Just when we thought we couldn’t love body-positivity Instagrammer @becomingbodypositive any more, she goes and posts a message that cuts straight to our core.
Sharing a selfie with her 15,000 Instagram followers over the weekend, the 25-year-old’s caption began, “If this were a picture of my daughter, what would I tell her? Would I tell her she could never be loved with a stomach like this? Would I look at her body in disgust? Would I tell her she was less valuable, less worthy, less beautiful because her body doesn’t fit the norm?”
“Would I train her to believe fatness equates to failure and thinness is conditional for success? Would I teach her to hate herself, force her to starve herself, make her track every step and count every calorie until loose skin surrendered to bone?” her post continued.
“Would I slap her hand away from every breadbasket, humiliate her in the dressing room for needing the next size up, scold her at the dinner table for accepting seconds and then make her vomit up the evidence over and over again until nothing but a searing burn in her throat was left? I could never treat someone I loved this way, so why did I ever think this was an acceptable way to treat myself?” she wrote finally.
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Unfortunately most people of Asian decent living in all parts of the world including Australia would have experienced these exact words, actions and attitudes mentioned in the Insta caption, coming from not only members of their family, but from strangers as well. Unless of course, you are extremely underweight, which is highly praised and celebrated. Sad, but true.
Source: my own life experience, and of those of almost all Asians I know.