'For me, and for many other fat people, reclaiming the word fat is about reclaiming our very bodies, starting with the right to name them.'
I am at the airport security checkpoint when I hear a small and tender seedling of a voice behind me. “Look at that fat lady!” I turn around, meet the bright eyes of a three-year-old, and smile.
Author Allie Rowbottom gives us a 35-year-old former influencer who is choosing a high-risk elective surgery to reverse her many plastic surgery procedures while also raising questions about the effects social media has on our perception of beauty, the cost of excessive self promotion, and whether the staggering amount of time and money spent to become Insta-perfect is ever worth it.
When I talk to other very fat people, they often feel similarly. The hurt doesn’t come in naming our bodies for what they are – it comes in the harm that is visited upon us for being visibly fat. It comes from the street harassment, the pervasive medical discrimination, and the reliable silence of thin people when we are bullied.
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