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Melissa McCarthy Discusses Designing Clothing Line, Body Shaming

Los Angeles, CA (CBS Sacramento)-- Melissa McCarthy recently ventured out to design a clothing line for women of all sizes.

McCarthy was recently promoting her holiday collection Seven7 in L.A. and told E!, "I don't believe in kind of sectioning and segregating people in anything. I think most women in the U.S. are a 14. I think like 72 percent of women are a 14. So I think it's a little insane if you're in this business to tell your biggest section of clientele that you don't want their business."

Her line fits women from size 4 to 28. McCarthy admitted that she is concerned about the effect "shaming and bullying" have on children as well as young people.

"You're cutting down and devaluing a woman based on her looks and that's not going to put anything good in the world. It doesn't make women feel good. I have two daughters and I think, 'My, god—every time they see one of these things it's supposed to be a joke [but] it just chips away and chips away and chips away,'" she said.

While designing the line, McCarthy said her husband has been nothing but supportive and, "He's very patient because we can be in the middle of a conversation and if I trail off, I'm like, 'Should be a raglan sleeve!' He's like, 'It's not what we're talking about. We weren't talking about a sleeve. Just go draw it and then come back and we'll finish talking about our children's education.'"

She expects her line will improve over the next couple of years and says she loves to talk to consumers.

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