We can all think of that time in our life when we were a victim of body shaming. The constant bullying of the media and pictures of "healthy, young men/women" in front of our faces makes ourselves feel as though we are the most horrid thing on this planet. Many victims of body shaming has caused them to feel depressed, uncomfortable, and worse, develop disorders.
If you can name one magazine, one website, or a news station/tv show where the actors/actresses, news reporters, fashion bloggers, etc. does not say that you need to look a certain way in fashion or anywhere else, you're lying. If you can say you were never body shamed, good for you...we all wish we were not victims but we are and we need to find a way to stop it.
Finding the halt to body shaming will be the most difficult social problem to fix. It is constantly in our minds that we will never look like our idols and that we will never look like the person we want to be. I had a dream not too long ago where I was shopping for a dress that could show off my legs and show off my belly. In the dream I put on a dress and I hated the way I looked. I was crying and screaming and telling myself that I will never look like so-and-so from this TV show or so-and-so from this band. It is permanently stuck in my conscious and sub-conscious mind that I will never look good.
I know I am not the only one that has had this kind of mind set...and if you do have this constant thinking of being and looking terrible, you are not alone. We can all fight this constant negativity of "being too fat" and having too much "baby weight". Are we going to keep letting this happening so our children and our children's children having self esteem issues because they don't have a gap in between their thighs or having abs and big muscle arms? I don't! Why? Because why would not I want my son or daughter to hate themselves forever because they see people of TV and on billboards and want to be like them.
Sadly, people care about what you look like instead of their intellectual ability and what that person cares about. The Olympics is a very good example of how people in the world do not care about how the athletes perform but how they look while performing it. For example, nineteen year old Katie Ledecky got the world record for the 1500 meter freestyle when every body cared about how she looked while doing it and not the fact that she was two body lengths ahead of every swimmer in the pool! She just broke a world record and you only care about how she looked like after the event.
So just remember that no celebrity, no famous person you love look exactly like in their pictures and most of all they are a victim of body shaming so you are never alone in your feelings. So fight the negativity and just be you!
