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Karina Babenok

“Obesity Is A Choice”: Plus-Size Traveler Slammed For Calling Out Airport Staff Discrimination

Plus-size travel influencer Jae’lynn Chaney slammed Seattle–Tacoma International Airport for discrimination after an employee allegedly forced her out of her wheelchair and made her walk down the airplane’s aisle all the way to her seat.

Taking to her TikTok page last Tuesday (May 14), Jae’lynn posted a video of herself boarding an airplane in Seattle, Washington, USA.

The 27-year-old explained that she had requested wheelchair assistance, an initiative she claimed to always do as a result of her physical condition as a “plus-size wheelchair user.”

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