The woman, a petite 5-foot-4, 110 pounds ...

For what it's worth, the average height for women in the U.S. is 5 feet 4
inches, so she's not petite.

... because the overweight passenger in question was only 14 and
they were trying to spare the teen embarrassment.

What kind of ticket did the teen have? The passenger bumped was
flying standby. I'm guessing that you can't get child-flying-alone
standby tickets. The teen might have been late for a number of
reasons not his fault, such as a connecting flight being late, or
the airline screwed up in getting him to the connecting flight on
time.

Sparing the teen embarrassment will result in her weighing about three times
as much when she's 35, just before she dies of diabetic complications and
cardiovascular disease.

Does it also give him a sex-change operation? The teen in question was
14 and *male*. It's also unclear that much of the embarrassment had
anything to do with his weight.