Ruby Gettinger
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"The first time I went on a plane I was close to 700 lbs. and I had no idea how small the seats were," says Gettinger. "The man sitting next to me was not happy at all! I felt so bad!"
Gettinger, who stars on the Style Network's Ruby, has lost nearly 400 lbs. since that flight, but flying still isn't easy, she tells PEOPLE. "After that experience, I never flew without a friend to sit next to me, or I would buy two seats."
She doesn't know all the details of director Smith's recent removal from a Southwest Airlines flight, but the Savannah, Georgia, resident says she can imagine.
"This kind of stuff should be taken care of in private before someone like me or Kevin enters a plane," she says. "We need to remember that we may have different shells, but we are still the same on the inside."
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