IT'S OKAY TO BE THIN/FAT AS IT IS TO BE ANY ANOTHER SIZE

Hello Everyone,

All of us here are familiar with the concept of body shaming. What is body shaming? Let’s put this in simple words – when the world starts shaming your body based on its sizes and shapes, that’s body shaming.

Everyone is familiar with fat shaming i.e. people who are fat and looked at differently. But very few are familiar with thin shaming. Have we ever given a thought that even people could be shamed?

This is a personal story of mine about thin shaming.

I was born as a chubby and healthy kid but as I grew up I became a thin and a skinny kid. All I ever heard was ‘you were so chubby as a baby, what’s with you now?’ . I grew up hearing lines like – ‘your soo thin that even the air could make you fly’ , ‘you thin people are so bony and it’s pricky’ , ‘your so thin that I could carry you by one hand’ , ‘since your the thin one why don’t you squeeze yourself off in that corner’, ‘you don’t have curves’ etc.

But then someday I finally decided to look at my thin self in the mirror for the true beauty that she was. And it’s then I realized your shape doesn’t define who you are, it’s your thoughts about yourself that define who you are. Don’t let the people who are body shaming destroy your mental peace. When you look at yourself the way you want to be looked then the world will also look at you the same way. Be bold and accept who you are before this world starts shaming you and make you hate it.