Staff Poetry
I was always told I was
Pretty for a
Fat Girl
The words always echoed in my mind
Creating it more of an insult than anything
A slap in the face
I constantly scroll through Twitter
Searching for my dose of “news”
All I can find are
“Thinspirations”
Toned
Thin
Tan
Women Preaching about how
Healthy they are
But no one ever
Tells them
They are pretty for a
Thin girl
I have always been told that the mass of my body
Determines how healthy I am
But studies have shown there is no
Correlation
Beauty and health are not only skin deep
I am so much more
More than the mass of my
Flesh
I am
the voice in my friends head telling her she is beautiful.
Even when she thinks otherwise.
I am
The comfort she needs to make it through the day.
It is hard enough for her to walk through the streets without being cat call about her
thick thighs.
I am
The love that tells her she is worth so much more than the numbers that pop up
on the scale below her feet
I am
So much more
Than pretty for a
Fat girl