Thinness its glorification, how it affects us

The glorification of thinness, a conversation.

I’m sharing with you the negative cycle of thinness and its glorification, a conversation about why are we even shamed by fatness anyway?

It’s summer for those of us in the northern hemisphere. The affects of having to bear our bodies out there into the world, how much we’re brainwashed into the glorification of thinness, is what I’m discussing in this post.

Usually a time where we’re made to feel guilty for our bodies not looking like a photoshopped model or a fitspo influencer on social media.

Social media means that we can curate what we see in the palm of our hands on our phones.

However, like anything, it can also have algorithms that can do the opposite of making you feel good, it can make you feel like crap for not being “fit” looking or let’s just say it “thin” enough.

As a millennial who spent her teenage years in the 2000’s, we were slammed with pictures in gossip magazines that fat shamed celebrities.

It seemed normal at the time, social media has given a voice and a platform to those who fight this glorification of thinness. I follow accounts like these to normalise what “normal” if that’s even a thing, bodies look like.

Normal bodies have flaws, bodies have stretch marks, cellulite, blemishes, scars, acne and just things which show that you have lived a life.

This topic of the glorification of thinness and being shamed into fitness, comes from spending some time back at home.

My mother is Japanese, Japan is a country which lacks very basic mental health awareness. Thinness being so important means that men and women are pressured to be extremely thin. My mother is somewhat a victim of this mentality and this is being passed on to me.

Being fat, being such a terrible thing is always on my mind.

How do we learn to love ourselves (for a self love yoga practice click here), our whole selves when we live in a society that shames us when we put on weight and glorifies thinness, especially being half Japanese.

Asian society has a huge fatphobia and expects us all to be stick thin.

This is a discussion that’s been on my mind and heart. I’d love for you to join and chat if this resonated with you too.

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