Thin privilege is being able to load a cart up with junk food and take it through the self checkout without anyone giving you a second glance.

I eat horribly, I’m terribly out of shape, but thanks to my metabolism I am still relatively slender and certainly benefit from thin privilege. Every once in a while I realize that I’m completely out of junk food, so I go and stock up, and tonight, for some reason, it hit me that the only reason I can do this without being at all self-conscious is because I don’t have to worry about being judged for it. People look at me and probably think I’m stocking up for a party, or else it’s that time of the month and I’m craving chocolate (which does happen to me a lot, admittedly). Meanwhile, any time I go out shopping with my best friend, who is fat (and beautiful, and a hell of a lot more strong than me because I’m almost positive I wouldn’t be able to handle what she goes through daily), we almost always get looks, and snide remarks about ‘are you sure you’ve got enough food in there?’ or 'shouldn’t you be stocking up on veggies instead?’

And every time it happens I want to say 'it’s none of your damn business’, but she would rather smile politely and just say 'No, thanks, we’ve got everything we need’, and I just hate that we live in a world where I can go and buy any amount of crap I want without judgment, but just because someone else might not have a perfect figure every single choice they make is subject to scrutiny and judgment calls.