Why I Regret My Weight-Loss Surgery
"Losing weight wasn't the magic pill for self-love that I'd thought it would be."
By Leah Kinney,
Middle school was the first time I can remember actively hating my body. I constantly felt bigger than other girls, and that was when I learned my body was "bad." The girls who were quiet, small, and thin were praised as being beautiful, and I was none of those things. As a result, I started my first diet.
By high school, I not only hated my body, but I was also deeply ashamed of it. I saw how people treated me differently because of it—girls made catty comments and boys saw me as a sex object when I was thinner or ignored me when I was heavier. Yet I still kept trying to be the "ideal" woman that society told me I was supposed to be. I don't even remember how many diets I'd done by the time I graduated.
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