Mom fights back against saleswoman she claims body-shamed her 13-year-old daughter at Dillard's

A mom of a teenager in Kansas is fighting back against a Dillard’s employee who she claimed body shamed her daughter by suggesting she should wear Spanx with a dress she tried on for her school’s formal.

Megan Naramore Harris said she was shopping with her 13-year-old daughter, Lexi, when a saleswoman made the “unkind” suggestion.

“In walked the sales lady and suggested that the dress was not very flattering to her," Harris wrote on Facebook in a post that has since gone viral. "I don't want to say exactly what she said because it was extremely unkind. But, she said, she needed to wear SPANX."

Dear sales lady at Dillard's Towne East Mall, This is my teenage daughter who wanted to try on dresses for an upcoming...

Posted by Megan Naramore Harris on Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Harris wrote in an open letter to the saleswoman, “I wish I had told you how many girls suffer from poor self image and telling them they need something to make them perfect can be very damaging.”

She went on to write about her daughter, Lexi, “She did not need you telling her that she is not perfect. I hope this is shared and gets back to you so that you should not say something like that to a girl ever again. You never know what negative or positive thoughts they are thinking about themselves.”

A corporate spokesperson for Dillard’s, Julie Johnson Bull, has released a statement to Kake and assured she has reached out to Harris and her daughter about the incident.

“At Dillard’s, our mission is to help people feel good about themselves by enhancing the natural beauty found in all of us,” said Bull. “We train our sales associates with the goal of creating a completely positive experience with each visit. It is certainly never our intent to offend our customers.”

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