The only way a woman past puberty can be thin
is via anorexia or bulimia or drugs. But do they admit this? They do
not. Instead, they lie. They say, “I don’t have an eating disorder”. Oh
puh-lease! They say, “I eat all the time!” Pah! They say “my mother is
skinny too, it’s genetics.” Give me a break! They say, “I try to put on
weight but I can’t.” Yeah, right!
And do we believe them? Hell no. We sneer and we snark and we roll our
eyes because they are liars, aren’t they? Aren’t they? Well, maybe they
aren’t. Maybe, just maybe, some women are naturally thin, in the same
way that some women, no matter how much they diet and exercise, are
naturally bigger.
So why do so many women feel so suspicious and hostile towards our
skinny sisters? Jealousy, perhaps. We envy their will power, their
ability to eat cake without fear or consequence, their fast metabolism
and their teeny tiny bottoms. Is that it?
I have a girlfriend who is very thin. She also has three kids. This rare combination means she’s constantly on the receiving end of veiled accusations disguised as faux concern. “I’m constantly being asked ‘do you ever eat?’ she sighs “even by people I’ve just met and the guy who makes my coffee. One of my friends is obese and can barely lift up her kids. I would never comment on her weight or say I was worried about her health and yet she feels perfectly comfortable introducing me to people as ‘my hungry friend’. She thinks it’s funny.”
My skinny friend (who is not in fact hungry) also has to deal with constantly being told, “you don’t look like you have three kids!” To this, she replies “No-one sent me the memo that you have to be a certain size to be a mother.”
There are very few people we’re allowed to be horrible about any more. This is a good thing. We’ve learnt (well, most of us have learnt) that it’s unacceptable to insult people based on their race, gender, height, age or size – not if they’re overweight, anyway.
Top Comments
Its norm now in showbiz. Dieting and boob jobs. Sad thing is they think they look good. If you want to look good i.e. proportionate figure, you have to exercise instead of losing weight and going skinny.
Skinny girls are not always liars...but one thing I can't stand is beautiful slim girls who refuse to admit they're any smaller! Like I don't mean randomly saying to someone 'oh you're so skinny, you're so lucky' but I am in still in high schoool and we have a lot of D&M discussions about body image and stuff. And sometimes a really skinny girl will make a joke about her 'muffin top' or her 'giant belly' neither of which exist and it really does make everyone else feel bad...makes you wonder what they think about us! Then again these girls could be experiencing problems with body image. Because if they looked in the mirror they would see a bikini model!