Something that I hear occasionally when it comes to fat acceptance is that “no one is born fat”. Actually, I was. I was in the 96th percentile for body weight when I was born, even though I wasn’t especially tall. So yes, I was born fat and I still am. It’s almost like I was meant to be big!

And to all the fatphobes who will now claim that my mother was probably “morbidly obese” and behaved “unhealthily”, while she was pregnant with me: she has been a size 10/12 as long as I can remember. (And even if she would have been a size 46, it would be none of your business, of course.)

(not a native speaker, feel free to correct my English)

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A lot of these arguments about being born fat also ignore that bodies develop as they grow. No one is born tall either, otherwise we would be having 6 ft babies walking around. People grow and develop into the body type that their genes dictate, yes enviornment can also impact that but saying no one is born fat goes against all the science that discusses how genes dictate body size. Even being born as a fat baby doesn’t mean you will be a fat adult. Using that as an example of why fatness is unnatural is incredibly ignorant.

-FBP