‘She must be on Ozempic’. ‘So much for being a body-positive influencer’. ‘Why teach us self-love when you hit the gym and lost all that weight?’ Any celebrity or influencer who has gone from fat to fit has heard such comments. For someone who’s battling body image issues, every day is a struggle. And if you are one of those Instagram haters who love to shame people, it’s honestly quite uncool of you.

Don’t we all have that one friend who’s on the curvier side? And if you’re slim and trim, aren’t there days when you make yourself feel good about having a fat friend? But the moment they start looking after themselves, hitting the gym, being a Pilates girlie, and eating salad for lunches, you poke holes into them with your judgment. And the online hate is worse if it’s a known personality or a celebrity. So, why have we, as a society, normalised body shaming? Yes, making fun of thin people’s bodies is also body shaming.

It’s time to talk about why fit shaming isn’t cool and how we need to let go of our idea of a perfect body. If you don’t agree, you can sit with that packet of chips in your hands and educate yourself.

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Fat people are always supposed to be side characters (in our heads)

You can either be skinny and mean or fat and funny; you can’t be both. Isn’t that how it works? Because how dare a fat friend crack a joke on us, right? I love how people selectively play allies. As long as their fat friend is playing a side character, they have people’s complete support. But that usually comes out from the pity we feel for them as they will probably never face hot people problems.

Everyone is approaching the curvy friend to get to know you. It’s cute, like a rom-com. But as soon as that friend loses the curly fries and starts doing curls, suddenly, they are a threat to your identity. Because fat people aren’t supposed to shed weight, become the main character, turn hot and get out of your league, amiright? Suddenly, we start feeling petty towards them instead of pitiful because they promised they would be our fat non-hot friend forever, no? No.

Lately, a lot of creators like Kusha Kapila, Rytasha Rathore, and others have been getting hate online for becoming fit and losing weight. You might not have time to work on yourself (you clearly need to make time), but if someone else does, why does that concern you? Jealousy is a bad shade on you, and it makes you look very non-chic, folks. Instead, you should seek some inspiration for yourself, get a cute workout set, a Stanley cup if you may, to feel gym core cute and lose some inches. That’s better than losing your brain cells and spreading hate all around. 

Just ’cause you don’t relate doesn’t mean you spread the hate

Recently, Aishwarya Subramanyam took to Instagram and shared her thoughts on creators losing weight and maybe even a little bit of their personality. Read the full thread here.

A popular creator, Kusha Kapila, was recently a target of hate and got a lot of backlash when she started her fitness journey. People made comments like she’s got work done, she’s on Ozempic and even brought in her divorce to shame her. Has her relatability changed just cause she got over her flabs and chose to flaunt some abs? Is it her audacity to get in better shape that makes you dislike her, or is it just jealousy? Don’t women have enough to deal with without listening to your two cents?

It’s hard enough to constantly receive comments and judgment when you are fat. But when you choose to be fit, you lose followers for not being fat anymore. Isn’t that a little unfair? It’s better to lose the dead weight anyway if you ask me, but there’s really no winning. Body shaming is an ancient concept that we need to chuck out like that toxic ex unless you thrive in suffering.

So, the next time you comment on someone, first, go take a look at that figure of yours in the mirror. Then, mind your own business and do your own thing without shaming someone else for doing what they prefer to do. Let people be happy and healthy however they choose to be. It’s their body, their choice.

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