Recently, a news anchor in La Crosse, Wisconsin is receiving an out-pouring of support after she responded to a viewer who suggested she was overweight and sets a bad example for others.

Jennifer Livingston, an anchor-reporter at WKBT-TV received an email last week from a viewer criticizing her for her size and appearance. 

The email read, in part, "Obesity is one of the worst choices a person can make and one of the most dangerous habits to maintain.  leave you this note hoping that you'll reconsider your responsibility as a local public personality to present and promote a healthy lifestyle."

Instead of passing it off as part of the job, Livingston decided to respond to that viewer in a four-minute on air-segment

Here is some of her response: (See the entire video here)

"The truth is I am overweight.  You could call me fat.  And yes, even obese on a doctor's chart.  But to the person who wrote me that letter, do you think I don't know that? That your cruel words are pointing out something I don't see?  You don't know me.  Now I am a grown woman...And lucky for me, I have a very thick skin, literally as that email pointed out, and otherwise.  And that man's words mean nothing to me.  But what really angers me about this, there are children who don't know better.  Who get emails as critical as the one I received or in many cases even worse, each and every day.  The Internet has become a weapon. Our schools a battleground. And this behavior is learned.  It is passed down from people like the man who wrote me that email."

The response has received national attention.  She has received thousands of comments in support of how she handled the situation and the message she conveyed.

In the video attached to this story, we have some of your responses to this situation.