I was bullied throughout the time I was in kindergarten up to Primary 6. I was called names like “Pig”, “Chicken” and “Fat Cow”, yet in reality, I was not really that fat at all. I was neither overweight nor close to being overweight; I was merely somewhat plump with baby fats. However, because of the words that labelled me, for years I truly believed I was fat and ugly and therefore, did not deserve friends or to be loved.
It was not just words.
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I grew up as a small-sized girl and weight image issues barely bugged me until I was 19. I went to Australia to study in 2007 and gained 13kg in a year because I didn’t know better – I didn’t exercise and I ate as the natives ate. When I came back to Singapore two years later, all my friends started telling me I was fat and that I resembled a ball. Desperate to lose weight, I tried different diet plans, including diet pills and many crash diets. In the end, my weight
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A former volleyball player in school, Bernice Lim thought she could eat whatever she wanted to, so long as she was doing some form of exercise. She would upsize her meals at McDonald’s and feast on junk food. As a result, she started to gain weight despite training regularly.
Her friends in secondary school started bullying her and calling her names like ‘Fat Bunny’ and ‘Fatty Fatty Bom Bom’, making her feel defeated and inferior about herself. Bernice began to
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Jazzy (short for Jasmine) Tasdelen is probably more active than three-quarters of the population – she sees her Personal Trainer five times a week doing weights, cardio and high intensity interval training. She also swims and runs. On top of that, she eats a healthy diet with the help of a nutritionist.
However, the 33-year-old digital marketing manager struggles every day with her weight due to certain medical conditions and it doesn’t help that society is quick
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Looking at Megan Yit’s petite frame and toned physique, you’d find it hard to believe she ever struggled to look at herself in the mirror. All it took was just one nasty comment directed at her as a teen that left the 19-year-old feeling insecure about herself and her body.
“There was a girl in school, who was a year older than me, who called me ‘short, stubby and fat’. Because she said that, every other comment that came after that made me very sensitive to
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