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Body image issues and eating disorder start as young as 12 in girls! Here is a hard hitting poem about living in a fatphobic society.
TW: Eating disorder, body-image issues, mentions of drugs.
Am I skinny enough?
Should I lose more weight?
Should I eat less?
Maybe I should take some pills.
Should I sleep more to avoid eating?
Will keeping myself busy make me forget about eating?
Maybe I shouldn’t meet my friends,
If I do, I would have to eat.
And my seven days fast would go to waste.
Is that one piece of dosa?
I had in the morning,
Making me look fat?
Maybe I should vomit
Forcefully after this meal,
Secretly without anyone noticing.
Maybe I should start cardio
Maybe I should work out more
Maybe I should do yoga
Maybe I should just do drugs
Maybe
Maybe someday I will be enough.
Will I ever be enough?
Image source: Still from Ad Campaign by Dove #StopTheBeautyTest, edited on CanvaPro
If our readers or someone you know is suffering from eating-disorders because of body image issues or if social anxiety is leading them to harmful thoughts: please try to get help immediately.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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