Single Mom Says an MRI Technician Asked What Brand Her Workout Set Was, Then Told Her Lululemon Would Have to Come Off Completely While Her Amazon Leggings Could Stay On

“Excuse me, ma’am, what brand are you wearing?” According to the creator behind the TikTok account @rebuildingwithzaina, that was what an MRI technician asked her when she arrived for a scan she had scheduled for that morning.

She recounts the exchange from the front seat of a car, in a navy top and large black framed glasses, in a video posted on September 24, 2026. Her first reply to the technician, she says, was a question of her own: “Why does it matter?”

His answer, as she tells it: “Yes, it matters, because if it’s Lulu, you have to strip everything out. But if it’s another brand, you can just remove the top and keep the bottom.” Her caption names the brand in full, Lululemon, and calls what she had on her “fitness set.”

It was not that brand. “Sir, this is not Lulu,” she says she told him, adding that she had bought the set off Amazon. Then she pushed for the reason one label would mean undressing completely and another would not. “He told me because Lulu’s material is not allowed in there,” she says.

That left her with a question she could not answer on the spot: “I don’t even know what material I’m wearing.” She passes on the technician’s rule exactly as she heard it and does not say what it is about the fabric that matters.

“Please Kindly Let Me Strip Everything”

The conversation rattled her enough, she says, that she asked to go further than she was being told to. “I’m a single mother,” she recalls telling the technician. “Please kindly let me strip everything and go there.”

He laughed, by her account, and gave her the same instruction again: “No, ma’am, just take off the top. Keep the leggings on and just take off your jewelry.”

The jewelry part was what she had come expecting. She says she has always known that earrings, chains and the like come off before a scan. The clothing part was new to her. “It scared me,” she says. “Did y’all know that when you go for MRI, you have to have the right clothes on?”

Her caption says she went in “thinking the hardest part would be the MRI itself,” and sums up the lesson as “there are things nobody tells you before an MRI.” She says in the video that this was the day she learned it, and the caption closes by asking, “Did y’all know about this, or am I late to the party?”

What to Sort Out About Your Clothes Before an MRI Appointment

Ask the office first. When you book, or when the reminder call comes, put her question to them directly: does it matter what I wear, and can I keep leggings or a workout set on? If you own the brand her technician named, ask about it by name.

Know what you have on. She could not tell the technician what her Amazon set was made of. Read the tag at home and take a photo of it, so that “what brand” and “what material” both have an answer.

Expect the top to come off either way. Even with a brand the technician accepted, she was told to remove her top and keep only the leggings. Dress so that is quick, and ask what you will be given to wear instead.

Leave the jewelry at home. Earrings and chains were the one thing she already knew had to come off.

If the answer at the door worries you, say so. She asked why, twice, and then asked to remove everything. The technician told her she did not need to.