The owners claimed that the weight limit was due to the old oak beams inside the cottage that could be damaged by overweight people.
An Airbnb advert told people weighing more than 16 stone that they were not welcome to stay at the cottage.
However it was re-listed yesterday removing references to eating disorders, but explaining the weight limit was due to ‘very old oak beams’.Fat activist Lindsay McGlone, 22, slammed the ‘discriminatory fatphobic’ hosts and Airbnb for allowing the listing on its site and demanded the hosts be banished from advertising with them again.
Lindsay said: ‘When I saw the listing I couldn’t believe what I was reading, I couldn’t comprehend that somebody would write that.‘I shared the listing because the people who wrote it need to be held accountable because it’s extremely damaging and I wanted it removed. ‘It’s probably come from internalised fatphobia and now they’re trying to justify it by saying they’ve got old oak in their house.
Self-professed ‘fierce fat feminist’ Lindsay, who is a size 24, said the ‘discriminatory’ listing also perpetuates the myth that someone living with an eating disorder looks a certain way.Lindsay said: ‘Somebody with an eating disorder doesn’t have to look a certain way, some are larger, some are smaller, this listing reinforces that they do.‘Society discriminates against fat people daily. I’ve always been fat, comfortable with my weight and the term ‘fat’.
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