y’all are way too weird about weight

my friend, who is about as petite as ariana grande, was measuring herself for prom. she then yelled “woo! i need to lose some weight! i’m turning into a medium. that CANNOT happen.”

i am a medium. i LOOK like a medium. she KNOWS i’m a medium. there was also another medium in the room and a 2XL.

this isn’t the first time she felt the need to say something like that. one that stuck with me was three years ago, IN THE MIDDLE OF MY ANOREXIA, she asked me what my favorite breakfast was. i told her a piece of toast with smashed up banana on the top. she scoffed and said “oh! that’s wayyyyyyyyyyy too many carbs for me!”

i’ve noticed on social media that a lot of teenage girls speak like this and they don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.

some of you genuinely have eating disorders and need to get it checked. cause wtf…

EDIT: some of you are completely missing my point. i understand that she clearly doesn’t have a good relationship with her body if she’s this fixated on bumping up one size. my problem is that she truly doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with the things she said, and a lot of other teenage girls online also think it’s fine. she’s made fun of anyone and everyone for eating a simple school lunch as she chugs down a protein shake in place of food. i understand that she is fighting her own battle but that doesn’t mean she gets to be a bad person. i don’t care what she’s going through, she doesn’t get to tell me that her biggest fear is looking like me.