Plus-size model wins payout from Qatar Airways after ‘fat monster’ treatment

Plus-size model wins payout from Qatar Airways after ‘fat monster’ treatment

A plus-sized model will receive thousands of pounds worth of therapy, paid for by Qatar airways, after she claimed staff denied her flight because they thought she was a “fat monster”.

Juliana Nehme, 38, from Brazil, was set to fly from Beirut, Lebanon to Doha but was denied from boarding unless she bought a first class ticket, she said. The woman ended up staying with her mother in Lebanon where she had been enjoying a holiday.

In San Paolo Brazil, a court judge ordered the company to pay for Ms Nehme to have psychotherapy to help her deal with the stress of the ordeal.

They declared her treatment has to include “a weekly therapy session worth $78 for a period of at least one year, totalling $3718 to be deposited in the plaintiff’s bank account”.

In an Instagram video post to her 167,000 followers at the time, she said: “They are denying my right to travel … I’m desperate, help me, they don’t want me to board because I’m fat.” “What a shame for a company like Qatar to allow this type of discrimination against people! I’m fat, but I’m just like everyone else!”

San Paolo’s Judge Carvalho said the therapy would help with “granting