I'm bigger now, but I used to be skinny, and got the "Oh you look like you never eat" stereotype, even though I ate a LOT! As well as the "ewww...your hips stick out...have you been sick?" I was just a very active young woman, not sick! Now I get the "Oh, look at these pictures when you were thin and pretty." WHAT? Just because I am bigger now, doesn't make me not pretty. Even now, I hear bigger women say terrible things about women who are thinner. Most recently, "People ignore you when you're fat, but they're nice to skinny girls. Why is that? I hate skinny girls for that." I told her when *I* was skinny, I was ignored a lot, but now that I'm bigger, people talk to me. HOWEVER, the reason people ignored me then and talk to me now is my PERSONALITY, not my WEIGHT.
However, magazines definately go too far with "perfection." Perfect teeth, perfect skin, perfect age, perfect perceived weight...
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I'm bigger now, but I used to be skinny, and got the "Oh you look like you never eat" stereotype, even though I ate a LOT! As well as the "ewww...your hips stick out...have you been sick?" I was just a very active young woman, not sick! Now I get the "Oh, look at these pictures when you were thin and pretty." WHAT? Just because I am bigger now, doesn't make me not pretty. Even now, I hear bigger women say terrible things about women who are thinner. Most recently, "People ignore you when you're fat, but they're nice to skinny girls. Why is that? I hate skinny girls for that." I told her when *I* was skinny, I was ignored a lot, but now that I'm bigger, people talk to me. HOWEVER, the reason people ignored me then and talk to me now is my PERSONALITY, not my WEIGHT.
However, magazines definately go too far with "perfection." Perfect teeth, perfect skin, perfect age, perfect perceived weight...