Mother of Teenage Girl Body Shamed by Store Employee Hits Back

(STORYFUL) - A mother of a 13-year-old girl who was told to wear Spanx by a store employee after she tried on a prom dress has hit back with an open letter on Facebook, January 21.

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

Megan Naramore Harris posted a photo of her daughter in a floor-length red gown, and wrote to the "sales lady" at Dillard's in Wichita, Kansas.

"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," wrote Harris in a post that's been shared over 75,000 times. "Girls of all ages, shapes and sizes are perfect because that is how God made them."