North Carolina boy accuses Santa of fat-shaming
Anthony Mayse was reduced to tears during a trip to see Santa when his Christmas request for an iPod Touch and a drone was allegedly met with fat shaming from the big man in red.
“When he got done he said, ‘Lay off the hamburgers and French fries,” the North Carolina 9-year-old told WLOS. “And that really just disrespected me, and I felt awful.”
Mayse was so upset following the experience he tore up his picture with Kris Kringle, who is employed by Forest City to bring joy and spread holiday cheer.
“I’m hoping he’s fired because I don’t want any kid feeling like he did,” his mother, Ashley Mayse, told WLOS. “I mean it destroyed him.”
The young boy said he felt so terrible he would never visit Father Christmas again.
“If affected me so bad that I was crying until I went to bed that night,” he said. “And I want to say to him, ‘You don’t want to disrespect a 9-year-old ... what shape and size you are, it doesn’t matter.”
The Santa who insulted the young boy later apologized to the family, WLOS reported.
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