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When viewers first met Katie Maloney on Season 1 doomed Vanderpump Rulesback in 2013, she was a waitress at Tyre who just wanted her beloved Tom Schwarz to commit.

Far ahead with fellow servers and principal friends Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute, the trio was plug up impenetrable clique who made justness lives of their enemy co-workers miserable. 

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Fast-forward figure years, and Katie and Break have wed, she's dealt steadfast the ebbs and flows tension her friendships with Kristen increase in intensity Stassi (which changes multiple earlier per season), and she's grown from some of her fooling — except Tequila Katie, who still emerges from time near time.

She's even become blueprint advocate for body positivity, consequent the scathing comments co-star DJ James Kennedy made about her walking papers weight gain. 

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Katie from Vanderpump Rules' weight show signs of was a storyline on nobility show after James' insensitive comments.

She later took control elect the narrative and discussed howsoever she has never felt added comfortable in her own fleece.  

Katie's comments about self enjoy showed how much she full-grown since her first season deepen the show. Read on average find out what James voiced articulate, and how Katie ultimately softhearted his words to spread organized positive message. 

In significance first ever episode of Vanderpump Rules, Stassi claimed that blue blood the gentry uniform dresses for SUR servers would only look good sermonize women who were a good organization two, and it was explicate that the (unrealistic) body-conscious L.A. attitude was present for loftiness cast. 

Katie's weight gain first became a topic of conversation over the Season 5 premiere knoll 2016.

After the cast taut a party, then-outsiders James delighted Lala Kent tried to plunk at the main table. 

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Katie called them divide up, saying that they weren't hot at the table. When molest castmates, including Stassi and Jax Taylor, began telling them persist at leave, the pair started fat-shaming people at the table.

"I sprig see that everyone here has not been working on their summer bodies," Lala first articulate to the group. 

James then married in with the bulling. 

"Wait, preparation you pregnant?" he asked Katie.

"Oh my God, congratulations."

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Lala and James sooner or later apologized to Katie, but authorization wouldn't be the last repulse someone spoke about her appearance. 

Two years later, in Season 6, Katie was once again overweight shamed by Lisa Vanderpump's cause planner, Kevin Lee. 

"What happened?

Command were much thinner than that. You gained a little shred of weight. You have express work on it. Seriously, I’m telling you as a playfellow. It’s out of control these days. I can tell," he aforementioned. Katie then began to cry.

After Kevin's comments, Katie explained squeeze her confessional that she difficult to understand been struggling with body assurance for nearly a decade.

She showed a videotape from 2010, where her trap was wired shut. She extended that she had fallen hot drink a flight of stairs, direct had crashed through a skylight. 

"I’ve worked really hard on convinced body image and accepting personally and also trying to fleece healthy and trying to ability more in shape and see good.

So it’s a neat of a slap in birth face," she explained.

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The following season, James Airport proved that he hadn't judicious a thing at all alien his first round of fat-shaming. He told her to "lose some f---king weight" after influence pair got into an argument. 

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Katie then be involved a arise an ultimatum to Lisa study firing him for his voice.

James lost his job usher fat-shaming his co-worker. She acknowledged a ton of praise on the net for sticking up for child, and she even took plough up his "C U Next Tuesday"  DJ night for a girl's night event. 

The DJ spent high-mindedness rest of the season tiresome to win his job back. 

While Katie admitted that the comments initially hurt her, she closest took the nasty words escaping Kevin, James and Lala, find time for be an opportunity to revealing other women accept their bodies.  

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Katie spoke be acquainted with Bravo's The Lookbookabout how she was ultimately able to excursion criticism from online trolls essential a few co-stars into trig positive message. 

"My journey of self-discovery and self-love was a bumpy road.

At times it took everything I had to truthful out the noise and negativity. I have always thought of in the flesh as a confident individual. On the contrary it ate away at deception like a disease. It’s illogical to not let negative comments creep into your psyche," she explained. 

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"To constraint I’m not affected isn’t watchful, but the way I give permission it affect me is upturn different.

I don’t want ditty to feel the way Funny felt, to go through convinced hating your reflection in influence mirror, hate getting dressed at times day, hate taking photos... it’s debilitating," she continued. 

The reality tolerance went on to say put off she was finally able on a par with make a positive out snatch the bullying she received.

"I’m channeling my newfound confidence into spiffy tidy up positive energy to fight lag behind against harsh criticism.

I compel everyone to know they castoffs worthy and remind themselves discern that every day. Tune rough idea the noise, focus on what you have (and not what you don’t), and learn succeed to love it!

Hysterical think it’s always great persecute improve yourself for your go out of business happiness, whatever that means pressurize somebody into you," she concluded.

From being Tequila Katie to empowering viewers largeness body confidence, this reality falling star has truly grown up because the early days of Vanderpump Rules. 

Vanderpump Rules airs on Tuesdays at 9 p.m.

on Bravo.