The Life and Times of a FAT Girl

When I was about 7 years old, I had started to gain weight. I had weighed 4 pounds 6 ounces at birth so maybe I was over compensating for that. Who knows? Anyway, I was never the perfect skinny girl like the rest of my friends and was constantly reminded of that everyday at school. I would be constantly teased about how fat I was and how I needed to lose weight. I believe I have been called almost everything you can think to call a girl of my size. Even people I didn't know (who were older) felt like they knew so well that they could comment on my weight and I was only 10 years old. This experience made me wonder why is society so scared?

An F.A.T. girl's life is tough and that is putting it politely. For those of you who do not know what a F.A.T girl means, it means "Fabulous and Thick". On a regular basis when we go out, there is usually someone giving us a dirty look or saying something under his or her breath. If that doesn't happen there are the bold ones that will say it out loud and to a big girl's face. All we want to do is have a good time with our friends and love ones. We don't mean a harm and it is not like we have three horns on our heads and purple even that person doesn't deserve the rude and unsolicited treatment. There are so many things to do in your life then to tell people whom unworthy they are just because of what they look like.

Telling a person, something that they already know is not going to change a thing. You telling me I'm fat are not going to make me go "okay let me lose weight to please this person". In fact it will just do the opposite by making me depressed and go to my comfort zone, which happens to be food. Magazines show pictures of pretty people so they can sell their product but that doesn't mean those magazines should be used as law to mistreat another human being. Even Tyra Banks has said a million times that even her own pictures have been airbrushed a bit to make her look more glamorous.