Body Shaming

It's been a week since the pictures of Rihanna from Crop Over Festival have been seen by the majority of the globe and yet they are still the talk of social media with more and more people  noticing and commenting on her weight gain or what people are now calling "thicc". Whether it's a good or bad thing, why should it matter.

Many people are praising this, and so they should be, where as others have been body shaming, one comment says "you are fat but it ok"! We're in 2017 and this is still a thing? it's honestly quite sad that people have time to even comment on such as thing let alone humiliate someone by critically commenting on someone else body shape or size. Who gave anyone the right to do that?.

It's nasty comments that mimic reality; a recent survey revealed that 94% of teenagers in America have been body shamed, and that only one in seven  people asked have felt truly "body positive". The way we discuss famous bodies has a toxic effect on the way we discuss our own. Kids as young as 5 even feel that they are 'fat', isn't it sad that someone as young as that feels that way?