She Got Kidnapped Walking Home From A Party And It Improved Her Body Image

When TikToker McKenna Moore (@hahamckenna) was 20 years old, she was kidnapped, and the experience actually helped improve her body image.

At the time, she was at a frat party, and one of her friends took it upon themselves, without being asked, to approach her crush and find out if he liked her. The answer was devastating.

As soon as she walked into the party, her friend ran up to her and told her that her crush said he would "have to black out" in order to hook up with her.

What little was left of McKenna's self-esteem plummeted even further, and she left the party in tears.

She decided to walk home, spiraling in self-loathing, thinking that she was too fat and ugly for anyone to want to kidnap her off the streets.

In her mind, she wasn't desirable enough to be noticed. However, that belief was soon shattered. On her walk home, a car pulled up next to her, and the driver demanded that she get in.

So, he kidnapped her for a brief time and tried to force her into his house. But thankfully, McKenna managed to run away and escape without physical injury.

She probably would've been more upset about being kidnapped if it hadn't been for the incident at the party earlier that night. Her self-esteem was so low that the experience mostly served as proof that she wasn't invisible after all.

"Honestly, when I ran home, I was feeling neutral about it, like it's a big bummer, the whole kidnapping of it all, but I'm cute enough to get stolen off the street," said McKenna.

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"That certainly says something about the state of the world where the only way a fat girl can feel good about herself is to get truly stolen."

In the comments section, many TikTok users were quick to chime in about how cruel her friend had been. Others reflected on how trauma and validation can intersect in confusing ways. One even shared a similar story.

"A literal kidnapper tried to get you, and somehow your 'friend' is still the biggest villain in the story for me," pointed out one user.

"It's like a double negative. The two traumas canceled each other out, lol," commented another.

"I was abducted off the beach by two men and escaped when I was a teen. Nobody could tell me nothing," added a third.

Overall, McKenna's experience highlights how brutal society's beauty standards can be, especially when it comes to women's bodies. It just goes to show how deeply body image issues can warp self-worth to the point where even surviving something terrifying becomes twisted into validation. When self-worth is measured by attention, it can get really dangerous.