I was fired for being too sexy in my office job
A woman has claimed her body shape has affected how she’s been treated her entire life — starting from when she was a child.
“I was reprimanded twice at 2 different offices for dressing ‘inappropriately,’ “ Nina Osegueda, 38, captioned her now-viral TikTok. “It’s just my shape.”
In the clip — which has been viewed more than 5.5 million times — the Washington, DC, resident said it doesn’t matter how she’s dressed because it’s always deemed “inappropriate” due to her curves.
“I learned that no matter how appropriately I’m dressed, my body is so distracting that I will never be dressed appropriately enough for the workplace,” she explained.
Osegueda — who also fronts the heavy metal band A Sound of Thunder — claimed in a previous TikTok she was fired on two separate occasions when she worked as a software trainer because her managers said she looked “too sexy” in workwear — admitting she’s been body-shamed by people since she was a teenager.
The 38-year-old said she was even fat-shamed by teachers when she was at school with adults constantly making remarks about her shape.
“I was on the swim team for most of my childhood and as soon as I hit my teen years, I was harassed by my teammates and my coaches. One coach, an adult woman, told me to ‘shake the fat off those thighs’ as a means of getting me to move faster,” she told the Daily Star.
Osegueda said she was in a theater program in high school and was told by her teachers to audition for the “funny fat girl” roles and stick to comedy.
“Because I didn’t have the right ‘look’ for a lead actress,” she said. “I knew I wanted to be a performer of some kind, so the abuse I took in high school made me stall a little and I wound up going to college for animation instead of music or theater. Luckily, I grew out of that and started singing again once I graduated.”
Osegueda’s TikTok posts sparked a discussion about how women are treated in the workplace due to their body shape. Thousands of users flooded the comments section, sharing their own experiences of body shaming.
“My work bestie had this problem too. her body was rocking but was always sent to HR over complaints, no matter how modestly she was dressed. just sad,” one user shared.
“My supervisor went to HR because this other woman felt ‘threatened,’ it was the way she ‘walked’ and she wanted to sue!” another commented.
“As a CHILD in middle school I got dressed coded for wearing the same things that other girls were, only I had more — let’s say assets — by then,” a woman wrote.
It’s not the first time a woman has been treated differently because of her body shape. Last month, a woman claimed her gym “fat shamed” her when she tried to quit, telling her she had to do the personal training sessions that came free with the membership before she could leave.
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