of adults watching them, and a lot of those adults were also wearing bikinis. "This was not a thong," she stated in a later interview, "It was a standard, summertime, two-piece, string bikini… the same as everyone else who felt confident enough in their body to wear one." The staff weren't mad about the bikini, she realized, they were mad about her...
Embarrassed Again
Madelyn felt like she was back in high school with all the body-shaming and bullying. "My body is different from the young girls that were walking around in their bikinis," she acknowledged, "but why should I be made ashamed of my body? I am a 43-year-old woman who did not have the confidence or the body to put on a bikini until 40 years old." She felt that she was being discriminated against...