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

Progress takes place outside the comfort zone — but it doesn’t mean people should be made to feel uncomfortable while doing so.

Kylen Suttner, 21, was doing chest presses at the gym when she was approached by a woman who questioned her athletic attire, allegedly telling the young mom her light blue crop top wasn’t “respectful,” and “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,” she guessed.

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

“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.

“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.’ ”

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.”