I have been body shamed in my life, but I thought my 1-year-old daughter had more time before it happened to her.
We have all experienced body shaming on some level. And with the rise of social media, it is even more prevalent. You’re either too fat or too skinny. Your boobs are too big or too small. Either way, you can’t win.pick up their pitchforks
, and judged my parenting. One picture, that’s all it took — and with zero knowledge of my parenting or our family. The fact that her picture was circulated so far and wide and so many people didn’t even blink at a 1-year-old being called fat shows how relentless body shaming has become in our society.
What these people didn’t know is that she had a completely well-balanced diet. She wasn’t overweight and had followed the same growth curve from birth. Her doctors weren’t concerned at all. Hell, she still lived mostly on breast milk at the time. But that didn’t matter. She still went viral for being “fat.”
Some sites blurred her face, others didn’t. Nobody reached out to me or my husband to ask for permission to use her picture. I couldn’t believe my daughter who was just a little over a year old was already being shamed about her body. I felt physically ill.
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