I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I felt very comfortable about myself when I was much heavier. I feel much better about myself from being fit.
People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you're fat, that you're this, that you're that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.
I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.
Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.'
It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.
Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.
I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.
When people talk about my weight, I'm like, 'You seem to have a problem with it; I don't.'
I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.