Fat Shaming – Where’s the Love People?

Society pressures are with us everyday, and you may be surprised to learn that the celebs are no exception. Striving for perfection seems to be the aim of the day, and we all do it. We all create an illusive and unachievable image to struggle for, and it seems to be driving us all crazy

Newspapers, magazines, movie posters; they all feature photoshopped, airbrushed, nip tucked cover stars, with figures and flawless complexions achieved only with the aid of modern technology.

The pointlessness of striving to be THAT perfect isn’t a concept that most young teenagers can accept. The unattainability of this ideology can cause a twisted, self-prescribed image of ones self, and that in itself is a modern day travesty.

We know this really

We all know this really. Think about it. Who puts filter free photos on Facebook these days? Not very many people.

We’ve been doing this one for a while, but now it has a name. Fat Shaming. Pointing at celebs and judging. He without sin remember?

Look at it this way: how do you feel about your weight right now? Now picture this; thousands of people pointing at you and calling you fat while you continue your struggle in your battle to lose weight. How does that make you feel? Pretty sucky, right?

Celebrities aren’t bullet proof it would seem, and believe it or not, they have feelings just like the rest of us. Emotional abuse shouldn’t be tolerated by anyone, but just how are the celeb's even affected? Surely with all of their money and fame, nothing can touch them right?

Wrong. Do you remember watching ‘boy meets world’ when you were younger? The stunning actress, Danielle Fishel, recently got married to her long-term boyfriend Tim Belusko, but escape the taunts, she did not.

Celebs take to Twitter

She tweeted this on October 22^nd: "Ppl saying I was FAT at my wedding: You are the worst kind of people on the planet. I weigh 107 pounds and am 5'1". YOU are the reason anorexia exists."

She’s not the only one. We’ve all seen the images of Kim Kardashian in her third trimester. Granted, she did put on a lot of weight, but who cares? She was CARRYING A BABY. That’ll do that to you, you know.

Poor Kim spoke out, saying that,"every day I would hear people criticise me, and it would affect me. Little by little it would chip away at my soul."

And do you remember sweet 16 Mischa Barton from The O.C? (oh how we miss you O.C. Come back into our lives. Please) The constant weight remarks she received drove her to a breakdown. "It was a full-on breakdown," Barton said. "Straight out of ‘Girl, Interrupted.’ Story of my life. I was under enormous pressure. It was terrifying."

So if we can leave you with something to think about, it’s that the bitchy era of tormenting people for fun needs to be left at school with all of the other adolescent behaviours that we picked up, like rolling our skirts up, and plucking our eyebrows to nothing. There’s no place for it now.

Love yourself

Being a size 12 is not fat. Having some wobbly bits around your womanly areas gives you curves. It is not fat. Embrace a fuller figure; because as long as you are happy, maintain a healthy diet, and move your body regularly, you are fine. Obesity however, is an entirely different matter, of which you should absolutely do something about. Not tomorrow. Now.

Are you guilty of Fat Shaming?