I'm a firm believer that shaming anyone for their appearance is down right wrong. It shouldn't matter whether you're fat, skinny, big or small. People don't need their imperfections pointed out to them. We all look in the mirror, we all see the things we hate about ourselves and yet everyone else feels the need to tell us that we should be ashamed of ourselves. But should we? Should we really be ashamed of our bodies? As an individual, you've probably guess that I am indeed ashamed of my body, but I really don't believe that other people should shame me for it. How does my body affect their lives? It really doesn't, it's none of their business.
When discussing this issue with other people, they say that all body types are picked on by people; fat people comment on skinny people, skinny people comment on fat people. While this is true, the media never really focuses on how being under weight is just as dangerous as being overweight. We constantly see drastically underweight women on the catwalk, flaunting clothes that would split at the seems if I so much as looked at them, and yet, rather than consider these women as unhealthy, we aspire to be like them, we wish we had that gap between our legs, and defined ribs and hip bones. And then there are 'plus size' models. Why can't they just be models? Why do we have to segregate them as 'plus size'? It sickens me that us bigger people are considered to be a total different species.
Just my two cents I guess....
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