I never tried to take the comments people made about my weight seriously till I recognized truly it was body shaming. For those of you that do not know the meaning behind body shaming well here is is: "Body shaming is defined as inappropriate negative statements and attitudes toward another person's weight or size" And I realized truly that even though I am skinny people still body shamed me. I have faced body shaming from people of all ages, and thats what shocks me most. To all the people out there saying someone who is 5'4" and 110lbs can not be body shamed is wrong. I experience almost on a weekly basis someone making a comment about my weight.

I have struggled with my own self image a lot, and I realized how subtle people people are with body shaming in modern society. They may not even realize themselves the comments they say affect the person they happen to be speaking to. The people who have body shamed me the most are people who are over the age of 30. People closer to my own age embraced my figure and size. While older women seemed to think they had my life and size all figured out. I have faced women making comments such as "Do you even eat?" "Have you ever meet with a doctor about your weight?" "I never have seen someone so skinny?" "Did you lose weight?" They will ask all with hat look that shows they think I am hiding some secret eating disorder when in fact I never have always been the same weight since I was 13. My doctor never once has mentioned I have a problem or been concerned. I eat three sometimes four meals a day like a normal person. If one looked at my relatives they would see that they too are very thin even when they are 90+ years old and eat anything they want. So to all the people who constantly judge me, well I never asked for your comments about my weight. I am a confident person, but the comments make you look twice in the mirror and make you think twice about your outfit.

So to all the people who unknowingly or purposely body shame skinny people accusing them of eating disorders or self starvation please think twice about it. For the fact, you are not in my home and do not know my family history, and the most important thing you are not my doctor. I choose to eat healthy and not so healthy food all the time. I don't just it around and eat vegetables all day to all the women that seem to think I do. Because I will be honest I love fried chicken as much as the next girl.

I realized I shouldn't be ashamed for being skinny. But for all those people making accusations should feel guilty about their remarks and what they are implying. People wonder why all women are self conscious about their bodies well its because well other women. So to all women think about what you say because we are creating generation after generation of women who feel bad about their bodies, when in fact we should celebrate the beauty of everyone woman because we are all different. So everyone lets stop the body shaming of women of all sizes, and instead celebrate the many sizes of women.