You’re Fat So I Can’t Date You: How To Overcome A Negative Body Image

Photograph by Rodolfo Clix

Learning to love yourself, whatever size or shape, means learning to ignore other people’s opinions and biases

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Everyone has a type.

It’s normal to be attracted to different body types, different colored hair and so on. But when does it go from “you are not my type” to a completely rude and bully-like statement? How many of us have experienced shaming only because of the appearance of well, YOU?

I was raised in a culture where everyone would stare into my mouth (literally) while I was eating. Being a ten-year-old with chubby cheeks and baby fat was not an excuse either. Even an old childhood