Thin privilege is not being put on a diet by your mother at 8. It is not being made by her to do a half hour of aerobatics in the morning instead of having a tea break and a biscuit like the rest of the family. Not having to walk/run/jog 5km plus every afternoon after school and every morning before school. It is not being given laxatives by my mother at 10 years old to lose weight or to try and reduce my stomach for special occasions. Not being compared unfavorably to every thin person in your family, not having your photographs dissected with ‘look at this bulge and that lump’. Not having her tell me, as I stood there dressed for my formal (Australian prom) that I should have put more work in to losing weight because I might have looked pretty but it was too late now. It is not being told by your father that you walk like an elephant, your legs jiggle when you walk, and you are less loved by him because all his other daughters are thinner. Thin privilege is getting to eat full fat cheese and have potatoes like everyone else, not being forced to eat plastic fat reduced crap and steamed rice. Thin privilege is not being grilled by every member of your family on what you eat and how much you exercise and how much you weight when anyone else would be allowed to get offended and not answer and you have to just tell them because you’re fat and thus your body is everyone else’s property. Thin privilege is not being told by your mother that your dedicated partner of 8 years doesn’t find you attractive, will definitely leave you for someone thinner, doesn’t mean it when he says he loves me and thinks I’m sexy, and deserves to have sex with a thin person. Thin privilege is not being described by your father as 'a big heifer’. Thin privilege is not coming outside from calling a boy you like at the age of 14 and hearing your mother tell your father that she hopes it goes well because with how fat and ugly I am a boy liking me won’t ever happen again. Thin privilege is not having your mother tell you 'lose weight while you’re away at university or don’t come home’. It is not having to eat half a Snickers bar every second day to try and achieve this, and when you tell your mother that, and how it makes you so sick, she just says 'Good, keep it up’.

Thin privilege is being served first in stores. It is being able to go into a store and not be turned away because they don’t carry your size or they don’t want you to 'stretch their clothes trying them on’ (I cried in the dressing room of that store as my best friend fought to get me a dress to try on for my formal). Thin privilege is not being mailed your father’s prescription diuretics by your mother because maybe I’d lose weight by taking them.

Thin privilege is having tests done and getting checked out by doctors instead of hearing 'Oh, just lose weight’. I had a gall bladder infection that went undiagnosed because the doctor never touched me or ordered tests, but instead spent half an hour telling me I was fat and going to die. Thin privilege is when you have a bad reaction to an oral contraceptive that is causing rapid weight gain, you get taken off it. But for me? I got called a 'hysterical woman’ and told it was just me being lazy and eating too much, even though I told the Doctor how I was running 4 blocks a night and eating healthy. Thin privilege is not coming out to your mother as bisexual and being told 'you aren’t, you’re just jealous of attractive women, see it’s just because you’re fat’. It is not having very few childhood memories where you’re food intake wasn’t restricted, or someone wasn’t telling you how fat and ugly you are, or being told what to wear because you’ll look fatter.

Thin privilege is when you are at a sex toy party, and everyone is sharing stories, the whole room doesn’t stop talking to stare at you because you told one of yours, and you get told you must be exaggerating because you’re not attractive.

Thin privilege is eating out in public without people watching you and rolling their eyes, making faces, talking about your size. Thin privilege is when all your friends vote to get pizza and you ask to get something healthy and you aren’t ignored or laughed at. Thin privilege is being believed when you tell people you eat healthy.

Thin privilege is not being told by your employer that you’d probably be a better employee if you were thinner, and have I ever thought about how it makes me look like I don’t care about my job.