A plus-size content creator who once thought she was “too fat to travel” is now planning group holidays for curvy women where every place they visit will have stronger seats and beds without slats. Kirsty Leanne, 29, from Telford, Shropshire, began creating TikTok content after noticing a gap in the market for plus-size friendly travel.
She wanted to show other women that, whatever their size, they could travel comfortably. Kirsty said she would love to see it become more acceptable for plus-size people to ring up restaurants to see if there is a comfortable place they can sit and for places to be transparent about their seat sizes so plus-size people can reserve bigger seats ahead of time.
The influencer hopes to encourage other full-figured women to stop putting exciting things off until they have lost weight and show they can do anything they want regardless of their dress size. When Kirsty was at the University of Westminster studying business management and marketing in 2012, she did a work abroad programme in California and knew from that moment on she wanted to travel the globe – but put off doing it because she thought she was “too fat to travel”.
