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		</div><h6><span style="color:#1a0202;">&#8216;They told me to go jump off a bridge and kill myself&#8217;</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0202;">Plus-size model Rosie Mercado, who shed 240LBS reveals she&#8217;s been sent DEATH THREATS from &#8216;fat activists&#8217; who are angry about her weight loss </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0202;"><strong>The mother-of-three from Las Vegas has since more than halved her body weight after being told by a flight attendant to buy herself a second seat because of her size</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0202;"><strong>The 36-year-old went down from <strong>170lbs down from a peak of 410lbs,</strong> dropping from dress size 34 to 12/14</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0202;"><strong>Rosie said she was targeted by &#8216;fat activists&#8217; who sent her hateful messages</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1a0202;"><strong>She does not &#8216;miss anything&#8217; about weighing 410lbs and loves her new body</strong></span></h6>
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<h6><strong>Rosie reveals she has been trolled since weight loss in TMZ interview</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong>Happy Rosie happy with her weight loss</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Plus-size model Rosie Mercado shed 240lbs and is very happy with her new &#8216;self&#8217;. Sadly though she has been was targeted by &#8216;fat activists&#8217; who told her to kill herself after her dramatic weight loss.<br />
Following a dramatic weight loss which saw the vivacious Rosie go from a dress size 34 to 12/14, said she does not &#8216;miss anything&#8217; about being 410lbs while speaking about the hate mail she has received hate directed at her transformed body.<br />
In a recent interview with TMZ, 36-year-old Rosie revealed trolls told her to &#8216;jump off a bridge and kill myself&#8217; by people who objected to her weight loss.</p>
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<h6 class="share-pictures-overlay"><strong>Always upbeat. Plus-size model Rosie Mercado, before her weight loss </strong></h6>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><strong>Plus-size model Rosie Mercado, sheds the pounds at a zumba session</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><strong>A happy Rosie does not miss the 240lbs she has shed along the way</strong></h6>
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<p class="imageCaption">Speaking about public reaction to her transformation,the mother of three from Las Vegas said she was told &#8216;to go jump off a bridge and kill myself&#8217;</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;I got hate mail&#8230;Not so much from the other models, just fans that hated on me. They told me to go jump off a bridge and kill myself for losing weight.<br />
&#8216;Fat activists, there you go. Yeah fat activists, they just hated the thought I was really public about my weight loss and I was losing weight,&#8217; she said.<br />
While Rosie, who now weighs 170lbs, &#8216;loves&#8217; her slimmer physique and the &#8216;freedom&#8217; it has given her, she said some people reacted negatively to it.<br />
She said: &#8216;Because I guess everybody loves to be happy in their own weight. Some people love being overweight, some people don&#8217;t.</p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong>Rosie and her son at a baseball game</strong></h6>
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<h6><strong>Rosie show cases her new body (top) and (below)</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="splitRight"><strong> The freedom of exercising, living healthy and doing things she last did over 10 years ago</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="share-pictures-overlay"><strong>Rosie post-weight loss dropped from a size 34 (top) to a size 12/14 (Below). She now weighs 170lbs, down from 410lbs</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;I think it&#8217;s a personal choice and you&#8217;ve just got to take it, there&#8217;s good and bad that comes with any life choice and changes so you know what?<br />
&#8216;You&#8217;ve just got to let it go and not pay attention to the negative remarks.&#8217;<br />
Rosie said has been criticized for being &#8216;authentic and open&#8217; about the changes to her body, including her subsequent tummy tuck and skin removal.<br />
Rosie who is still plus-size, despite losing almost half her former body weight said of her transformed body, &#8216;I love it.&#8217;</p>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><strong>Rosie, the plus-size model felt she had to make a change after a flight attendant asked her to buy a second seat</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong>Rosie, still a plus-size, but happy and comfortable in her new skin</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="ima-ad-container"><strong>Going from plus-size to &#8216;hot, hot,hot&#8217;</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="ima-ad-container"><strong>The model, doing more of she does, living in front of the camera</strong></h6>
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<div class="ima-ad-container"> Stating that her critics erroneously associated weight-loss with &#8216;size zero&#8217; but for her it has represented &#8216;freedom&#8217;. She added: &#8216;Diet for me really equaled a lifestyle change, it equaled freedom, it didn&#8217;t equal a size.</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;It equaled to having freedom of choice, getting on a roller coaster, going zip lining and just having fun.&#8217;<br />
Rosie in past interviews revealed she was first motivated to lose weight after she was stung by a flight attendant telling her she needed to buy an extra plane seat because she was too big for one. <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-84593" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/rosie-mercado-before6.jpg" alt="rosie-mercado-before6" width="1348" height="1080" /></p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong>Rosie said she was targeted by &#8216;fat activists&#8217; who seem rather upset she dared to &#8216;re-invent&#8217; herself</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong>Rosie says she has learnt to be &#8216;humble, how to treat people, never judge a book by its cover and persistence.&#8217; </strong><strong> </strong></h6>
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<h6><strong>Rosie said for her weight-loss has represented &#8216;freedom&#8217;</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Rosie said she decided to live healthy &#8211; overhaul her diet and start doing exercise and later got a gastric sleeve. She followed a low carbohydrate and low dairy diet and worked out six days a week.<br />
Although much happier now, she is &#8216;grateful&#8217; that she experienced life at 410lbs because it taught her &#8216;a lot of lessons,&#8217;She said. It taught her to be &#8216;humble, how to treat people, never judge a book by its cover and persistence.&#8217;</p>
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Trolled for losing weight: Plus-size model Rosie Mercado reveals she was sent death threats by fat activists after shedding 240 lbs
