It does not look, but it is gordofobia: 20 phrases that everyone says and thinks normal

It does not look, but it is gordofobia: 20 phrases that everyone says and thinks normal.

The great Colombian painter Fernando Botero said "I do not paint fat people, I try to express the volume as a part of the sensuality of art". Although it's nice to have curves, how often does the word "slim" seem to be more common than "hello" in our day-to-day vocabulary? How many times have you avoided eating something because you are "on a diet" and "do not want to get fat"? In our society, being fat is mocking and is intrinsically associated with being ugly or out of aesthetic standards, which makes it a real crime to have 10, 15 or 20 kg more.

Nowadays this reality has changed a lot, but we still have a lot of news from women who get into scabrous diets and are diagnosed with body dysmorphia, bulimia and anorexia. That's why we selected 20 phrases that anonymous and fat celebrities have heard in their daily lives and that need to be extracted already from their speech.

"For a fat person, until you are very active" People associate fat with laziness. I'm a woman of this size, but I work and move all day. People imagine that, because I'm fat, I'm lazy and relaxed. I have a hard time getting into gyms that have a fitness lifestyle because people treat you like lazy. When you have a skinny girl, the instructor says' let's go, force 'and when you're with a fat girl, say' oh, come on! Without laziness. Let's show service. ' Fabiana Karla (@fabianakarlareal), 43 years old, actress

"Para uma gorda, até que você come pouco"

"Gosto de ter onde pegar"

"Wow, you're thinner, you look better"It is a scrotal and aggressive phrase, which pretends not to be so because it causes beauty to be linked directly to thinness. As if there were a pattern to what is beautiful or what is right. It's as if a Barbie body was beautiful and the other bodies were not beautiful, when beauty is something plural. People of different types of bodies can be beautiful. Guilhermina Libanio (@guilherminalibanio), 25 years old, actress

"I will not eat such a thing so I do not get fat" [when told by a thin person] Whenever a skinny friend or friend says it or "our, I'm too fat," I correct. I see a lot of this type of commentary mainly from people who have a public life and who influence a lot in the lives of many people. I wonder how someone who is fat will feel, seeing a person who has a super body in the pattern calling himself fat. This only reinforces the self-image distortions that people in our society already have about themselves. It should not be a question of getting fat or not. It should not matter. Today, I have an understanding to know that the "beautiful body" they sell in advertisements and TV is not necessarily what is beautiful for me. I have tried to re-significate these concepts of beauty a lot and I think it should be a work of society as a whole, re-signifying what is considered beautiful. Leo Bahia (@leofbahia), 28 years old, actor

"Você não está gorda. Está fofinha"

"Infelizmente não temos o seu tamanho de roupa"

"Until, for your size, you find cool clothes and you're well dressed" People assume that fat people can not dress well, or 'you do not deserve to look pretty because you're going to be ugly anyway, so you try to put something nice on, right?' That always bothers me. I spent years buying clothes only in the United States (I still do) because there, in addition to having modern looks, most stores have more size and see us as normal people. Ana Paula, 46 years old, businesswoman

"Today I'm going to commit a fat one" [said by a skinny] A simple term that may seem without the least significance that, most of the time, is used by a person who does not suffer the daily bias of being fat. If you search social networks for #gordice, you will find more than 1 million publications between the lines reducing the capacity of fat people, associating them only with the act of eating wildly. It's time to stop associating a fat man with his emotional outbursts. That bothers!


Delidia Duarte (@delidiaduarte), 32 years old, actress

"Você consegue emagrecer sim. Só precisa de foco"

"Ele viu a beleza interior dela"

Wow, she dances pretty well and she does not look fat. " This sentence shows how much one can spend time judging and underestimating the other on behalf of the body. Even trying to impose limits and prejudiced judgments on what is and is accepted that I do or can do.


Thaís Carla (@thaiiscarlaoficial), 27 years old, dancer