Fat is disgusting?

ME

At what point do we begin to stand up for ourselves ? It seems sometimes we are so quick to stand tall about pointless issues like the score of the local ball game.  BUT when it comes to morals and values and the way someone treats you, we tend to just let things slide till we have had to much.


Well today I hit that point.  For years I had allowed someone who we will call Ramona. Someone I considered a friend to say mean and hateful things about "fat" and "ugly" people.  It generally doesn't bother me because so many of my friends tend to make these comments.  I know that I am generally the only fat one so I let it go.  I am not sure that it is necessarily the fat jokes that get me, but more the fact that I know lots about this kid and her family and they are not all the beautiful people.
I am not necessarily fat by choice but then again there is no grand explanation as to why I am the way I am.   I was diagnosed with a lung disease when I was 15 and was put on a ton of steroids for about 3 years till I just quit taking them.  It was shortly after that I began to gain weight.  Then some years later I partied hard and it could have be the large amounts of Beer combo-ed with the fast food I ate that made me pack on the pounds.  Or maybe it was the fact that I went from working retail and running my ass off to make a sale, to sitting at a desk 40+ hours a week.  Then there is the fact that I quit all sports I was in and stopped exercising which is something we had done daily since I was 11.  And last but not least maybe it is my Poly cystic ovarian syndrome.  Either way  I am fully aware of what my health risk are and what I look like and what size I truly am.  I am also painfully aware of what needs to be done to get healthy.

So I dont need some self righteous person constantly telling me and people like me how disgusting we are or how ugly we are.  Or how I may use this or that as an excuse to be the way I am.  I do not use excuses I am well aware that my lifestyle and lack of healthy habits got me to where I am today.  I also believe I am a much happier person then Ramona will ever be.  Fat or skinny I love me,  I do think I have room for improvement but then again who doesn't. . .

Well apparently Channel's creative director Karl Lagerfeld feels he needs no work.  I could sit here and express the things I think he could work on but then again I would be no better then him so I will not. I will say this though, he recently said that singer Adele "is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice".  Then you have Marie Claire's Blogger Maura Kelly said that fat people are gross after watching and episode of Mike and Molly.  Well who asked them? Adele has said time and time again she loves her body so I am not sure why Lagerfeld felt the need to put in his two cents and then retract his statement saying she is his favorite singer.  That's like Fred  Phelps saying he will support out troops, we all know its bull shit.  As for blogger Maura well she is no different then you or I she is just a blogger, I will however say I will never buy another issue of Marie Claire. 

Im not asking that you all become overly sensitive to the issue just to be more mindful of what you say.  Just because I am fat it doesn't make me a bad daughter, sister, friend, co worker or citizen.  I believe it actually makes me a well rounded person :) 

P.S Saying someone has a Beautiful face despite the fact they are fat. . . is not a compliment.