I have always been a chubby girl since young and although people around me are trying to be supportive by saying “You’re not fat”, I felt like they didn’t understand me and I continued to feel really fat.

Recently, I had a week in my life where all I cared about were my thighs and everywhere I went I was afraid of my own reflection. I could hear so many condemning voices in my head saying that I was a failure because I have fat thighs at a young age when everyone else is looking their best.

I could never forget the constant depressive feeling and I don’t want to go back there again.

Now I’m in my final year in a design course and I’m very inspired to research deeper into body image issues, to understand and overcome it. It really is a silent killer but I feel we can do something about it.