Body Shaming is REAL Stupid

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So I want to put a disclaimer out, that post like this will not be frequent but, I was literally subjected to Body Shaming three days into the New Year! (Like seriously are we not grown?) 🙄 Now I know MOST people think nothing of it when they do it, and probably had no ill will or bad intentions towards the person they were directing their comments to, but that doesn’t mean that the person you were directing your “nice nasty” comments to did not feel the effects of your words, OR does it in any way make it right!

Now I myself have been on the other side of body shaming. I think we all have at some point in our lives, rather it’s towards yourself or others. I use to do it a lot when I was younger because I was always on the slim side so a lot of kids at school (girls) would use that as a tool to pick on me. So naturally if your going to pick on me, I’m going to do it right back! Hey, I get it! Kids will be kids, and I was too beautiful for them to say anything else bad about me.

As I got older I was still hella self conscious about my weight. Never showed my legs until college. No shorts, skirts, heck you barely could get me in capris 😂😂 College was my game changer! I don’t know what it was, maybe it was the chance to start over or maybe I just got REALLY tired of the bullshit and started respecting and loving my body. Either way, I felt beautiful & that confidence gave me the backbone I never knew I had. 

Now, I say all this to say….Slim people DO NOT like to get reminded that they are slim. (H-E-L-L-O!! 🖐 We have a mirror for that!) Nor do they like being called Skinny! Just like healthy people don’t like being called Fat! Hell, they probably don’t like being called healthy either. (If healthy is offensive to any of my readers I do overly apologize!)

I don’t get how it’s ok to ask a slim person what size they wear, but then get defensive when they turn around and ask you the same thing. 😒

Let’s play the question game! 

Question to a slim person: “Do you eat”?
Question to a healthy person: “Do you eat?

Now this question will be taken two TOTALLY different ways by both individuals. But both will think the person asking the question is trying to be funny.

Comment to a Slim person: You better hurry up and get inside before the wind blows you away.

Comment to a healthy person: You look like you’ve never missed a meal.

Now I have heard of some of those comments all my life. I’m sure you’ve heard at least one of them yourself. People constantly say this to people, and some those people could be friends, family, or even coworkers. Now the comments were probably meant to be funny. But do you know that person’s life? Do YOU know their struggles? Unless you have lived in their shoes, you can’t really say how they will take a comment, so just be mindful of that.

I’ve taken a lot of body shaming in the past when I was a child. I get a little of it as an adult, but I’m a totally different person now than I was back then. Anyone who knows me today, knows that I’m a little firecracker, who has an extremely reckless mouth. It was only GOD that kept me today. 🙌

Thoughts to myself: I love my job, I love my job, I LOVE MY JOB 😂😤😡

To my readers:
I want to let you know that you are beautiful, intelligent, strong and blessed beyond measure. Those people who are trying to make you feel small, hate something about themselves! There is absolutely N-O-T-H-I-N-G wrong with you. God made you PERFECT, and if those individuals can’t see that, forget them!!! Surround yourself with positive supportive people who know and love you for who you are!

At the end of the day we are all human. We all have SOMETHING we wish we could change about ourselves. In this crazy world we live in today, it’s soooo much easier to lift one another up than to bring one another down. A joke to you could be devastating to someone else.

Once your words have left your mouth there is no taking them back. Just remember that!

I am so glad I have a platform where my voice can be heard.  If you can relate to this post, please leave a comment. If you ever want to talk about ANYTHING please inbox me or message me on any social media platform. I hope this brought some awareness to some and a little comfort for others.

Moral of the story: Just be kind to others, and if you think you can’t, stick with the good ol’ saying: If you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say nothing at all. 😒

Much love, 

Vee