Going to Disney parks can be a stressful proposition if you’re plus size: Will you fit in a ride? If your friends want to go to lunch, will it be a tight squeeze in the booth?
Content creator Stephanie Lanciani and her friends, Ashley, Sarah, Deanna and Katie, know that firsthand. As plus-size women, they’ve dealt with that pre-ride angst. They’ve even worried about how size-friendly an attraction will be the night before a Disney World or Disneyland trip.
“We’ve all done what is known in the plus size community as ‘the walk of shame’ at one point in our lives,” Lanciani told HuffPost.
For instance, when Avatar Flight of Passage, a 3D flying simulator, opened in Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World in 2017, all five women avoided going on it for a year out of fear they wouldn’t fit. (The group ranges in sizes from 2x to 4x.)
“We had tried watching videos that depicted people of our size getting on the ride, but it was difficult to find people who shared our body types, so ultimately we all avoided it for the first year it was open,” Lanciani said. “I remember thinking then, maybe we could make those videos.”
