Body shaming, and "My Big Fat Fabulous Life"

[Pyrrho]

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the story about a woman who is severely overweight who is working to lose weight?  

I mean I don't watch TLC.  Fuck TLC.  19 kids and counting and honey boo boo were fucking stupid.  But it sounds to me like the show is about a mobidly obese woman who is working to lose weight (while not hating herself)

My youngest daughter is underweight (she doesn't weigh 100 lbs soaking wet).  And one of her best friends is underweight, but not by quite as much as she is.  She does some modeling, and a few people told her she needed to lose weight if she wanted more jobs.  For fucks sake that's ridiculous.  People have fucking ridiculous standards for what a woman should look like.  I know that I'm not super model thin, but I'm in pretty fucking good shape.  My BMI is in the fucking normal range, and some people would consider me 'fat' (I fucking dare any of them to fucking tell me that to my fucking face).  

Do some people need to lose weight?  Yeah.  But a lot of people don't, and shaming them isn't the fucking way to get them to lose weight.  And telling people of normal weight they need to lose weight needs to fucking stop.  And telling people who are underweight they need to lose MORE weight really needs to fucking stop.

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The modeling industry is certainly that way, but I don't think society tells people to be underweight. Certainly most men don't prefer women underweight.

I know I don't.  I also don't like women overweight.  To me, the AMA seems to have the right idea for sex appeal when they give a weight range for good health.  Healthy is sexy.