Laura Rosell
1 min readNov 17, 2022

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Thank you for writing this piece. I hope the angry people read it and see the light you are shedding. It's so important for people to start rethinking the knee-jerk reaction they have to the word "fat" and the way society gaslights people about it.

I think there's an additional danger to this whole notion people are spewing that thin-looking people are not allowed to be concerned about fatness, and I hope you don't mind if I share something personal here: when I was an overweight woman — and prior to that, a non-overweight woman whose weight was mysteriously climbing — it was IMPOSSIBLE for me to get doctors to take me seriously about my weight concerns, and one endocrinologist's office even flat-out refused to see me because — get this — I wasn't "obese yet." All the same, all the doctors and specialists I did see were mystified at how I'd gained 25% of my long-term-"set-point" body weight within a few short years, without overeating, binge drinking, or having a blatantly obvious endocrine problem. In other words: something was wrong, but since I looked 'small enough,' it was hard to get the medical establishment to care.

Sometimes overweight people are healthy. Sometimes, on the other hand, excess weight does signify a health problem — and if we shame non-obese people for caring that the number on the scale is climbing, we are perpetuating a public-health disservice.

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Laura Rosell
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