Body image

This image. I hate this image.

This image cropped up after the surge of pro-chubby, pro-body love images that attacked the internet. I think this image sets a terrible precedent and is completely unfounded.

Let me first start off by saying, everyone has a right to their body and not feel bad for it. EVERYONE. Whether you’re tall, short, fat, skinny, black, curvy or flat, you have every divine right to think you are fucking fabulous. This image does not say that.

Society is far more accepting of thin being equal to beautiful. Media pushes the “size 0” mentality as what women should strive for to be “beautiful”. Models? They happen to be the size of my thigh, but they’re allowed to feel gorgeous because they are “ideal” beauty. Natural thinness is genetics, if you are naturally willowy or thin then by god be happy about it, you are gorgeous. When women shrink themselves down to these unattainable sizes and have bones sticking out of every direction and are obviously NOT healthy that’s when you should not love your bones. Skinny is sexy, but so are curves. There is no absolute description as to what constitutes beautiful.

Right now it is much easier for a thinner woman to be hit on in bars, find gorgeous runway clothes, why? Society has accepted that thin is healthy and beautiful. Being bigger, you have to fight constantly in order to just be allowed to think you look good. Have a bum? Have you checked out this exercise equipment? Have you thought about taking a class or going for a run? You should probably get that fat-free. I was told on the sidewalk by some man “wow, you’re fat. You must have a ton of health problems and have nobody love you.” I’m not saying this is fair or that thin girls deserve to be picked on because they’re not curvy, but I don’t have to work my ass off to be thin like you to be gorgeous! If you decide that’s what you want to look like that’s fine, but don’t throw that expectation onto me every morning.

It’s taken a long time for me to be comfortable in my skin and come to the conclusion that I am gorgeous. No woman deserves to be called anorexic unless they are suffering from anorexia nervosa, but no woman deserves to be called fat and a slob because they aren’t thin either.

I’m completely on board with this body love revolution, but I think with that has to come the destruction of pictures (and opinions) like above. Kate Moss is famous for saying “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” That thinking, that “you’re not skinny therefore you’re just eating everything to be fat” thinking needs to be thrown out. All bodies are beautiful; society just isn’t at a point of recognizing that yet; bigger women are being louder in their self-love empowerment because they need to be. There was a time where skinny was unhealthy and disgusting and I can assume naturally thin women would have had the same response.