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“She knows that I’m very capable of entering an elevator, so things like that are just weird and humiliating.”Įmails and a phone call to try to reach Ms. She’s actually seen me before,” she said. Gay said she still took issue with the language used by Ms. “We felt this was an important issue that was integral to understanding Roxane’s point of view in the world and helping people learn about and empathize with a perspective they may never have considered - just as she writes in her book,” the apology said.īut Ms. Gay talked about the stress of wondering whether spaces would be accommodating to her size. In its apology, Mamamia said that during the interview, Ms. And this is a logistical nightmare for her. But it’s not just that Roxane’s overweight she’s 6-foot-3, or about two meters tall. I don’t think the scale goes beyond that, quite literally. There’s obese, then there’s morbidly obese, and then there is super morbidly obese. I don’t want to say fat, so - even though she uses the word fat about herself - so I’m going to use the official medical term, super morbidly obese. “You see, Roxane Gay, well, I’m searching for the right word to use here. In the edited version of the podcast that was online on Tuesday, Ms.