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Jessica Rowe: Why is fat ok but not thin?

Calling a person ‘fat’ is considered the height of rudeness. So why, Jessica Rowe asks, is it acceptable to openly scorn people who are naturally thin?
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In an interview published in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly, Jessica speaks about the rise in “skinny-shaming”, where people who are naturally slender are assumed to be suffering from an eating disorder.

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More than once, Jessica has been “lining up at the supermarket checkout when a woman behind me decides to pass judgement – ‘Oh, you’re awfully thin, aren’t you? Do you eat?’

“Why do I feel I have to justify my size to a complete stranger? Why am I so meek, mild and polite to this member of the body police?”

Read more of this story in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.

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