I'm not naturally thin, in fact I work very hard to stay thin, but I have been targeted by people in similar ways. After all of my efforts to eat healthy and keep in shape people accuse me of not eating or being too skinny. I think the majority of the problem is this awful catty attitude women have to have about one another. If I'm a size 4 or a size 16 (and I have been both in my life) people will still make rude comments about my weight. There's no way to please everyone, so just worry about pleasing yourself.

Yourmum - you don't know that I have it easy. Try a bit of empathy.

R u girls done ^ ^

This is me down to the very last detail! I'm so skinny that when I wear a bikini I look anorexic. And I can't gain weight to save my life. I get criticized for being so skinny, like it's somehow my fault and it's so annoying because there really is nothing I can do about my weight. In fact, when I try and gain weight I end up losing more! I also can rarely find dresses that fit. Maxi dresses look like nightgowns and shorter dresses make me look like I'm 6!

my cousin is naturally slim and i am the exact opposite. so no matter how much i say i wanted to be like her, or no matter how much she says she wanted to be like me we don't understand each other. i have never been skinny, and she's never been fat. if you're naturally skinny or obese you don't understand the opposite, this is how it goes.

I look at these comments and they shock me. Why is it okay for people to call each other names based on weight PERIOD?!?!?! I don't care if you are fat and "jealous" as one poster put it, you never have the right to pick on someone just because they are different? Same for the other way around. What happened to butting out of other people's lives? If we should be mad and mean to anyone it's the media brain washing people into their own way of thinking. Don't blame the models for being skinny, blame the men (and a small percentage of women) at the top who run these companies and hire these models. I've read that the reason these "beauty" standards are enforced so that anorexia looks acceptable is because it is the last area where women are "controlled" by the patriarchy. Seriously think about that. Why else would starving yourself and feeling bad about yourself gain them? They sell more diet and cosmetic products and at the same time "put women in their place." This is why I avoid media that scrutenizes the body types of women like the plague. As a result I live a happier life.

this is soo true! i hate it when people are always making comments about my weight. everybodys always saying, "you need to eat more" "are you anorexic??". i HATEE it. im sorry, that i have a fast metabolism! trust me,, i eat sooo much! it doesnt make any difference. and im also sorrry causee i like my body exactly the way it is! :)

Yourmum - I would rather not be criticised at all for my size. Calling someone a toothpick or calling them fat - both mean.

i agree a lot with this article because i am naturally skinny too. it really is nerve cracking when u complain that u have lost weight and everybody gives you nasty looks. it does drives you crazy when u go shopping and since brands are making clothes bigger for bigger people (i'm not against this)you can't find anything fitting.there are still girls who are naturally really skinny and it is a nightmare trying to gain weight. for me it's almost impossible, i have only managed to gain 4 pounds in 6 months and i lost it past week i had my end of semester examinations. i think naturally skinny girls really get what it is like to struggle with clothing and dieting and people making low taste jokes about your body. we get what does fatty girls go through, even when we are in the exact oposite situation. so, when u meet a naturally skinny girl, be a reasonable person and don't tease her about it, she has no control of her metabolism at all.