Personal Narrative: A Wrong Way To Have A Body

No Wrong Way To Have A Body
What is like to be overweight? Many people will never understand this question because they have not had to carried extra weight around with them everywhere they go and be criticized. A numerous amount of this discrimination comes from movies where someone is bullied for their size, as well as making fun of obese people in tv commercials and other ads. Nevertheless do people think about how larger people may already suffer hatred from other people since they are not skinny. Many people fail to comprehend that “obesity is a disease and over 78 million Americans suffer from this disease and are in need of treatment” (Smith ). Obese people are teased at all ages and the people teasing them are discriminating here …show more content…
With this in mind people tend to hold on to these words for a long time because it shows that you are not okay the way you are. I can relate to this because all of my life my grandmother has told me I am to fat and I need to workout. This has had an enormous impact on because I did not have much support when I was working out all I would here is my grandmother saying i 'm still fat. I became so discouraged that I stopped working out. This still affects me for a very long time. It did not stop bothering me until recently. I realized that I could not let her opinions dictate my life. Looking back at the period of my life where she called me fat, and all of the other mean things she wanted me to be something I was not. She wanted me to be the same size as my brother because he was super skinny. I also looked at pictures and I do not believe I was fat, I think I was a normal size. But listening to her shifted my whole view of my body image. I provided this information to show that I can relate to these people because i am still going through this process myself. I know it is not easy to hear the people you love the most talk about your size. Her words were very hurtful and it made it hard for me to workout because I felt like no matter what I did it was never good enough. She would always tell how I am going to go on a …show more content…
When this is still being done today in media through magazines, tv and billboards. This has a negative effect on overweight people because it is a constant reminder of their size. To Be Fat Like Me which was directed by Douglas Barr is about a girl that was of a small physique and she was writing about what it is like to be fat. She goes to a new school wearing a fat suit, and everyday she logs in a journal. This includes the things that were said to her and how she felt. This was her senior project. She wanted to inform her senior class of what they were doing and how it was wrong. By putting herself in an obese person’s shoes she kept a diary of what had happened to her and the things she went through. Through this she was able to see that people laughing at you saying being skinny is better is wrong. As she went over the things the different she wrote in journal she realized most of the comments were comparing her to skinny people. In one of entries she wrote. I think people that make fun of people should watch this movie to see how it feels to be mistreated and discriminated