I'm been thinking about this a lot recently because it affects me. I vaguely inundated to it on my Twitter earlier. I personally think there's a double standard in the "fat community." For one I look at myself as a thick girl. People can interpret thick however they want. I have a big bust, 40C to be exact, paired with two very thick legs. I wear a size 10-14 in jeans and a size 16 in dresses, due to the fact that my bust and shoulders are on the broad side. I use to be all about dieting and losing weight until I started to realize this is the skin I'm in and I need to embrace it.
However not everyone has fully accepted me. Obviously I'm not thin. I'm not on the higher level of the Plus size chain but I am plus size. I know that when I walk into a store I have to head to the end of the racks where the sizes ascend. We see it even in the plus size modeling industry. Some people will get angry if models are too small. Yes if you're a plus size model you should be on the heavier side but plus size doesn't=Fat. There's many variations of Plus size. I definitely feel like I'm excluded. I feel like girls who are bigger exclude me because I'm not 'BIG ENOUGH'
It seems like I have to make a choice. People want me to choose a side. Skinny girls exclude me and thick girls say I'm not big enough. It's not their fault completely, society demands that you make a choice. You have to either side with the skinny girls or the fat girls. My decision is to side with the fat girls because they are who I identify most with. I have the burning thighs syndrome and, the chicos over the jeans. Yes they may say I'm not big enough but the numbers don't lie. In pictures it might seem like I'm thinner but that's only because I'm 5'8 and sometimes height is an illusion. I just want people to realize that there are are once again many variations of plus size and we shouldn't be excluding anyone. What do you think?
