A morning news anchor in Missouri is going viral for her classy response to social media comments about her body.
Having the public comment on your body, unless you’re a model, is usually a less-than-welcome conversation, but Ozark’s First anchor Carissa Codel found a clever way to address the things she was seeing on social media. She posted a video of herself reading the comments in her broadcaster’s voice, shaming those who felt the need to make them in the first place.
Watch:
— Carissa Codel (@CarissaCodelTV) November 10, 2025
Another video:
The third white chick is probably in my top 5 fav comments lol pic.twitter.com/Mzb6xLsykB
— Carissa Codel (@CarissaCodelTV) December 5, 2025
A third:
Let’s read some comments together! #comments #viewers #reels #ragebait pic.twitter.com/JhzZI0MlMW
— Carissa Codel (@CarissaCodelTV) October 21, 2025
Some of the uncouth comments include:
He parents gotta be beavers. Cause she’s built like damnnnnnnnnnn
Thighsman Trophy Winter
Shawty obese
ADVERTISEMENTY’all need to stop bullying fairy godmother from Shrek
Guuuuurl, you look like you was raised on a donkey farm
She looks like the third white chick
Now that fills a frame
Built for breeding
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It was clear she was having fun making the videos mocking the kind of person who would leave such gross comments for no real reason, and she told The New York Post that she isn’t really bothered by them.
“It doesn’t affect me at all. I think that they’re hilarious,” Codel, who is 5’3” and 180 pounds, said. “I don’t put up the extremely mean ones, but I like the insults that are very creative. My family is very thick-skinned, I’ve never been bothered by a lot of that.”
She also pointed out that she’s actually lost 55lbs within the last three years, meaning the comments would have likely been a lot meaner back then.
“I find it so funny, like, ‘Oh you think I’m big now, you should have seen me back then,’” she said. “I know who I am, and I know what I look like.”
X users had a lot to say:
As someone who has had a lot of unwarranted comments, you took this one on the chin about as well as anyone could have lol.
— Malcolm FleX (@MalcolmFlex) December 5, 2025
You rock Carissa, please don’t let the hate get to you. You seem like a really fun person.
— Josef (@josefeagon) December 6, 2025
When your producer yelled “OOH NOO!”, my spirit left my body – great stuff!
— Big Mike on KVI (@MikeOnKVI) December 5, 2025
You are a class act Carissa. With a great sense of humor. ❤️💪🏼🔥
— Gulf Coast Armory (@gcarmory) December 7, 2025
You are truly wonderful human being! Don’t change a thing!
— Elchingarito (@Elchingarito1) December 6, 2025
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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