fatphobia

I don’t know that I’ve ever really trusted doctors.

A couple of weeks ago I got an email that contained a question I never thought I’d be asked.

I don’t know that I’ve ever really trusted doctors.

“You’re fat and ugly,” I’d hear, or, “Look at your stomach, it’s disgusting!” This wasn’t a neighborhood bully taunting me on my way to school — this is what I said to myself all day long, well into adulthood.

After competing for her country in the artistic gymnastics in Rio on Sunday [August 7], 22-year-old Alexa Moreno was taunted online by cruel trolls. Apparently, Olympic-level taut is not taut enough.

Looking back at childhood photos now is bittersweet. In the moment the camera caught, I'm always smiling, but I wasn't always a happy child. I was fat-shamed almost daily.

It all started with a text from my roomie, Kori: "I am manifesting lying out, and getting some sun on my cooch."

It was Nancy's thin privilege that obscured her ability to see what Barb saw in the Popular Kids, to make the social leap that Barb couldn't, and that led her to ultimately symbolically (and actually) leave behind their friendship when a more normative offer presented itself.