Penny writes:

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.

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.