Retailers Trimming Plus-Sized Options And Obese Women Can’t Stop Complaining

(Photo by Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for TORRID)

Clothing stores are cutting down on their plus-size inventory, thanks in part to Ozempic and other GLP-1s. Some overweight women are none too pleased at the development.

“I see the direction of skinny culture,” Ann Lindsay, a “plus-sized 41-year-old,” told CNN. “Brands are just falling right in line with what they think people want.” (RELATED: Fat Influencer Looked In The Mirror, Didn’t Like What She Was Selling)

Lindsay “finds many stores’ plus-size offerings too matronly or too expensive,” according to CNN. 

“(GLP-1s are) just an excuse for retailers to continue to push fat people out of the space and just restrict options and continue to mass produce certain sizes of clothing,” fat fashion influencer Kimmy Garris told CNN.

Material abundance produces the most absurdly entitled individuals. Women with the resources to eat themselves into needing a separate retail category have the temerity to complain about their options. 

CNN, citing data from retail intelligence firm EDITED, reports “[e]xtended sizes for women’s apparel on Target’s website fell 37% from March 2025 to March 2026, with a 30% downturn in just the past six months[.]” Extended sizing refers to plus-sized clothing, typically beginning around a woman’s size 14 or 16. Extended sizes at Old Navy fell by 12% this year as compared to last year, CNN continues. 

CHICAGO, IL – APRIL 08: Store employees attend the grand opening of the TORRID flagship store on Chicago’s State Street on April 8, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for Torrid)

Torrid, an American retail chain specializing in plus-size clothing, said it would close about 180 of its 630 retail stores in June 2025, according to eMarketer. The company reportedly said 70% of its customers shop online. (RELATED: Jillian Michaels Faces Off With 4 Body Positivity Activists Who Object To Her Obesity Claim)

So-called “body positivity” ascended in the late 2010s, along with the other grievance movements (Black Lives Matter, LGBTQIA+ lobbying, etc.) The public grew somewhat fatigued with ostentatious displays of “allyship” and left-wing activism which may have contributed to the body positivity movement’s collapse. But Ozempic was the fatal blow. Regardless of what they say, most fat people do not really like being fat. It just took the pharmaceutical industry to confirm that fact. 

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