On the contrary, I was a happy fat kid. Sure, I got snide comments from the boys that I was a ‘roly-poly’ and I was huge, plus I had a bout of acne when I was in secondary school. I wasn’t an extremely popular girl in a mixed school, but I simply didn’t care.
The only thing that truly annoyed me was how the PE Teachers would pick me on, insisting that I join the TAF club. Notwithstanding my size, I was a pretty decent runner but one day it got to a
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By Deborah Rowe
While most people struggle to lose weight and fit into smaller sizes, Berenice Seow faced the opposite.
Weighing in at 50kg for her 1.74m frame, many would look at her and think there’s nothing she needs to change about her body. In fact, most people fall prey to eating disorders because they want to be thin like Berenice.
The 26-year-old marketing executive however, became unhappy with herself and once, made a New Year’s resolution to
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I have always been a chubby kid, never known to be morbidly obese but was never slim. Back in the day when bubble tea and donuts first gained popularity (remember Quickly and Donut Factory?), I was one of the many teenage kids in queue almost every single day to buy me some yummy donuts and bubble teas. I recalled having two cups everyday and that craze went on for a really long time throughout my late secondary/poly days. That got me growing sideways over the years. Oh my love-hate
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It’s not a sad story you haven’t heard of before, but at least this one does have a happy ending…well actually, it’s still being written.
I grew up most of my life chubby, fat, husky, “big-boned” – we go by many names in the United States to help make kids and teenagers feel better. I was bullied often and it didn’t help that my name rhymes with things like HAM or SPAM.
At my worst, I weighed 188lbs (85kg) when I was about 16 years old
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I have been overweight the whole of my life (according to BMI). Since I was young, I was always the biggest and fattest in class and amongst my friends.
Once, there was a year-end performance at my kindergarten and I didn’t get to wear pretty dresses like the others because my school didn’t have my size. My friend’s mum then told me to lose weight. In fact, many people have been telling me my whole life to lose weight, until I became numb to these comments.
In Secondary
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