am i fat?

sound familiar? hear what her friends have to say...

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am i fat?

art & story by:
lauren weinstein

Comments

[Courtney]

Gosh, I only noticed my weight when I went into middle school. Tomorrow is my last day of sixth grade, and there have been too many tears to count about my weight! The only reason is because of all the teeny tiny girls at school. UGH...But I do have curves and breasts! ^o^ I plan to run a mile everyday this summer. EXCEPT for Wednesdays (church) and when I bike ride, go over to my cousins, ect. ^____^ I do love myself because I am beautiful and my friends love me and think I look hawt. :D Also, my BMI is 23 and I am 5'3 and a half. I weigh 131.5. So, yup, healthy. It helps that there are big girls in my school so I don't feel the biggest. Even though that is mean... And some of the girls who go to my school look six, so POWER TO THE CURVES! xD

[Courtney]

Gosh, I only noticed my weight when I went into middle school. Tomorrow is my last day of sixth grade, and there have been too many tears to count about my weight! The only reason is because of all the teeny tiny girls at school. UGH...But I do have curves and breasts! ^o^ I plan to run a mile everyday this summer. EXCEPT for Wednesdays (church) and when I bike ride, go over to my cousins, ect. ^____^ I do love myself because I am beautiful and my friends love me and think I look hawt. :D Also, my BMI is 23 and I am 5'3 and a half. I weigh 131.5. So, yup, healthy. It helps that there are big girls in my school so I don't feel the biggest. Even though that is mean... And some of the girls who go to my school look six, so POWER TO THE CURVES! xD

[girl]

I'm annorexic and bullimic, and the deeper you sink, the harder it is to pull yourself out. I hate disappointing the people that love me; I'm frightened and don't want to get to the point where my eating disorders are more important than my friends, but I fear that I'm already there. x

[friomnna]

i know i'm big
i want to loose 30pound by prom in a year
i once sat by the toilet and almost made myself throw up.
i hate taking picture and looking at myself in the mirror.
My family ecspecailly my dad calls me fat,ugly i cried myself to sleep.
i have considered doing alot of thing to my slef
i try lossing wieght but i don't know

[woohoo]

and for all the girls thats like 10 n 12 please stop worrying you havent even become young adults. Just live your lifes go outside and play instead of staying in the house. Be more active youll be losing weight and not even realizing it because your having fun. And when your that yung the weight comes off like that it only gets harder as you get older

[woohoo]

o wow im watchin the david chappell show and he was just making a skit about loving ur body it was funny.
any wayyy i think im okay for my height im lik 5'8 or 5'7&1/2 and i'm 190 and 16. im supposed to be 160. last summer i tried to lose 15 pounds because i was 175 back then. Since ive gained more weight and my hips got bigger and i like my figure but im unhealthy =/ any who i wanna lose my belly but nothing else do u guys think i can lose weight w/o losing everything.

srry to ramble

[matt aka rex]

mehh....i am so freaking skinny ...-.- my gosh!! you dont know how bad i hate being skinny and i know i am skinny i need to gain weight im 5'11 a guy and i just weigh 134 pounds..you people dont know skinny nor fat..becuase i was fat in the past to.... when i was in the 8th i was 5'5 and 155 pounds..i was FAT I HAD 2 chins....girls..learn to deal with it..really..thats what i do.becuase a skinny person who is to skinny does not like the fact that they are skinny...they just hide it.. i hate being called skinny so much mehh..

[Ellie]

People, please tell me, am i fat? i am sure i am... i am 13 and i weigh 149lb, my bmi as 24. is that bad? i dont know what happenes cause i exercise, i am a vegetarian!!! Add me to tell me if i am fat, please people, it i smaking me depressed!! maybaby95@hotmail.co.uk

[Connie Mora]

Im 5'5" i have been all over the map from 6-13 i had been overwieght my highest at 13 was 174 i didnt want to be the fat girl anymore and had to do something about it i was so happy when i got to 130 but it didnt stop 125,120,115 till 105 pounds
obese to anorexic and ill tell you something whether you are 174 piunds or 105 u will never be happy until you accept yourself and realize its not the lack of body you have its the body you have thats beautiful.
Im happy and healthy at 118 pounds i like my body im thin with wide hips full chest long legs and small waist im not saying these things to put it in your face im just saying why i love my body.
And i think every girl should say 5 things they love about thier body next person who reads this put 5 things you love about your body or yourself in general :)

[Connie Mora]

Im 5'5" i have been all over the map from 6-13 i had been overwieght my highest at 13 was 174 i didnt want to be the fat girl anymore and had to do something about it i was so happy when i got to 130 but it didnt stop 125,120,115 till 105 pounds
obese to anorexic and ill tell you something whether you are 174 piunds or 105 u will never be happy until you accept yourself and realize its not the lack of body you have its the body you have thats beautiful.
Im happy and healthy at 118 pounds i like my body im thin with wide hips full chest long legs and small waist im not saying these things to put it in your face im just saying why i love my body.
And i think every girl should say 5 things they love about thier body next person who reads this put 5 things you love about your body or yourself in general :)

[Sara]

All through elementary school and middle school, I was thin. Then, through high school, I gained significant amounts of weight, peaking at a size thirteen my freshman year of college.

I started doing a Rocky Horror Picture Show cast in my town where I play the lead, Frank N. Furter (yeah, a girl Frank, weird :-P) and decided to lose weight.

I have since lost over thirty pounds in the past year and a half...mostly in the past eight months...and am wearing a size 6.

Even so, I still feel as though I could afford to lose some weight. I don't know. It might just be because of the skimpy clothing I wear in front of a paying audience on a weekly basis which magnifies any flaw. But all of my friends constantly say that I don't need to lose anymore weight.

[Georgie]

erm, okay, i hate my body as much as the next person... but, 12?!?!? when i was 12 i couldnt have cared less what i looked like... if my lil 13 year old sis complained about her weight i'd kick her! your not fat, and even if you were... heard of puppy fat? for god's sake! what is wrong with girls today...

[Kenny]

Thanks for making this and hopefuly saving other girls from anorexia. I was anorexic and lemme tell you it ant fun. I've puked and coughed up blood and passed out be4. I almost died once but my sister found me passed out on the floor and drove me to the hospital. I'm ok now but it took a lot of help and it was a horrible expirience, like, i'm crying right now just remembering it. anorexia is a horrible, ugly thing. I got it becuz my mom used to call me fat and tell me to diet and i did but i took it too far obviously. It becomes a habit and if you do eat after you haven't for a while it HURTS. It really fucked me up in school and now i'm really behind wen i wuz in the hospital. i really fucked up my body. Plz plz plz girls don't do this to yourselfs it's not a faze it's aweful. :(

[Tara]

This comic actually helped me. I am thin but I used to think my hips jut out weird and my colarbones stick out like crazy and i have quite tiny breasts.

And even though i don't actually think to myself "Wow, why can't i be like that?" i really kind of self-conscoiusly think it. like when i look in the mirror I imagine curves that aren't there and wish for breasts that aren't there either.

But i realize that no one really notices those small flaws if you don't point them out. And the world sees you as ou see yourself. :)

[janie]

You guys make me so angry!

You are all thin or at least healthy. Stop complaining about yourselves when there are real fat girls in the world: LIKE ME.

I am 5"3' or 5"4' amd weigh 198 lbs. Ok? Now go eat something and stop crying.

[stacey]

I'm 5'7 and i wiegh 141 lbs. i ask people if i am fat but they all say no and i dont believe them. i try to be happy with my body but i cant. i feel sad most of the time i exercise and eat healthy but i cant lose anything. i hate my body.

[unknown]

my weight as been going up and down lately. Some where in the beginning of this summer i just became 102 pounds. Then I gaine about 8 or less pounds in around august or september. and then i got sick and weighed 102 pounds again. then it went up to 106 pounds. is this suppose to be healthy? im 12 and im short. im 4 foot 10 right now. some people have called me skinny once. which is a lie. im not fat either. so what am i?

[Ladidadadida]

And the girl who's going to be 13 in March and is 5'6: YOU ARE SKINNY GIRL! YOU ARE PERFECT! YOU ARE TALL AND YOU ARE SKINNY AND YOU PROBABLY HAVE AWESOME LEGS! So please stop complaining and feeling insecure and comparing yourselves with other girls because you are completely owning the world with your perfectness! I really wish I was that weight and as tall as you.
Arrrrgh insecurity sucks. That's ONE thing that came out of Pandora's box the greeks forgot to mention. Now if this pep talk doesn't make you crush the world of insecure-but-perfectly-normal girls underfoot (providing you see it) than I don't know what will!!! My heartwarming speeches have stopped e-mail wars and grudges within minutes. Mostly email wars since my wit and heartwarmingness only shows itself virtualy since my brain is too slow in real life and there's no delete button. God, what is my problem with typing a lot.

[Ladidadadida]

Eurgh. Okay, so I've gained a lot of weight over the summer and haven't been skipping rope for an hour and going for a walk with my dad everyday. I went on a trip which took away my whole summer. So sue me.
Well, I remember at the beginning of the trip I weighed myself and I was an astounding 94lbs. I'm probably 4'9 or 5'1 w/e but that is so amazing for me. I'd usually trip between that and 110 pounds.
Than I went on the trip. When I came back my average is 120 pounds. The fattest girl in my group is 130. I so hope she's lying. I know that I do NOT look like that. But I'm worried I WILL become like that. I have started walking again, I'm too tired to skip but days we miss walking I DO skip, and I think I'm losing little by little weight.
Urrrrgh. My friends have even been avoiding to answer if I've gained weight.
And you know what's worse? Sometimes me and my dad get the Sliders series than Wade (skinny, short I admit, redhead) lies that she's a 100 pounds than admits she's 110. And she's a grown woman.
But I KNOW I will get back in shape, and this isn't just a NY resolution, it's tatooed to my tummy. My god why am I even telling you this? I'm spilling my guts to a complete stranger. Gawwd. I guess I'm saying it more to myself than to you. Ok I'll shut up now.

[Merima]

Ok now im 12 years old and i wigh 135 or 138 and im like 5'5 is that healthy or should i loose wieght?

[angel wit no wingz]

i am 12 going on 13 march...i am like 5'5 5'6 and i way 118...is that fat???? im confused ...sike nah i aint confused cuz i like the way i am and if you got a prob kiss it

[elizaborden]

I'M SICK OF ALL THE PEOPLE SAYING LOSING WEIGHT WILL GET A GUY! my boyfriend doesn't care what weight i am! but if i wanted to lose weight he'd probably support me. but eesh! guys who focus on your weight girls aren't worth your time!

[Blackstreak]

MAN!! u all think ur over weight... and im here saying i need to gain weight... im 14, 4 11' and 71 ounds... think abouthtat... so many ppl are going to say "i wish i had that weight" but trust me u dont. I am always treated like im 10 and also guys look at me and think in anerexic... and i dont blame them... i am a skinny FREAK! Seriously think about wat u want before u try to lose weight... or how much weight u waant to lose... because it can ruin ur relationships with alot of ppl.... TRUST ME!!

[janina]

hey i can deal with this too i was like 5'3 before and i used to weigh 150 pounds but with a ittle sacrifice diet and excersise i became 120 pounds at 5'4 now i consider myself sexy and i can flirt with anyguy i want know!

[fatpellychubbybutt]

i am soo much fatter! I am only 12 years onl and weight 354lbs!

[Martie]

Colliene,
RELAX!
Just be happy with your body! You MUST realize it could be a lot worse. I was 5 4' and at LEAST 100 pounds when i was 10 and i considered myself to be sexy. XD
But really, you are perfectly healthy and have nothing to worry about! Don't EVER be upset with that wieght at your hieght, alright? I'm now 5 7' and i weigh about 130, and i consider myself very sexy, so relax!
-Martie <3

[Key-Mon]

wow... i can DefiniTeLY relate to this... im about 5'1or2" and weigh about 120or130lbs. this is eXACTLY how i feel.. at first all my friends reassured me, and sometimes i felt better, and sometimes i didn't, it just depended on how i felt... but eventually my friends started thinking that i was relly annoying and one started telling me i was stupid and annoying and i just wanted attention, and started hitting me everytime i put myself down... needless to say, it got me to stop SAYinG badd things, but that doesnt mean i have bad days where i still think it...

[Cassandra]

wow I can totally relate to this comic I am all the time saying I am fat but almost all of my friends say that I'm not so I really don't know but the guys that I like all talk about me like I'm not even there and it hurts and it makes me feel so bad about myself that I have tried to starve myself before and I think I probably will again soon.

[Aleixs]

...
I like my wheight.
Sort of.
My secret? I don't weigh myself. I eat what I want, then if I have been eating to much junk for too long exercise it off. I'm way into jumping jacks.

In fact, a survey said that most girls who weight themselves on a regular basis, weigh more than girls who don't. Don't be uncomfortable with a number.

[Colliene]

Hi world, *lol* i am 10 soon to be 11. im am either 5'2 or 5'1 or 5'3 i forget, but anyway, i just stood on the scale and it said 100lb and i started to cry. Am i reely fat? all of my friends say im super tall and super skinny, but i dont if there lying. It pains me to see that 3 digit number, and now i wanna loose weight so badly. Not too much were i become Anorexic, But not to little that theres no improvemt. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SOMEONE LEAVE A COMMENT TO HELP ME PPLEASE. oh and by the way i do love fruit and i exersize at school but not home

[deviney]

I can totally relate to this. I always am complaing about my weight and every one tells me im not fat. so i have actually started saying that they are liars. Its totally stupid for me to say, but i never feel good about my weight.

[cassy]

im about 5'6 and i weigh around 160. could you tell me if thats overweight? i think im fatt. i try not to mention it to anyonee. and the people i do mention it too, say im not. i dont believe themm. i dont want to get into those crash diets, so i just try to exercise more. but i usually get exercising a bit everyday for a while, then i just stop. i dont know why. but i want to lose some of my weight.

[Jillie]

This comic makes me think so much about my friends. Most of them are skinny little bitches (who I love dearly) and when I hear them moan about how obese their 105 pound frame is, I lose it!

I am a 5'4", 190 lb 15-year-old and I'm okay with it. Sure I could stand to eat a tad healthier and get out more (don'tchu lay a hand on my Guitar Hero bruthah truckah), but I like the way I look when I dress in clothes that fit and am by no means the chunkiest of my pals, though the heaviest.

So, as I ramble (there's an end I promise), be happy with who you are. I (sorta) have an awesome boyfriend, am on the honor roll, have many friends and like who I am. Sometimes I wish I were thin, but c'est la vie. You can't spell 'awesome' without 'ME'.

Live and let live. :D

[Melissage!]

I am so sick of girls who are beautiful and not super skinny thinking that they need to be a size 00. I am 5'6 and i wear a size 16/18. And sure I have my moments where i feel FAT AS A COW, but I know that i am beautiful.I have been tortured because of my size. I have had my Face Photoshopped on to pictures of truly obese people that where put on MySpace, things tagged about me around my town, Flyers passed out with my face photoshop on the those obese bodies, even videos making fun of me. And the funny thing is... I am one of the most confident people out of all my friends. I know that no matter what size i am people will always find a flaw in me. I am not saying that everyone who is my size is confident, but i have found it in my self to realize that i human and i have many flaws. But if someone only problem with me is because i am fat then... they can F-off. "START A REVOLUTION STOP HATING YOU BODY!"

NO ONE IS IS 100% COMFORTABLE WITH THEIR BODY!

and just a little note yes i exercise and eat healthy...but i do love my junk food. I am only 16 for god sakes.
:D

[deb]

i feel this way all the time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!im 5'2 and i weigh 115 pounds.logically,im not overweight but i feel sooo fat.i used to be kinda chubby and i still feel like im that chubby little kid who was fat.i even got called fat a few times.and i cant get over it!!!!!!!!!!!

[maryanne20060]

i hav always ben 2 scared 2 ask if i am fat i mean sure im skinnier than all my other gurl friends but i aint actually skinny and b sides why ask wen i already no i am 8(

[DOPE+Y PRISCILLA]

WELL IM JUST NORMAL A LITLE FAT BUT I JUST DONT CARE ALOT YUST TRY YOUR BEST AND U WILL SEE THE BIG CHANGE

[jude :)]

I'm 5 foot 2 and i weight 121. My BMI thing says that I'm like perfect for my size, but i reallllly don't like the way i look. I eat good and exersize but i still have fat arms? I hate my arms and my tummy. and my boobs! They're gay and 39348759487 feet long. not really though but they look like it! I find looking in the mirror and telling myself im beautiful foreal helps when I'm frustrated with my body :) You just have to like learn to love yourself i guess? People notice it when your confident! Only dumb shallow ignorant people care about how you look (boys). But the people who don't care are the people who really matter! Not the people you feel are looking at you meanly or talking bad about you. Idk, i felt i should share how i feel :)

[meggannn]

omg. i feel the sameee WAYY! it amazes me. !
like seriouslyy if i ask some random person if im fat they say "hell no" and my friends and guys tell me im JUST RIGHT! i should be the happiest. ppl complain about being called aneriox. i would KILL for someone to call me that. i wannaa be skinny. im 5'2 and weigh 131 pounds. everyone says im fine. but what i see in the mirror is someone who drinks 7 sodas a day with 2 bags of chips. (you kno HUGE) i fit in a size one. but 3 fits me best. but then i moved to a size 5! now im fitting in 7's.
:// im gainin weight and i exersise 2 HOURS A DAY! and eat once a dayy and only drink water.
why do i have to be cursed ):
email me sometime fellow ppl who kno my pain.
myspace me;
http://www.myspace.com/yummy_lolippooppsss
email is kgloffner@yahoo.com (for myspace or yahhoo)

[madeleine atkinson]

i feel this way alot but my friends always say NO your preety but i always feel like they're lieing you might think thats stupid cause im only ten but i still feel really bad i mean i get alot of exersice and when im dancing people say i have the best thin body for dancing but deep inside i know they're right!

[madeleine atkinson]

i feel this way alot but my friends always say NO your preety but i always feel like they're lieing you might think thats stupid cause im only ten but i still feel really bad i mean i get alot of exersice and when im dancing people say i have the best thin body for dancing but deep inside i know they're right!

[Aa.]

I always feel like this and it doesn't help when im with my friends most days and when were all together i feel like im the biggest there because theyre all so skinny, but not horrible skinny and one of my friends allways says shes fat when she knows she isnt but shes jus saying it for attention sometimes. Loads of people tell me im that im skinny and got a great figure but i hate it and every day i tell myself im going to start a diet, starting today, but i never do... i give up too easy! Its really getting me down because im worried im going to loose my boyfriend over it.

[happysadblackgirl]

i totally agree with this.

like i ask my friends all the time, do i look fat? and they say no.
but i am fat, even though i'm like 5'9 and weigh 171 pounds that is still fat to me.
i have these rolls and i just really hate my body.
i have no ass for a black girl.
my stomach rolls over my pants a little.
i have like two fat rolls.
i am out of shape and i have never played a sport in my life.
while my friends are so pretty and athletic, i am like fat rolls fat rolls fat rolls.

and just last week, i promised myself i would start excercising and doing cardio and eating right.

but how can i eat right, when the house is full of junk food?

plus for the past week all i have been eating is is junk food.

am i not commited enough?

i just give up on things.

and when i see these pretty girls in seventeen with these damn hot bodies and cool clothes i just go crazy.

and my friends kinda rub it in my face that i have an ugly body and there is nothing i can say about hers because she has a rock hard body.

i just want to fit in with my friends really, and wear a two piece bathing suit.

[ariana]

this is so true. i never really thought about it that way but guys usually do use girls to fit a certain image theyre trying to hold. of course we have to try to maintain our figure because it usually helps our health to eat right, but as long as us girls stay healthy, theres nothing wrong with that.

[Anna]

That is sooo truee!! I think pretty much every girl has passed through it!! I have! and its terrible, cuz we see ourselves in such a way that nobody does...its all our imagination!! of course we have to care about our shape, but it DOES NOT mean to get obsessed wit it! really good comic!! love it!!

[crystal]

All you have to do is excrize.
My friend is only 11 and she ways 141 pounds thats fat

[heather]

go exercise and stop your crying.

[Betsy]

This is such a typical question with teen age girls. Some of them do something about it, like throw up, dont eat, do to much excersise, like me. And some of them jus say their fat n do nutin bout it. But to the gurls that do somethign about it, its not good for you. I wouldnt want my friends doing wat i do. When people tell me how skinny im, it makes me feel so good to have people think im skinny. If u ever call me fat i will start cryuing n run to the rest room. This has happen to me before, n the guy duh it will b funny to call me fat.Guys dont like really skinny gurlss, but ill rather be skinny then fat. if i have to die trying to be skiny i will.

[skyla]

im 11 and wiegh 105 lbs way over wieght im so fat

[worrier]

I weigh 8 and a half stone.
i think im fat.
but am i ?