'Women who 重さを計る 300lbs should not wear yoga pants!' Florida mom is sent HATE MAIL by a stranger who 団体／死体-shamed her just for wearing leggings

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When a Florida mom received a cruel piece of hate mail through her postbox, she was left feeling heartbroken and 混乱させるd.?

Kelly Markland, 36, from Port Orange, had just come home from a dinner with her family when she stopped to go through her mail. の中で the letters, she 設立する an envelope with her 指名する and 演説（する）／住所 handwritten on the 前線. 最初, she thought it was just an extra-早期に Christmas card.

But there were no season's greetings to be 設立する inside the letter. Instead there was enclosed an image of a meme featuring Will Ferrell's character Ron Burgandy and an photo of an unknown 加える-size woman in leggings bending over in a 蓄える／店.

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的d: Port Orange, Florida, mom Kelly Markland, 36, recently received hate mail from a cruel いじめ（る） 団体／死体-shaming her

A bad time: She was just coming home from celebrating her daughter's birthday when she 設立する a handwritten letter の中で her mail

Hurtful: The 匿名の／不明の 公式文書，認める 含む／封じ込めるd this meme featuring Will Ferrell's Ron Burgundy and an image of an unknown woman

'Your pants say yoga but your butt says McDonald’s,' read the caption on the meme.

As if that weren't enough to get across the troll's cruel 意向s, the image was …を伴ってd by a handwritten 公式文書，認める reading: 'Women who 重さを計る 300 続けざまに猛撃するs should not wear yoga pants!!'?

The envelope had no return 演説（する）／住所, but was 直接／まっすぐに 演説（する）／住所d to Kelley, who had only recently taken to wearing bold and 有望な colored leggings as a bit of fun for herself and for the kids she 作品 with as a 代用品，人 teacher.

At first, Kelley tells Daily Mail Online, she had 'no reaction' to receiving the horrific 公式文書，認める, but soon she felt herself 'shaking inside'.?

'I didn't know what to say. I took it to my husband and he didn't know what to say either,' she says. 'He 現実に started to crumple it up, but I grabbed it away from him.'?

Personal: Aside from the meme, there was also a handwritten 公式文書，認める telling Kelley that she is '300 続けざまに猛撃するs' and 'should not wear yoga pants'

Unsettling: The letter had no return 演説（する）／住所 or 署名, but was 演説（する）／住所d 直接／まっすぐに to Kelley

Kelley snapped photos of the 不快な／攻撃 公式文書，認める and the meme, 同様に as of the envelope 耐えるing her 指名する, and 地位，任命するd them to Facebook.

'So, I （機の）カム home from celebrating a fun birthday dinner for Mia and we were all so happy! I open my mail to find this envelope with a silly picture (not me in that picture BTW) and a 公式文書，認める. 明らかに, I 重さを計る 300 続けざまに猛撃するs and I shouldn't wear leggings anymore,' she wrote.

'Anyone who knows me, knows that I care deeper and stronger t han many. I am a 極度の慎重さを要する woman and I despise cruelty に向かって others. At 36 years old, I am STILL 存在 made fun of. Whoever sent this, be an adult and tell me who you are. JUST TELL ME!!!'

Kelley says that 地位，任命するing the message to the social マスコミ 場所／位置 began as 'just venting'.?

'I was disgusted and also becoming depressed,' she explains. 'I had just come from celebrating my daughter’s birthday felt very deflated. I started crying. I guess I 地位，任命するd it thinking maybe the person would see it and 収容する／認める it was them.'

The next day, feeling touched by the 圧倒的に 肯定的な 返答 she received, Kelley 演説（する）／住所d her friends and 信奉者s online with a ビデオ where she 述べるd how the family were 扱うing the hate mail 出来事/事件 together.?

Finding strength: Kelley decided to broadcast the 侮辱 online to show her いじめ（る） that 'You did not 勝利，勝つ'

Playing up: After her story took off, 地元の photographers Love and Limes partnered with leggings brand?LulaRoe to do a 解放する／自由な photo shoot with Kelley?

'The ビデオ started getting more and more 攻撃する，衝突するs, and suddenly people from all over were messaging me - from Australia, Hawaii and everywhere around the country.

'Many have had 類似の things happening to them. I don’t know about anyone having something mailed to them, but they could definitely relate to that feeling.'

Soon enough, it was （疑いを）晴らす that Kelley had inadvertently 誘発するd a movement. Women were coming out in droves to 株 their own stories of 団体／死体-shaming and 地位，任命するing images of themselves 冒険的な brightly-colored leggings. ?

地元の photographer Love and Limes and LulaRoe leggings company even 申し込む／申し出d h er a 解放する／自由な photo shoot to show her at her beautiful and most 確信して best.?

She has even been sent 多重の pairs of leggings, each more flamboyant than the last, 含むing one 特に over-the-最高の，を越す 始める，決める with 'an 80s vibe', which she has dubbed her '声明 leggings'.

'You tell me not to wear leggings anymore and I'm going to go 権利 out and find the brightest, boldest ones that I can!' she says.

扱うing it: Kelley and her husband have decided to use the 出来事/事件 as a teachable moment for their children

Making a 声明: Kelley says that the jibe has 簡単に made her want to wear brighter, bolder leggings

The 状況／情勢 has also given Kelley and her husband a teachable moment for their children.?

'I would be lying if I said it didn’t 傷つける like heck, but it was good for my eight-year-old daughter to see me not letting it break me,' she says. 'We want to teach the kids that people will try to 傷つける you, but it's how you 扱う it that 事柄s.'

As for the いじめ（る） who 地位，任命するd her the letter, Kelley doesn't know if it was a person who she may be friends with on Facebook or if it was someone at her kids' school, but she says she hopes the person has seen her 地位，任命するs.

In fact, she has even thanked the person to tried so hard to 傷つける her, 説 that she has come out the other 味方する 'a much better person'.?

'I want them to see it as me 説: "You didn’t 勝利，勝つ. This didn’t do what you meant it to do,"' she says. 'I hope they realize that telling someone they shouldn’t wear something, 推定する／予想するing them to 洞穴 and stop, that it has had the opposite 影響. I have more 信用／信任 than ever to speak out.'?