Thank you so much for your vulnerability. I also grew up with a mom who always wanted to lose weight and with aunts and family friends who went on about the same thing. I have lived years imagining what my life would be like if I had grown up skinny but I remember losing weight once, for a year at sixteen, and it was traumatizing. I had always been visible as a fat child, a fat teenager, but as a once-fat-now-not 16-year-old, I wasn’t prepared for the hypervisibility. I gained back the weight (and then some) later on but I am working on my relationship with food and exercise. I have detached myself from the idea of weight loss and I just think about incorporating movement into my routine weekly. I’m a few years older than you and with therapy, I can honestly say it has gotten better. Wishing you lots of love to you and your mom <3
thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing your experience also... i so relate to the hyper visibility and the catch-22 of being witnessed to just exist in our bodies! im so glad things are better for you now <3 hugs
my brain ate this while my mouth ate my own buttered toast - my most cherished morning ritual. what an experience to come upon these final words and then swallow them!
“There is no male relative demanding I explain the space I take up in my quietness. There is only my mother, and her inadequacies, and the little girl inside her with the breaking heart.” 💔 thank you for sharing your and your mother’s beautiful, vulnerable selves with us 🤍
Amazing, illuminating, heartbreaking, thank you for writing and sharing. I connect to a lot of aspects of this experience and have always thought WW needs to answer for their crimes against women and children
i needed this, thank you
thank you for reading <3
Thank you so much for your vulnerability. I also grew up with a mom who always wanted to lose weight and with aunts and family friends who went on about the same thing. I have lived years imagining what my life would be like if I had grown up skinny but I remember losing weight once, for a year at sixteen, and it was traumatizing. I had always been visible as a fat child, a fat teenager, but as a once-fat-now-not 16-year-old, I wasn’t prepared for the hypervisibility. I gained back the weight (and then some) later on but I am working on my relationship with food and exercise. I have detached myself from the idea of weight loss and I just think about incorporating movement into my routine weekly. I’m a few years older than you and with therapy, I can honestly say it has gotten better. Wishing you lots of love to you and your mom <3
thank you so much for your kind words and for sharing your experience also... i so relate to the hyper visibility and the catch-22 of being witnessed to just exist in our bodies! im so glad things are better for you now <3 hugs
my brain ate this while my mouth ate my own buttered toast - my most cherished morning ritual. what an experience to come upon these final words and then swallow them!
love xx
oh i love that!! thank you for reading friend <3
literally trying not to sob on the bus right now at how familiar this is
sending you a big big hug. thank you so much for reading <3
“There is no male relative demanding I explain the space I take up in my quietness. There is only my mother, and her inadequacies, and the little girl inside her with the breaking heart.” 💔 thank you for sharing your and your mother’s beautiful, vulnerable selves with us 🤍
thank you for reading friend <3 love love love you
Amazing, illuminating, heartbreaking, thank you for writing and sharing. I connect to a lot of aspects of this experience and have always thought WW needs to answer for their crimes against women and children
thank you so much for reading!! haha absolutely we must be entitled to compensation. hugs <3
shawtie did our maternal families fall off the SAME TREE OMG
adore u love u