Some heart-breaking stuff over on Never Say Diet (from Wednesday, but I am running all kinds of behind this week, so just getting a chance to tell you about it now). And a lot of them seem to stem from unkind comments made about girls’ butts and stomachs. How is that not just bad manners? Were these people raised by wolves? Honestly.
The first time I remember thinking negatively about my body was in 2nd grade, when I wore stretch pants that I thought made my legs look fat. Shortly after, I started thinking I was too skinny (and my friends thought I was anorexic because I was skinny– not true, never had an eating disorder), until around early high school, when a friend (who was very, very thin naturally) kept calling me fat. She admitted years later that she only called me “fat” because she was jealous that I had a “normal” body. Turns out she was very self-conscious about her own weight and wished she were bigger.