--- title: Forever 21 Diet Bars: Customers Call Out Clothing Company description: Forever 21 is being put on blast for including diet bars in its online orders for women's clothing. canonical: https://time.com/5633820/forever-21-diet-bars/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-24T18:53:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:40.360Z og:title: Customers Slam Forever 21 for Including Diet Bars in Their Orders og:description: "What are you trying to tell me Forever 21?" og:url: https://time.com/5633820/forever-21-diet-bars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte92d150c9a03712a/698a0061656a3f4b56bd8a13/forever-21-diet-bar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4560 og:image:height: 2565 og:image:alt: Forever 21 Opening at Zlote Tarasy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Customers Slam Forever 21 for Including Diet Bars in Their Orders twitter:description: "What are you trying to tell me Forever 21?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte92d150c9a03712a/698a0061656a3f4b56bd8a13/forever-21-diet-bar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Customers Slam Forever 21 for Including Diet Bars in Their Online Clothing Orders > Sponsored content. 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Gallo Images—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 24, 2019 6:53 PM UTC After coming under fire for [a](https://time.com/5484725/forever-21-white-model-black-panther-wakanda-sweater/)[dvertising a _Black Panther_\-inspired sweater using a white model](https://time.com/5484725/forever-21-white-model-black-panther-wakanda-sweater/) last December, Forever 21 has been put on blast for including diet bars in its online orders for [women’s clothing](https://time.com/how-to-fix-vanity-sizing/). A number of customers have taken to Twitter in the past week to slam Forever 21 for sending free Atkins bars in online orders — specifically, in plus-size orders. “I went from a size 24 to 18, still a plus size girl, so I ordered jeans from [@Forever21](https://twitter.com/Forever21),” one customer captioned a photo of the diet bar. “Opened the package, when I looked inside I see this Atkins bar. What are you trying to tell me Forever 21, I’m FAT, LOSE WEIGHT? do you give these to NON-PLUS SIZE WOMEN as well?” > [](https://twitter.com/MissGirlGames/status/1152327957051891712) Another customer spoke out against the triggering nature of sending diet bars to someone who has recovered from an eating disorder. “So apparently [@Forever21](https://twitter.com/Forever21) is sending out Atkins bars with their orders,” she tweeted. “As someone who recovered from an \[eating disorder\], I’m finding this pretty distasteful.” > [](https://twitter.com/acrueltyfreeme/status/1153838528096329728) In a statement obtained by [Jezebel](https://jezebel.com/forever-21-is-sending-diet-bars-with-plus-size-orders-1836629966), the clothing retailer has since apologized for “any offense” the promotion caused and said the bars were included in orders across all sizes, not just plus-size. “From time to time, Forever 21 surprises our customers with free test products from third parties in their e-commerce orders” a Forever 21 spokesperson said in the statement. “The freebie items in question were included in all online orders, across all sizes and categories, for a limited time and have since been removed. This was an oversight on our part and we sincerely apologize for any offense this may have caused to our customers, as this was not our intention in any way.” See some other reactions to the diet bar controversy below. > [](https://twitter.com/bronze%5FbombSHEL/status/1153726488568586242) > [](https://twitter.com/jessemarisaelao/status/1152343151215927296) > [](https://twitter.com/taylorndean/status/1153716392044220416) > [](https://twitter.com/AngryBlackLady/status/1153851109703917568) > [](https://twitter.com/MerQueenJude/status/1153791912618254337) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5633820/forever-21-diet-bars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5633820/forever-21-diet-bars/"},"headline":"Customers Slam Forever 21 for Including Diet Bars in Their Online Clothing Orders","datePublished":"2019-07-24T18:53:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:40.360Z","description":"\"What are you trying to tell me Forever 21?\"","url":"https://time.com/5633820/forever-21-diet-bars/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","controversy","Companies","onetime","Business"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte92d150c9a03712a/698a0061656a3f4b56bd8a13/forever-21-diet-bar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte92d150c9a03712a/698a0061656a3f4b56bd8a13/forever-21-diet-bar.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Forever 21 Opening at Zlote Tarasy","caption":"Forever 21 Opening at Zlote Tarasy","creditText":"Gallo Images—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5633820/forever-21-diet-bars/","name":"Customers Slam Forever 21 for Including Diet Bars in Their Online Clothing Orders"}}]}] ```