Thin privilege is not having your family feel so comfortable fat shaming you that they talk about you when you’re not around, or like you’re not around, and then relay the conversation to you.

The other night my mother was on the phone with my aunt.

Now, let me just say for the record, my whole family is fat.

My aunt told my mother that she and I needed to go on a date, her unsolicited advice, though she herself is fat and considers herself to have healthy eating habits. She said we needed to diet so we weren’t “unhealthy.”

This while I was nowhere near them.

Soon after, I was in the same room and they discussed a dress my mother got me recently.

The discussion surrounded the dress being too short for me to wear, you could see my thighs, it was bad for me to wear it. I had to make sure to wear it with leggings or shorts, anything so as NOT to show my legs/thighs.

I made it clear that next time I wear the dress, I’m not wearing either, and I’ll make sure to take tons of pictures for them. I will wear what I want the way I want.