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" On April 13, Fox News posted a story about a 19-year-old girl who claimed that she was not allowed to sit in the front-row at an American Idol taping because of her weight. The show&amp;#039;s production company argued that the allegations were untrue, but Ashley Kauffman stood by her initial statement. She had gone to the taping with her school dance team, but because there were six of them, they had to split up, in the audience. Ashley was part of the group that was seated in the fifth row of the floor section instead of the front-row, although the seats were not bad at all. In fact, they were in the same row as one of judge Steven Tyler&amp;#039;s VIP guests. But all of that doesn&amp;#039;t matter when you consider Ashley&amp;#039;s side of the story: that a male studio employee had asked her to move back because, &amp;quot;she was fat and couldn&amp;#039;t sit up front with the &amp;#039;skinny girls.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Those kinds of words are hurtful and mean, and can have a real impact on a person&amp;#039;s ability to maintain body peace. So for the sake of Ashley, and every other girl who&amp;#039;s ever been told she can&amp;#039;t do what she wants to because of the way she looks (remember Ashley Fink&amp;#039;s inspirational story), don&amp;#039;t forget to make a body peace oath with yourself and encourage your friends to do the same! One by one, we can prove that every girl, of every shape, has a place in this world. And that place should be whatever you want it to be! Sound off on Ashley&amp;#039;s Idol story, and tell us why you love your body in the comments below! \u2014Chelsea Tirrell, Seventeen Features Intern "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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