In 2012, a photo of Jennifer Knapp Wilkinson falling from a stroller went viral, with many mocking her weight. But behind the image was a woman living with a painful spinal disease, limited mobility, obesity, and depression. That day, she was only trying to buy juice for her husband when the stroller slipped. Wilkinson later spoke out, asking not for pity but for compassion: “I’m a person—please treat me as such.”
