BODY SHAMING SHOULD COME TO AN END

 

Body-shaming should come to an end.

It has been said most people do not understand what role is body-shaming playing in our daily lives as individuals. People have been igniting a stigma of how someone should look and weigh, so one gets body shamed for not meeting what people consider as a fit view.

Wikipedia defines body shaming as an action of humiliating someone by making critical comments about their body shape or size others criticize their appearance through a judgments or comparison to another person.

Weight shaming can threaten both psychological and physical health, extensive levels of body-shaming can have negative emotional effects, including a reduction in self-esteem and other issues such as eating disorders, anxiety, body dysmorphia and depression.

According to Body Shamed fitrated.com statistics keeps on increasing every year, 59% of people are reported to be dissatisfied with their body shape, and 66% expressed the desire to lose weight, while 46% are on diets. Body shaming does have a huge impact in our everyday lives.

Social media plays an important role in our lives, although it can cause a negative impact in someone else’s live. Most of the youth use’s image-based platform such as Facebook and Instagram which are high rate of body-shaming. Social media users often want self-image approval through this platforms and sometimes all they get is negative comments and critics which leads to negative self-image.

Body shaming is a serious problem that most teenagers face in their everyday lives; it’s hard for most of them to handle this social issue. A lot of this teenagers end up taking illegal drugs just to have perfect bodies and fit the society’s view.

Zama Sebakeng a young lady who is a student at Rosebank College said she was once a victim of body shaming and she feels that body shaming is very wrong “I have been body shamed before and honestly being body shamed once made me feel less beautiful and I had a low self-esteem. but now I do not care what the next person says about me. I am comfortable with my body so there is no need to feel bad anymore”  

Body shaming awareness should be raised especially in schools and in our communities people need to be taught that body shaming is dangerous and it is one of the social issues that affect most teenagers in our society. 

It is not easy to overcome body shaming but trying is a huge and amazing step to take doing affirmation that are positive self-talk is one of the step to take and focusing on what you like about yourself and always remembering that you are more than just your body.

Our brothers and sisters should not be determined by how overweight or underweight they are, we are all beautiful in different ways and no one has a right to make us feel less beautiful no body shape, size, or appearance is imperfect, we all have perfect body image.