‘I was body-shamed for letting my ‘boobs hang out’ at the gym’

A woman has revealed the moment she was confronted by a woman at the gym for letting her “boobs hang out”.

A woman has revealed the moment she was confronted by a woman at the gym for letting her 'boobs hang out'. Picture: SWNS

A woman has revealed the moment she was approached by a woman at the gym over her choice of athletic attire.

Kylen Suttner, 21, was doing chestpresses when the fellow gym-goer approached her, allegedly telling the young mum her light blue crop top wasn’t “respectful” and that “no one wants to look at your boobs hanging out”.

The woman continued: “We’re in a public place, can you be respectful? No one wants to look at your boobs hanging out”.

“I don’t know why she singled me out because there were other people in the gym wearing way more revealing clothes,” Suttner, from Utah, told South West News Service.

“Maybe her boyfriend was staring at me or something and it got her triggered – I don’t know.”

The new mother, who gave birth to son Suede in December 2022, said the woman’s abrupt confrontation left her feeling “frozen”.

Kylen Suttner was doing chestpresses when the fellow gym-goer approached her. Picture: SWNS

Suttner caught the ‘weird’ interaction on camera. Picture: SWNS

“It didn’t make me feel sad, really,” the fitness trainer – who has over 98,000 followers on Instagram – recalled. “I was just beating myself up for not standing up for myself more.”

Suttner has been working out five days a week for two years and is currently engaged in a fitness challenge that will see her at the gym for 75 days consecutively.

The 21-year-old fitness trainer was shamed for her crop top. Picture: Kylen Suttner/SWNS

‘It didn’t make me feel sad, really. I was just beating myself up for not standing up for myself more.’ Picture: Kylen Suttner/SWNS

“I’ve always liked fitness a lot and I saw other girls starting little Instagram pages for fitness content and I just one day was like, ‘You know what, I’m gonna do it’ not really thinking anything of it,” she explained.

“Then it blew up, I started taking money from it, and I was like, ‘Oh, this can actually be my job’.”

Suttner said she refuses to let the woman’s comments stop her from going to the gym. Picture: Kylen Suttner/SWNS

Despite the clothing complaint, Suttner refuses to let the critics stop her from wearing what she wants to work out.

“I usually show way more,” she admitted, adding that it’s not going to stop her from doing what she loves.

“I would never let something like that stop me from going to the gym or wearing what I want.”