I’m almost 16 years old i’m 5 feet tall and weigh 90 pounds. I’m so goddamn skinny i dont fit into ANYTHING but the kids section. I have no boobs and no ass and im soooooo sick of not being able to fit into clothes and being called “lucky” because im so little. Everyone shows fat people love why cant they show skinny people love. Bigger people always complain “i dont fit into anything” well guess what i dont fit into anything either and nobody cares!!! There are so many plus sized stores and there are no special stores for skinny girls, how is this!? Im sick and tired of being told i look like im 12 because im so small. My sister is 12 and has bigger boobs and a nicer body they me! I’m so sick of being so tiny and everyone always asking me if i’m in middle school. All of my friends dont even understand the struggle of when i go shopping how hard it is to find things i fit into to. I’m so “lucky” really thats funny because last time i checked not a lot of stores carry 00 or xs. i cant take it i really cant. & im not anerexic i just have  fast metabolism im sick of the skinny jokes and the your so “luckys” because im not being skinny sucks just as much as being fat and i dont get why being skinny is so glorfied. 

- submitted by fuck-offfff

 I just want to thank you, so so much, for being such an amazing and kind person. I have had an immensely difficult time accepting my thin body.
It’s even worse as I am from the Caribbean, and here ‘curves are preferred’. I used to cry every single day and even ate pure lard just to gain weight. I have read all of your answers and if it wasn’t for you I would still be so depressed or maybe not even alive. My parents have helped greatly also but you have really changed my life. I don’t know how I could ever re pay you. Thank you so so so much.

- submitted by anonymous

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Reading a lot of these made me feel very inspired and now I realize I am not alone. I’m not the only one who feels self conscious about being skinny. Being 5’6 and 110 lbs, it is frustrating to be around all these other girls who have beautiful curves, legs, butts and boobs. Not being able to find fitting clothes, having no ass. It is a shitty feeling to look in the mirror in the middle of the day and see you have no shape, no butt, no nothing. Just skin wrapped around your bones. Most of all though, having the school nurse harass your family over something uncontrollable makes you feel horrible. My sister and I are very tiny, and in result, the school decided to point fingers at my parents for “neglecting” us despite the fact they are hardworking, kindhearted people. Nope. Dyfs came to our house last December and investigated us. This year the nurse sent us a letter about my sisters weight as well. Dyfs came right when my ex boyfriend and I went through a break up, so everyone accused him of calling dyfs on us, so we couldn’t even publicly get back together when the smoke cleared. All because my sister and I were judged for being skinny. This is why I get really pissed when people grab my wrists and tell me how skinny I am, or call me a stick, ect. I don’t call anyone fat or tell them they have sausage arms/legs. Why do it to me?

- submitted by sabrina-dawnx

This isn’t really my story. More like both a friend of mine’s and my story. For starters, I’m in no way skinny. I’ve been average to overweight my whole life, but I’ve been doing really well with getting healthier. My friend (no names) on the other hand, has always always always been petite. Always. It’s simply how she is. I never bothered her about it, and we used to be so close. It’s hard to find friends who don’t pick at each other for weight. She was picked on everyday that we knew each other. Go eat a burger, ew stop puking etc. etc. She was literally making herself sick from trying to eat more crap to gain weight. No human is supposed to eat as much sugar, sodium, grease, and bulking powder as she was downing everyday. I’ve NEVER commented on her weight, even though I’m trying to get smaller myself. But she ended up turning really mean the one time I asked her to get medical help for how sick she was getting from all the things she was doing to herself. We’re not friends anymore, because she thinks I’m one of THEM now. I moved from where we were living, but the last time I saw her it seriously looked like her body was crashing… I’m probably putting this in the wrong place, but I wanted to tell all of the readers something. PLEASEpleasepleaseplease love yourself. Everybody and every body should. Please try not to listen to people who try to shame you for being small. I may not be small myself, but I do think that everyone should mind their own business and find other ways to make themselves feel better than by bullying other people. I have no idea if my friend is okay, because I haven’t heard from her since she stopped talking to me. When you feel that you are beautiful, THAT is what makes you beautiful. Society shouldn’t have a say in how we feel about ourselves at all. Our health is more important than some strange war over waist size. Tumblr love!!!

- submitted by anon

voidflower:

“Real women have curves”…

I’m pretty sure the only qualification for being a “real woman” is being… y’know… a woman… that exists…

I love you.

Please, someone, please! Yes, this is against the Dove ‘Real beauty’ campaign.

(Source: theskinnygirlproblems)

(Source: theskinnygirlproblems)

I’ve recently come to appreciate my body.

Before, I vowed I would never model because I didn’t want to perpetuate the obsession with anorexia and being thin. But now I’ve decided that if I ever get an offer, I’m going to take it with pride, because I’ve come to realize that other girls’ body image issues are in no way my fault. It is not my fault if a “curvy” girl is unhappy with her weight and refuses to take the initiative to change it. It is not my fault if a mentally unstable girl sees my picture and thinks I am the standard of beauty. And it is most definitely not my fault if girls resort to starving their bodies to look like me. Because if I can’t help being the way I am, I can’t help how people react to it.

I realized that I am not the number on the scale that declares me underweight. I am not the slender figure that heavier girls covet. I am not my skinny, long legs. I am not my tiny waist and tinier hips. I am not my small breasts or bony shoulders or knobby knees. I am not the unfair accusations or judgmental glares cast at me. I am not the hurtful names I was called in junior high.

I am an incredibly talented, intelligent individual, and dammit, that’s what makes me gorgeous. My body does not define me; my personality defines me. My talents and accomplishments define me.

I’ve come to appreciate my figure, because unlike “curvy” girls, I don’t need to justify my weight. I look great in trendier clothes, in a bathingsuit, hell, I even look good naked. And I’m fortunate enough to say that I have a wonderful man in my life who loves me unconditionally, bones and all, for who I am, and finds my body to be perfect.

I may be “the skinny one” for a long time, but you know what? I’m okay with that. Someone, somewhere in the sick, twisted mind of society, made that a compliment, and I’m going to take it as one.

- submitted by jimwh0rrison

Hiya, Im  a 13 year old girl with a bmi of 11. not a day goes by without someone telling me to gain weight or have you got eating disorder. even my pshce teacher asked me if i was anorexic in front of the whole class. i am incredibly grateful as i was  about to self harm when i found this blog. i now understand that im not the only one out there like me. i honestly believe that this blog saved my life. thank you so much .

- submitted by anon

….Thin women may have an easier go of it than fat women, but they’re still subject to attacks about their size. Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, is subjected to constant speculation about her health and comments about her weight.

Angelina Jolie’s Oscar appearance last month set Twitter alight with criticisms of her thin frame. “Angelina Jolie looks like her arms are ready to snap in half at any moment. Gross,” wrote one user. Speaking out against very thin star celebrities can feel like a satisfying blow against unrealistic body standards, says Raegan Chastain….

Speaking out against very thin star celebrities can feel like a satisfying blow against unrealistic body standards, says Raegan Chastain.

As an advocate for fat acceptance she has often heard people criticise women for being too thin. “If you want to push against standards, you don’t do that by bashing people,” she says.

“You can’t look at someone and tell how healthy they are. Weight and health are two separate things.”

“There are people who are naturally thin and people who are naturally heavier, and we need to accept a diversity,” Ms Mysko says.

“That’s the goal: not to define one body type as attractive and another type as unattractive.” … (cont)

- Kate Dailey, BBC News

Today was just another day. With everything going the way it usually does. But then conversation starts in my dorm and everyone is talking about having big boobs and being thick and not being able to get clothes that fit. I figured I’d share how I felt that thin girls go through the same thing… believe it or not. Their response? “It’s easier to take in clothes than take out.” You don’t think I understand that? It’s not so much that I got upset when this was stated, but the fact that I had no one to back me up on this made it hard for me to speak up.

I hate that no one understands, no matter how much I tell them, that thin women take offense to things just as much as thicker women. You think I want to be this thin?! I have fast metabolism that I cannot control. It hurts that they didn’t even acknowledge that I may have had bad memories associated with this. As hard as I try to accept my figure and what I look like, it’s really hard. It is fantastic to know that I am not alone. I absolutely love this page. I cannot explain how much this helps me push forward everyday. No one gets that this is a battle I have inside myself and that it’s hard to wear shorts, or just about anything, and not feel self conscious. I feel so much better talking to women who are going through the same thing!

- submitted by Taylor