--- title: Woman Fat-Shamed By Husband After Losing Close to 200 Pounds description: She told her weight loss story on 'Skin Tight' canonical: https://time.com/4216034/fat-shame-lose-weight/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-10T19:48:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:56.799Z og:title: This Woman's Husband Fat-shamed Her After She Lost 173 Pounds og:description: Even though he was supportive when she was over 400 pounds og:url: https://time.com/4216034/fat-shame-lose-weight/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Woman's Husband Fat-shamed Her After She Lost 173 Pounds twitter:description: Even though he was supportive when she was over 400 pounds twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Woman's Husband Fat-shamed Her After She Lost 173 Pounds > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Julie Mazziotta / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Julie Mazziotta / People Contributor Feb 10, 2016 7:48 PM UTC by [Julie Mazziotta / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Julie Mazziotta / People Contributor Feb 10, 2016 7:48 PM UTC Bullied [for her weight](http://www.people.com/article/writing-body-shaming-skin-removal-surgery) for years, Chantae Alexander was thrilled to finally meet someone who loved her and all of her 400-plus lbs. So Alexander was shocked when her husband started calling her ‘fat’ after she dropped close to 200 lbs. to save her health. “As I lost weight, insecurity built in my marriage,” Alexander explains in this exclusive clip from Wednesday’s episode of [_Skin Tight_](http://www.people.com/article/skin-tight-skin-removal-surgery). “My husband would say mean things, and the smaller I got, the more he would say, ‘I think you’re going to leave me.’ ” “But it wasn’t until I lost 173 lbs. that he was like, ‘You’re fat.’ But he never called me fat when I was plus-size.” Alexander, 26, knew she couldn’t keep the [negative weight](http://www.people.com/article/simone-anderson-skin-removal-surgery-194-lb-weight-loss) of her husband around. 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I had to do something, I had to make a change.” Hitting 422 lbs. was Alexander’s breaking point, and she decided to get gastric bypass surgery to finally get her [weight under control](http://www.people.com/article/skin-tight-brian-flemming-skin-removal). “Gastric bypass pushed me to workout five to six days a week, three hours a day. I was like, ‘I’m going to workout til I fall out.’ ” Over 11 months of intense exercise and strength training, Alexander dropped a whopping 222 lbs., and regained the energy to start dating again. But now, a total of 242 lbs. down, she’s embarrassed by her excess skin, and it’s stopping her from fully opening up to a new relationship. She’s ready to get [skin removal surgery](http://www.people.com/article/kaitlyn-smith-third-skin-surgery) and find the confident woman inside. Skin Tight _airs Wednesday nights at 10/9c on TLC._ _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/skin-tight-chantae-alexander-skin-removal) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4216034/fat-shame-lose-weight/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4216034/fat-shame-lose-weight/"},"headline":"This Woman's Husband Fat-shamed Her After She Lost 173 Pounds","datePublished":"2016-02-10T19:48:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:56.799Z","description":"Even though he was supportive when she was over 400 pounds","url":"https://time.com/4216034/fat-shame-lose-weight/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","viral","Body Image","Weight loss","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Julie Mazziotta / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4216034/fat-shame-lose-weight/","name":"This Woman's Husband Fat-shamed Her After She Lost 173 Pounds"}}]}] ```